Name | Description | Award Recipients | Date Announced | ||
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Highest decoration awarded by the soviet union | |||||
an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, health, social and other spheres of labour activities | December 28, 1920 | ||||
Heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War, later awarded to all surviving veterans of the war. | May 20, 1942 | ||||
one of the highest prizes for citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in science and technology, military knowledge, literature and art | December 20, 1939 | ||||
military decoration of the Soviet Union |