Name | Description | Award Recipients | Date Announced | ||
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Highest decoration awarded by the soviet union | |||||
The Order of the Patriotic War is an image of a convex five-pointed star covered with ruby-red enamel against the background of rays diverging in the form of a five-pointed polished star, the ends of which are placed between the ends of the red star. | |||||
The Order of the Red Banner was the first Soviet military decoration. | August 1, 1924 | ||||
The medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was established by the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces on May 9, 1945. The authors of the medal are artists I. Ya. Romanov and I. K. Andrianov. | May 9, 1945 | ||||