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Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union are decorations from the former Soviet Union that recognised achievements and personal accomplishments, both military and civilian. Some of the awards, decorations, and orders were discontinued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union , while others are still issued by the Russian Federation as of 2024.
Lists of Heroes of the Soviet Union cover people or groups of people who were given the Hero of the Soviet Union award, the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. The lists are organized alphabetically, by nationality or ethnicity, and by other criteria.
The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction of the Soviet Union. It was awarded 12,775 times. It was awarded 12,775 times. Due to the large size of the list, it has been broken up into multiple pages.
This article is a list of Badges and decorations of the Soviet Union. They were awarded primarily for military service, but also for sports, graduation and community participation. The badges were not only given to award service or achievement, but to inspire loyalty and patriotism to the Soviet regime.
This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Hero of the Soviet Union. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients. Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest honorary title in the Soviet Union and awarded over 12,700 times.
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
The award systems of parallel Soviet states soon followed and they also created and issued awards of their own, mainly in a similar style to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In 1924, the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics started to award all-union Orders and within a decade all the Orders of member republics had ceased to be ...
After his release from serving a 20-year sentence in a Mexican prison for the assassination of Leon Trotsky, Ramón Mercader moved to the Soviet Union in 1961 and as Ramon Lopez [15] was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Hero of the Soviet Union medal "for the special deed" by KGB head Alexander Shelepin. [citation needed]