Order of the Badge of Honor
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The Order of the Badge of Honour was a civilian award of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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It was instituted on 25 November 1935 and conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in production, scientific research and social, cultural and other forms of social activity, for promotion of economic, scientific, technological, cultural and other ties between the USSR and other countries and also for significant contribution to basic and applied research.

In total the order was awarded 1,574,368 times.

The Order of the Badge of Honour was replaced by Order of Honour , established by a Decree of the Presidium of the USSR on 28 December 1988. Later, following the USSR dissulution, it was replaced by the Order of Honour of the Russian Federation, established by the President's Decree of №442 of 2 March 1994.

Notable recipients

  • Vadim Bakatin
    Vadim Bakatin
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  • Vasili Blokhin
    Vasili Blokhin
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  • Vladimir Bogomolov
    Vladimir Bogomolov
    Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov was a Soviet writer.When Bogomolov was still in school the Soviet Union was drawn into World War II. He joined the Army after completing only seven grades. He started the war as a private; when the war was over, he had a company under his command. He was wounded and...

  • Ivan Dubasov
    Ivan Dubasov
    Ivan Ivanovich Dubasov was a Russian artist active in the Soviet Union. He was the head artist of the Goznak from 1932 to 1971 and was made an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1959. He developed sketches and designs for multiple Soviet banknotes, stamps, orders, medals, awards and decorations over...

  • Alaksandar Dubko
    Alaksandar Dubko
    Alaksandar Dubko was the former chairman of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee. In 1994, he was a candidate for President of Belarus. He also served in the Belarus SSR Supreme Soviet and the USSR Supreme Soviet...

  • Viacheslav Fetisov
    Viacheslav Fetisov
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

  • Ivan Kalita
    Ivan Kalita (equestrian)
    Ivan Aleksandrovich Kalita was a Soviet equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Kalita is the oldest Olympic participant from USSR .-References:...

  • Oleg Kalugin
    Oleg Kalugin
    Oleg Danilovich Kalugin , is a former KGB general. He was a longtime head of KGB operations in the United States and later a critic of the agency.-Early life and the KGB career:...

  • Shavarsh Karapetyan
    Shavarsh Karapetyan
    Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Yerevan reservoir....

  • Sergey Korolyov
    Sergey Korolyov
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  • Galina Kulakova
    Galina Kulakova
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  • Viktor Kuzkin
  • Valentin Ivanov
  • Larisa Latynina
  • Vladimir Lutchenko
    Vladimir Lutchenko
    Vladimir Yakovlevich Lutchenko is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1970-External links:...

  • Aleksandr Maltsev
    Aleksandr Maltsev
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  • Boris Mayorov
    Boris Mayorov
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  • Natalya Meklin
  • Alexander Ragulin
    Alexander Ragulin
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  • Vitali Smirnov
    Vitali Smirnov
    Vitali Smirnov is a Russian member of the International Olympic Committee. He has been a member since 1971.-Career:1970—1975 — First Vice-Minister of Sport of the USSR;1981—1990 — Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation...

  • Pavel Sukhoi
    Pavel Sukhoi
    Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi was a Soviet aerospace engineer. He designed the Sukhoi military aircraft and founded the Sukhoi Design Bureau. -Biography:...

  • Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

  • Zulfi Hajiyev
    Zulfi Hajiyev
    Zulfi Hajiyev Saleh oglu was Member of Azerbaijani Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan until his death on November 20, 1991.-Early years:Hajiyev was born in Bol’shaya Mazra village of Armenia in 1935...


See also

  • Order of Honour (Russian Federation)
  • Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union
    Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union
    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 still...

  • Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation
    Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation
    The award system of the Russian Federation has varied and distinct origins. The first being pre-1917 orders of the Russian Empire re-established after 1991. The second is from former Soviet orders that were slightly modified and kept after the USSR's collapse...

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