The Order of the Badge of Honour (russian: орден «Знак Почёта», orden "Znak Pochyota") was a civilian award of the

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. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was 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. The order was awarded 1,574,368 times. The "Order of the Badge of Honour" was replaced by the "Order of Honour" (russian: Орден Почёта) by a Decree of the Presidium of the USSR on 28 December 1988. Following the USSR dissolution, it was replaced by the " Order of Honour" of the

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, established by Presidential Decree no. 442 of 2 March 1994.Ельцин, Б.Н. (2 марта 1993 г.)
"Указ Президента Россиийской Федерации о госудаственных наградах Российской Федерации"

Notable recipients

Alisa Aksyonova Alisa Ivanovna Aksyonova (russian: Алиса Ивановна Аксёнова; born 13 March 1931) is a Soviet and Russian museum director who was the permanent director of the between 1960 and 2010 and served as its director-general 2010 to 20 ...

Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (born 31 May 1948) is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suf ...

Araxie Babayan Araxie Tovmasovna Babayan (arm., Բաբայան Արաքսի Թովմասի, 5 May 1906, Yerevan – 13 February 1993, Yerevan) was a Soviet and Armenian Organic chemistry, organic chemist. Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Armenian ...

Vadim Bakatin Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (russian: link=no, Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He was the last surviving former chairma ...

* Fyokla Bezzubova * Vasili Blokhin * Evdokia Bobyleva * Oleg Bogomolov *

Mariya Borodayevskaya Mariya Borisovna Borodaevskaya, née Kessenikh (9 December 1911, Tbilisi – 11 November 1994, Moscow) was a doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor, specialist in gold and copper deposits. She was an Honored Worker of Science ...

* Boris Dobrodeev *

Ivan Dubasov Ivan Ivanovich Dubasov (russian: Иван Иванович Дубасов) (30 November 1897, Odintsovo, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire – 15 March 1988, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR) was a Russian artist active in the Soviet Union. He was th ...

Alaksandar Dubko Alaksandar Iosifovich Dubko ( be, Аляксандар Іосіфавіч Дубко, russian: Александр Иосифович Дубко; January 14, 1938 – February 4, 2001) was the former chairman of the Grodno Regional Executive Committ ...

Kim Pen Hwa Kim Pen Hwa (russian: Ким Пён Хва, ko, 김병화; – 7 May 1974) was the chairman of the collective farm 'Polyarnaya Zvezda' in the Uzbek SSR and twice Hero of Socialist Labour. Early life Kim was born into a Korean peasant family ...

Faina Kotkowa Faina Vasilyevna Kotkova (; 6 April 1933, Vyazniki – 4 June 2020, Vyazniki) was a Soviet and Russian weaver and labour leader. She was invested with the Order of the Badge of Honour in 1966, the Order of the October Revolution in 1971, the Ord ...

Viacheslav Fetisov Viacheslav Alexandrovich "Slava" Fetisov (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Фетисов, ''Vjačeslav Aleksandrovič Fetisov''; born 20 April 1958) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for HC CSK ...

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

Anna Haava Anna Haava (born Anna Rosalie Haavakivi; 15 October 1864 – 13 March 1957) was an Estonian poet, writer and translator in the late 19th and 20th centuries. She was one of the founding members of the Estonian Writers' Union in 1922. She was honour ...

Zulfi Hajiyev Zulfi Hajiyev Saleh oglu ( az, Zülfü Hacıyev Saleh oğlu; 1935 – 1991) was Member of Azerbaijani Parliament and Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan until his death on 20 November 1991. Early years Hajiyev was born in Böyük Mazra village ...

Yaroslav Halan '' , pseudonym = Comrade Yaga, Volodymyr Rosovych, Ihor Semeniuk , birth_date = , birth_place = Dynów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) , death_date = , death_place = Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) , resting_place ...

Rufina Isakova Rufina Afanasyevna Isakova (23 June 1924 - 2016) was a Soviet and Kazakh scientist, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1971), professor (1971), academic of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences (2003), and an Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1977). ...

Исакова, Руфина Афанасьевна
// Казахстан. Национальная энциклопедия. — Алматы: Қазақ энциклопедиясы, 2005. — Т. II. — ISBN 9965-9746-3-2. *

Kasymaly Jantöshev Kasymaly Jantöshev (; 15 September 1904 – 13 August 1968) was a Kyrgyz writer and playwright. Jantöshev is regarded as one of the most important Kyrgyz writers, and is considered to be one of the founders of Kyrgyz drama and theatre. Many o ...

Ivan Kalita Iván I Danilovich Kalitá (Russian: Ива́н I Данилович Калита́; 1 November 1288 – 31 March 1340 or 1341Basil Dmytryshyn, ''Medieval Russia:A source book, 850-1700'', (Academic International Press, 2000), 194.) was Grand Du ...

Oleg Kalugin Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (russian: Олег Данилович Калугин; born 6 September 1934) is a former KGB general (stripped of his rank and awards by a Russian Court decision in 2002). He was during a time, head of KGB political ope ...

Shavarsh Karapetyan Shavarsh Vladimiri (Vladimirovich)Minor Pl ...

* Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva *

Sergey Korolyov Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (russian: Сергей Павлович Королёв, Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ kərɐˈlʲɵf, Ru-Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.ogg; ukr, Сергій Павлович Корольов, ...

Galina Kulakova Galina Alexeyevna Kulakova (russian: Галина Алексеевна Кулакова, born 29 April 1942) is a Soviet former cross-country skier, arguably the best skier on distances shorter than 10 km in the early 1970s. She won four Ol ...

Aleksandr Kurlovich Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kurlovich (russian: Александр Николаевич Курлович, English Alternate: ''Alexander Kurlovich'', 28 July 1961 – 6 April 2018

Viktor Kuzkin Viktor Grigorievich Kuzkin (July 6, 1940 – June 24, 2008) was an ice hockey defender 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 1963. He ...

* Valentin Ivanov *

Larisa Latynina Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (russian: link=yes, Лариса Семёновна Латынина, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a former Soviet artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 individual Olympic medals and ...

Vladimir Lutchenko Vladimir Yakovlevich Lutchenko (born January 2, 1949 in Ramenskoye, Soviet Union) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. Lutchenko played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hal ...

Aleksandr Maltsev Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

Leila Mardanshina Leila Hanipovna Mardanshina (russian: Ляйла Ханиповна Марданшина; 15 May 1927 – 10 September 2017) was a Soviet and Russian oil and gas operator who worked at the No. 2 oil field of the Tuimazaneft Oil Production Departm ...

Boris Mayorov Boris Aleksandrovich Mayorov (born February 11, 1938, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Spartak Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame ...

Natalya Meklin , image = Natalya Meklin, portrait.jpg , alt = Portrait photograph of Meklin in uniform wearing one Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, an order of the Patriotic War, and a campaign medal , birth_date = , ...

* Natalya Melik Melikyan *

Mark Midler Mark Petrovich Midler (russian: Марк Петрович Мидлер; 24 September 1931 – 31 May 2012) was a Soviet Russian foil fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games, and won two gold medals. Early and personal life Midler was b ...

* Mariya Orlyk * Alexander Ragulin *

Vladimir Rvachev Vladimir Logvinovich Rvachev, ( uk, Рвачов Володимир Логвинович, russian: Влади́мир Логвинович Рвачёв); 21 October, 1926 (Chyhyryn, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) - 26 April, 2005 (Kharkiv, Uk ...

* Anatoliy Smirnov * Vitali Smirnov *

Pavel Sukhoi Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi (russian: Па́вел О́сипович Сухо́й; be, Па́вел Во́сіпавіч Сухі́, ''Paviel Vosipavič Suchi''; 2 July 1895 – 15 September 1975) was a Soviet aerospace engineer and aircraft design ...

Amet-khan Sultan Amet-khan Sultan (Crimean Tatar language, Crimean Tatar: Amet-Han Sultan, Амет-Хан Султан, احمدخان سلطان; Russian language, Russian: Амет-Хан Султан; 20 October 1920 – 1 February 1971) was a highly decorated ...

* Tankho Israelov * Alina Vedmid *

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

* Sorojon Yusufova * Igor Ursov * Shakirat Utegaziyev * Dimitri Venediktov *

Valery Khodemchuk Valery Ilyich Khodemchuk ( uk, Валерій Ілліч Ходемчук; russian: Валерий Ильич Ходемчук; 24 March 195126 April 1986) was a Soviet engineer who was the night shift circulating pump operator at the Chernobyl ...

* Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaya * Eliso Virsaladze * Alexander Aslanikashvili

References

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Notable recipients

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