People's Teacher of the USSR (russian: Народный учитель СССР) was an honorary title granted to

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s of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

; it was established on 30 December 1977. Following the

Dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

(1990) the title was modified to '' National Teacher of the Russian Federation''. The title was conferred, to teachers of Soviet

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or vocational schools and also to civil servants employed by educational institutions, for worthwhile contributions to the national education system and mainly in teaching

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

to children and young people. It was bestowed owing proposals addressed by the USSR Education Department or by the National Education Committee; together with the medal a diploma of the

Supreme Soviet The Supreme Soviet (russian: Верховный Совет, Verkhovny Sovet, Supreme Council) was the common name for the legislative bodies (parliaments) of the Soviet socialist republics (SSR) in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...

's presidency was given to the awarded people.

Design

The medal has a circular shape and its

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is 30 mm. The central part of the front side is occupied by an open book and a torch encircled by the inscription "Народный учитель СССР" (''People's Teacher of the USSR'') and, above, two bay laurel branches and the

hammer and sickle The hammer and sickle (Unicode: "☭") zh, s=锤子和镰刀, p=Chuízi hé liándāo or zh, s=镰刀锤子, p=Liándāo chuízi, labels=no is a symbol meant to represent proletarian solidarity, a union between agricultural and industri ...

symbol. On the verso appears the inscription ''Народный учитель СССР — гордость советского общества (People's Teacher of the USSR – Pride of sovietic society).'' Symbols and inscriptions are embossed, with convex letters. The medal was suspended to a single red silk fringe (18 mm x 21 mm) which was attached to the suit by a needle.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:People's Teacher Of The USSR Honorary titles of the Soviet Union Civil awards and decorations of the Soviet Union Awards established in 1977 Education awards 1977 establishments in the Soviet Union Education in the Soviet Union

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