The title Hero of Turkmenistan () is a state award of

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...

. It was first awarded in 1992 and was awarded for service to the implementation of domestic and foreign policy.

History

The title of Hero of Turkmenistan was established by the Law of Turkmenistan "On establishing the highest degree of distinction - the title of Hero of Turkmenistan" adopted by the Mejlis of Turkmenistan on 30 September 1992. The law of Turkmenistan dated 27 December 1995 No. 101-1 approved the new edition of the "Regulation on the title of Hero of Turkmenistan". The next version of the regulation was approved by the Law of Turkmenistan of 28 February 2015.

Recipients

President Saparmurat Niyazov has been awarded the title the most: 30 September 1992, 27 December 1995, 17 July 1998, 25 October 1999, 18 February 2000, 19 October 2001. Other recipients include the following: *

Atamyrat Niyazov Atamyrat Niyazov (; born 1912 in Gypjak, Transcaspian Oblast, Russian Empire; died 24 December 1942 in Chikola, North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union) was a soldier in the Red Army during World War II from the Soviet ...

(4 May 1992) * Myratberdi Sopyev (2001) * Sadulla Rozmetov (2001) * Gedai Akhmetov (2001) * Saparmamed Valiev (2001) * Sapysh Cherkezov (2001) *

Gurbansoltan Eje Gurbansoltan Eje ("Mother of Gurbansoltan"; born 1913 in Gypjak, Turkmenistan; died 6 October 1948 in Ashgabat during the 1948 Ashgabat earthquake) was the mother of Turkmenistan's first post-Soviet president Saparmurat Niyazov ("Türkmenbaşy") ...

(5 July 2002) * Maya Kuliyeva (27 October 2008) *

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow Gurbanguly Mälikgulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow (born 29 June 1957), also known as Arkadag (Cyrillic: Аркадаг, "protector"), is a Turkmen politician who served as the second president of Turkmenistan from 2006 to 2022. A dentist by profe ...

(25 October 2011) * Oleg Kononenko (25 September 2019) *

Aksoltan Ataýewa Aksoltan Töräýewna Ataýewa (born 6 November 1944) is a Turkmen politician who has served as the permanent representative of Turkmenistan to the United Nations since 23 February 1995. As of 2019, she is the most senior permanent representati ...

(25 September 2019) * Çynar Rustemowa (25 September 2021) In 2000, by means of a special resolution of President Niyazov, all Turkmen soldiers who died in the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

fighting with the

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were declared heroes of Turkmenistan.

References

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