The Order of the Badge of Honour () was a civilian award of the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in sports, 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" () 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

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

, 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 *

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 s ...

* Araxie Babayan * Vadim Bakatin * Fyokla Bezzubova * Vasili Blokhin * Evdokia Bobyleva * Oleg Bogomolov * Mariya Borodayevskaya * Volodymyr Boyko * Boris Dobrodeev * Ivan Dubasov * Alaksandar Dubko * Kim Pen Hwa * Faina Kotkowa *

Viacheslav Fetisov Viacheslav Alexandrovich "Slava" Fetisov State Duma, MP (; born 20 April 1958) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman, coach, politician and sports official. He played for HC CSKA Moscow for 13 seasons before joining the National ...

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

* Niko Gotsiridze * Anna Haava *

Zulfi Hajiyev Zulfi Hajiyev Saleh oglu (; 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 of Armenia in 1935. Until 1989, ...

Yaroslav Halan Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan (, party nickname ''Comrade Yaga''; 27 July 1902 – 24 October 1949) was a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukrainian writer, playwright, and publicist. A member of the Communist Party of Western Ukra ...

* Rufina IsakovaИсакова, Руфина Афанасьевна
// Казахстан. Национальная энциклопедия. — Алматы: Қазақ энциклопедиясы, 2005. — Т. II. — ISBN 9965-9746-3-2. * Kasymaly Jantöshev * Ivan Kalita *

Oleg Kalugin Oleg Danilovich Kalugin (; 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 operations in the United States and later a critic of ...

* Shavarsh Karapetyan * Klaudia Sergejewna Kildisheva *

Sergey Korolyov Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He invented the R-7 Rocket, Sputnik 1, and w ...

* Galina Kulakova * Aleksandr Kurlovich * Viktor Kuzkin * Valentin Ivanov * Heli Lääts *

Larisa Latynina Larisa Semyonovna Latynina (, née Diriy, Дирий; born 27 December 1934) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. Between 1956 and 1964 she won 14 List of multiple Olympic medalists, individual Olympic medals and four team medals for the Sovie ...

* Vladimir Lutchenko * Aleksandr Maltsev * Leila Mardanshina * Boris Mayorov * Natalya Meklin * Natalya Melik Melikyan * Mark Midler * Mariya Orlyk * Alexander Ragulin * Vladimir Rvachev * Anatoliy Smirnov * Vitali Smirnov * Pavel Sukhoi * Amet-khan Sultan * Gunsyn Tsydenova * Tankho Israelov * Alina Vedmid *

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...

* Sorojon Yusufova * Igor Ursov * Shakirat Utegaziyev * Dimitri Venediktov * Valery Khodemchuk * Nina Viktorovna Pigulevskaya * Eliso Virsaladze * Alexander Aslanikashvili * Oleksandr Mykolayovych Kovalenko * Igor Zotikov * Alexey Dobryden

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Notable recipients

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