Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union
The Order of Honor ( Russian орден "Знак Почёта" ) was a high state award ( badge of honor ) of the Soviet Union .
The award was donated on November 25, 1935 for civil service. On August 22, 1988, the award was renamed the "Order of Honor" (орден Почёта). By 1991 the medal had been awarded more than 1.5 million times.
The award has also been presented several times, both to domestic and foreign individuals and to business enterprises.
Carrier (selection)
- Sinaida Amossowa (* 1950), cross-country skier, since 1976
- Nikolai Anikin (1932–2009), cross-country skier, since 1957
- Suleichan Bagalowa (born 1945), actress
- Wadim Bakatin (* 1937), Lieutenant General in the Soviet Army
- Vladimir Bogomolov (1926-2003), writer
- Isaak Dunajewski (1900–1955), composer
- Nijasbei Djapschipa (1927–1993), football player
- Michail Fadejew (* 1925), hydraulic engineer
- Konstantin Feoktistow (1926–2009), spaceman, since 1974
- Vyacheslav Fetissov (* 1958), Minister of Sports and ice hockey player
- Mikhail Gorbachev (* 1931), politician
- Viktor Hambarzumjan (1908–1996), astrophysicist and astronomer
- Valentin Ivanov (1934–2011), football player and coach
- Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007), politician
- Otar Kalandarishvili (1925–2003), architect
- Vyacheslav Karasev (1916-2006)
- Pawel Kolchin (1930–2010), cross-country skier, since 1970
- Sergei Koroljow (1907–1966), aerospace engineer
- Leonid Kostin (* 1922), politician
- Galina Kulakowa (* 1942), cross-country skier
- Viktor Kuskin (1940–2008), ice hockey player
- Imants Lancmanis (* 1941), Latvian art historian and museum director
- Larissa Latynina (* 1934), artistic gymnast
- Alexander Leipunski (1903–1972), nuclear physicist
- Vladimir Luttschenko (born 1949), ice hockey player
- Boris Majorow (* 1938), ice hockey player
- Alexander Malzew (* 1949), ice hockey player
- Yuri Masljukow (1937–2010), politician and armaments engineer
- Valentina Matviyenko (* 1949), politician
- Wera Muchina (1889–1953), sculptor
- Anna Myrejewa (1930–2012), philologist, translator and university lecturer
- Pitirim von Wolokolamsk and Jurjew (1926–2003), clergy
- Vladimir Putin (* 1952), KGB official, later a politician
- Alexander Ragulin (1941–2004), ice hockey player
- Lyudmila Rudenko (1904–1986), chess player, since 1957
- Sergei Saweljew (1948–2005), cross-country skier, since 1978
- Pyotr Shirschow (1905–1953), politician, scientist
- Zurab Sotkilava (1937-2017), singer
- Vera Strojewa (1903–1991), film director and screenwriter
- Pavel Sukhoi (1895–1975), aircraft designer
- Fyodor Terentjew (1925–1963), cross-country skier, since 1957
- Nikolai Tscheboksarow (1907–1980), ethnographer, anthropologist
- Siegfried Körner , Counselor of the GDR in the USSR (since 1988)