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The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest national order of the Soviet Union. The Order was bestowed for the following: Image File history File links Order of Lenin badge From http://communis. ... Image File history File links Ribbon bar for the Soviet decoration Order of Lenin. ... Red October redirects here. ... An Order is a decoration, awarded by a government to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity. ...

• to civilians for outstanding services rendered to the State
• to members of the armed forces for exemplary service
• to those who promoted friendship and cooperation between peoples and in strengthening peace
• other meritorious services to the Soviet state and society

Those who were awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Hero of Socialist Labor were also given the Order at the same time. The Order was also bestowed on cities, companies, factories, regions, military units and ships. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The first native recipient was a Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda on May 23, 1930. First foreign recipients were two American air mechanics on September 10, 1934 for participation in search and rescue operations of the steamship Cheliuskin. Hero of the Soviet Union (Russian: Герой Советского Союза, Geroy Sovyetskovo Soyuza) was the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of the Soviet Union. ... Hero of Socialist Labor (Герой Социалистического Труда in Russian, or Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorary title in the Soviet Union and the highest degree of distinction for exceptional achievements in national economy and culture. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Komsomolskaya Pravda (in Russian Комсомольская правда, meaning Komsomols Truth) is an all-Russian newspaper and is the product of the long-lived but now extinct Komsomol organization. ... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea... Paddle steamers — Lucerne, Switzerland. ... The Cheliuskin was a Soviet steamship ice_bound in Arctic waters during navigation along the Northern Maritime Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok. ...

Design of the medal

The final design of the Order of Lenin was accepted in 1934. The Order consisted of a badge, featuring a disc bearing the portrait of Vladimir Lenin in platinum. The disc is surrounded by two golden panicles of wheat, and a red flag with the word "Lenin" in Russian (Ленин). A red star is placed on the left, and a Hammer and Sickle emblem is located at the bottom, also colored in red. The badge was worn on the left chest, originally without ribbon, later with a red ribbon bearing two yellow stripes on each edge (see image above). (Note: The ribbon for the Order is the same as that of the British Fire Services Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.) 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lenin redirects here. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... Species T. aestivum T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 For the indie rock group see: Wheat (band). ... The Dannebrog, national flag of Denmark. ... Red star on the Soviet flag The five-pointed red star (a pentagram without the inner pentagon) is a symbol of Communism and Socialism and represents the five fingers of the workers hand, as well as five of six inhabited continents. ... For other uses, see Hammer and sickle (disambiguation). ...

Recipients

• All 14 SSR's and the RSFSR
• Cities
  • Moscow
• Companies
  • Pravda (Newspaper)
• People
  • Sergey Afanasiev (Soviet "Space Minister", awarded 7 times)
  • Fidel Castro (Cuban Leader)
  • George Formby (British Actor) [1]
  • Yuri Gagarin (Cosmonaut)
  • Israel Gelfand (Soviet mathematician, awarded 3 times)
  • Armand Hammer (American Businessman and Philanthropist)
  • Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Premier)
  • Igor Kurchatov (physicist, leader of the Soviet atomic bomb project, awarded 5 times)
  • Vladimir Konovalov (sub-commander, and admiral, awarded 3 times)
  • Kirill Mazurov (Belarusian Soviet politician)
  • Boris Mikhailov (Soviet Ice Hockey Team Captain in 1970s and 80s)
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egyptian President)
  • Fyodor Okhlopkov (WWII hero)
  • Nikolai Ostrovsky (Soviet author, 1904-1936)
  • Kim Philby (British/Soviet double agent) [2]
  • Ronald Reagan (American President, 1980-1988)
  • Arnold Rüütel, Estonian communist leader, later president of the independent Estonia
  • Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia 1945-1980) [3]
  • Gherman Titov (cosmonaut, awarded twice)
  • Vladislav Tretiak (Soviet ice hockey goaltender)
  • Aleksandr Vasilevsky (Soviet marshal, awarded 8 times)
  • Pyotr Vershigora (Soviet major general and writer, a leader of the Soviet partisans during WWII)
  • Vladislav Volkov (cosmonaut)
  • Kliment Voroshilov (Marshal of the SU)
  • Lev Yashin (Soviet Football Goalkeeper)
  • Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev (Soviet sniper during the Battle of Stalingrad)
  • Yakov Zel'dovich (Soviet physicist)
  • Georgy Zhukov (Marshal of the SU)
  • Lyudmila Zykina (Folk singer)
  • Yelena Mukhina (Gymnast 1960-2006)

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April 5] 1894[1]–September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... Igor The Beard Kurchatov Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (И́горь Васи́льевич Курча́тов) (January 8, 1903 – February 7, 1960), Soviet/Russian physicist. ... Andrei Sakharov (left) with Igor Kurchatov (right) The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb began during World War II in the Soviet Union. ... Captain Vladimir Konstantinovich Konovalov, Владимир Константинович Коновалов (December 5, 1911 - November 29, 1967), Soviet Navy submarine commander. ... Kirill Timofievich Mazurov (Russian: Кирилл Тимофеевич Мазуров) (born March 25, 1914, Homyel, Belarus - died December 19, 1989) was a Belarusian Soviet politician. ... Boris Mikhailov (born October 6, 1944 in Moscow) was a Soviet ice hockey right winger. ... This article is about the former president of Egypt. ... Born in Yakutsk, Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov was a Soviet sniper during the Second World War, credited with as many as 429 kills. ... Nikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky (born 29 September 1904, died 22 December 1936) was a socialist realism writer who published most of his works during the Stalins era. ... Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby or H.A.R. Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high ranking member of British intelligence who led a lifelong career as a spy for the Soviet Union. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, May 7, 1892 (May 25th according to official birth certificate) – May 4, 1980) was the leader of the Second Yugoslavia, which lasted from 1943 until 1991. ... Gherman Titov Gherman Stepanovich Titov (Russian: Герман Степанович Титов; September 11, 1935, Verkhnee Zhilino – September 20, 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the second person to orbit the Earth. ... Vladislav Tretiak This article is about the goaltender. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (Russian: , September 30, 1895 – December 5, 1977) was a Soviet military commander, promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943. ... 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Vasili Grigoryevich Zaitsev Captain Vassiliy Grigoryevich Zaitsev (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич За́йцев) (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II who between 10 November and 17 December 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad killed 114 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 snipers. ... Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich (Russian:Яков Борисович Зельдович) (March 8, 1914 – December 2, 1987) was a prolific Soviet physicist. ... Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, GCB (Russian: ) (December 1, 1896 [O.S. November 19]–June 18, 1974), was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Nazi occupation, to overrun... Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina (Russian: Людмила Георгиевна Зыкина) is a national folk singer of Russia. ... Elena Mukhina was an exceptional Russian Gymnast in the late 1970s. ...

References in popular culture

In the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, the doctor on the Red October tells the captain of the ship, Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) that his plan to scuttle the ship (and die with the other officers on board) rather than allow the Americans to capture it and the secret technology on board, whilst saving the non-commissioned crewmembers, would earn him the Order. The Hunt for Red October is Tom Clancys first novel, published in 1984. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is best known as the first actor to portray James Bond on film. ...

In the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the Soviet scientist Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin shows off his various awards including the Order of Lenin and boasts about being given the title of 'Hero of Socialism' for his development of the mobile ballistic missile system known as SS-1C (better known as Scud). Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ... Diagram of V-2, the first ballistic missile. ... For other uses, see Scud (disambiguation). ...

James Bond receives the Order in the 1985 film A View to a Kill. It is awarded by General Anatol Gogol, for saving the American microchip industry (and thus, by implication of heavy espionage, the Soviet microchip industry!), which was going to be destroyed by the main villain Max Zorin. In the movie, Bond is said to be the first non-Soviet citizen to receive the award, though this is not historically accurate. Various other villains and characters in the James Bond movie series have worn the Order on their uniforms, usually in the form of a ribbon bar. Flemings commissioned image of James Bond to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... For the Ian Fleming short story that inspired the film, see From a View to a Kill. ... Walter Gotell as General Gogol General Anatol Gogol was a fictional character in the James Bond series, portrayed by Walter Gotell. ... Max Zorin is a fictional character in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. ...

See also

• Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union
• Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation

Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union are decorations from the Former USSR that recognised achievements and personal accomplishments, both military and civilian. ... The award system of the Russian Federation has two distinct and complementary origins. ...

External links

• Order of Lenin Reference Page