It would be quite superfluous to go into the USSR WW2 awards in any
depth on this page as quite a few websites, fora and books on the topic already exist. I've therefore limited myself to a list of
the medals concerned.
List of USSR Awards in WW2
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New Awards |
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner
- Order of the Red Star
- Medal for Bravery
- Medal for Merit in Battle
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of Honour
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- Order of Victory (1943)
- Order of Suvorov (1942)
- Order and Medal of Ushakov (1944)
- Order of Kutuzov (1942)
- Order and Medal of Nachimov (1944)
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (1943)
- Order of Alexander Nevsky (1942)
- Order of the Patriotic War (1942)
- Order of Glory (1943)
- Partisan of the War of the Fatherland Medal (1943)
- Defence of Leningrad Medal (1942)
- Defence of Moscow Medal (1944)
- Defence of Odessa Medal (1942)
- Defence of Sebastopol Medal (1942)
- Defence of Stalingrad Medal (1942)
- Defence of Kiev Medal (1961)
- Defence of the Caucasus Medal (1944)
- Defence of the Soviet Artic Medal (1944)
- Medal for Victory over Germany 1941-45 (1945)
- Medal for Victory over Japan (1945)
- Medal for the Capture of Budapest (1945)
- Medal for the Capture of Koenigsberg (1945)
- Medal for the Capture of Vienna (1945)
- Medal for the Capture of Berlin (1945)
- Medal for the Liberation of Belgrade (1945)
- Medal for the Liberation of Warsaw (1945)
- Medal for the Liberation of Prague (1945)
- Medal for Valiant Labour in the War 1941-45 (1945)
- Anniversary Medals of Victory (1965 and later)
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