Order of Lenin
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Order of Lenin
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- 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
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 to the right). (Note: The ribbon for the Order is the same as that of the British Fire Services Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.)Sample list of recipients
- All 14 SSR's and the RSFSR
- Cities
- * Moscow
- Companies
- * Pravda (Newspaper)
- People
- * Aleksandr Vasilevsky (Soviet marshal, awarded 8 times)
- * Sergey Afanasiev (Soviet "Space Minister", awarded 7 times)
- * Fidel Castro (Cuban Leader)
- * George Formby (British Actor) [link]
- * Yuri Gagarin (Cosmonaut)
- * Israel Gelfand (Soviet mathematician, awarded 3 times)
- * Armand Hammer (American Buisnessman and Philanthropist)
- * Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Premier)
- * 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)
- * Nikolai Ostrovsky (Soviet author, 1904-1936)
- * Kim Philby (British/Soviet double agent) [link]
- * Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia 1945-1980) [link]
- * Vladislav Tretiak (Soviet ice hockey goaltender)
- * 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)
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. It is unclear whether or not his actions will fit the criteria of the Order.In the video game , 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.
James Bond receives the Order in the 1985 film A View to a Kill. It is awarded by General 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 told he is 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.
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