Order of the Badge of Honour

The Order of the Badge of Honour (Орден «Знак Почёта») was a civilian award of the Soviet Union.

It was established on 25 November 1935, and was conferred on citizens of the USSR for outstanding achievements in 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" (Орден Почёта) 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 the Russian Federation, established by Presidential Decree no. 442 of 2 March 1994.

Notable recipients

 * Vadim Bakatin
 * Vasili Blokhin
 * Oleg Bogomolov
 * Ivan Dubasov
 * Alaksandar Dubko
 * Viacheslav Fetisov
 * Mikhail Gorbachev
 * Ivan Kalita
 * Oleg Kalugin
 * Shavarsh Karapetyan
 * Sergey Korolyov
 * Galina Kulakova
 * Viktor Kuzkin
 * Valentin Ivanov
 * Larisa Latynina
 * Vladimir Lutchenko
 * Aleksandr Maltsev
 * Boris Mayorov
 * Natalya Meklin
 * Natalya Melik Melikyan
 * Alexander Ragulin
 * Vitali Smirnov
 * Pavel Sukhoi
 * Boris Yeltsin
 * Zulfi Hajiyev