Labour Award Decrees.

[CtahhR]

Long service awards could be "Summet f'nowt".

Yorkshire language should well be recognised throughout the Anglophonic world as the King James version of the bible was translated by a very Yorkshire heavy team and drew heavily from another Yorkshire based translation. I hear that book has been printed more times than the communist party manifesto.

I do believe that the tiny list of only a handful of ukazs will soon explode but the full extent of ukazs for Labour awards is not known. With the small amount of information already presented it is starting to look as though the vast majority of awards will be for long service in currently overlooked civil services. Although I am constantly prepared for some amazing revelations.

[matteti]

A few more...

• 1945-08-22 33 Mothers for giving birth and raising more than 10 children - What is interesting is that most of those mother are also workers - farming or factory (Order of Mother Hero)
• 1945-09-xx tons of aviation industry plants were awarded with Order of Lenin or Order of Red Banner of Labor
• 1945-09-22 Komsomol organization of Belarus for courage, selflessness and heroism displayed by members of the Belarusian Komsomol youths in Red Army and Partisan (Order of Red Banner)
• 1945-09-22 To academician Sergei Sergeyevich Smirnov for outstanding achievements in the field of geology in connection to its 50th birthday
• 1945-09-23 To employees of the redaction/editing, publishing and printing newspaper Pravda and in connection with the 10,000th issue of Pravda (26 OPW1, 6 ORB, 10 ORBL, 23 ORS, 51 OBH, 61 medal for VL)
• 1945-09-23 To Pravda newspaper for success in education of the workers in the spirit of Lenin-Stalin and outstanding achievements in mobilization of the Soviet people (Order of Lenin)
• 1945-09-29 Moscow State Conservatory Professor Vassiliy Vassiliyevich Nechaev for his contributions to area of musical arts in connection to its 50th birthday (Order of Red Banner of Labor)

I see a lot of individual awards given for lifetime services (without indication to how many years of service) and given on the occasion of 50th, 60th, 75th, or 80th birthday. I knew Brezhnev gave himself lot of those birthday gifts, but he was not the only one who got those.

Also, as per which awards was given to who, I see many cases where the higher valued awards were given to higher ranking people in the hierarchy of the civil organization and lower ranking medals went to simple workers, without consideration to length of services. Directors, Managers and Brigadiers got the Orders of Lenin, OOR,... while simple workers got the medals for Valiant Labor and Distinguished Labor.

[CtahhR]

I do have 100's (if not 1000's) more of these covering all sorts of exploits but since everyone can research themselves (or no-one cares) that's it for now.

Za Rodina!

[Tretov]

I enjoy civilian awards more than military and would be at some time like to research some of my civil awards. I would especially like to research a few of my Order of Friendship of Nations.