Order "Gold Star".

[ibaya]

Found an interesting image on a Russian webpage. It's called the "Order of the Golden Star":

[INDENT]Персональная награда Звезда Ордена «Золотая Звезда» присуждается лидерам общественных организаций и некоммерческих партнёрств, представителям государственной власти, руководителям предприятий промышленного и сельскохозяйственного производства, топливно-энергетического комплекса, строительства, транспорта, связи, торговли и сервиса, внесшим значимый вклад в экономическое, социальное и духовное развитие российского общества.

Personal Award Star Order «Golden Star» awarded to the leaders of social organizations and non-profit partnerships, public officials, heads of industrial and agricultural production, fuel and energy complex, construction, transport, communications, trade and service that have made significant contributions to economic, social and spiritual development of Russian society
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Новости.

[ibaya]

Another webpage shows the tabletop display version:

http://www.altaivagon.ru/news/zoom_1.jsp?from=45&id=79

This website seems to explain the decoration more completely:

http://www.zzvezda.ru/opis2.htm

[Commissar]

Very interesting, I've noticed the successor to the Hero of the Soviet Union as the Hero of the Russian Federation, about time an updated HSL came out.

[Christophe]

Interesting, but this is an unofficial one... ;)

Cheers.

Ch.

[Tretov]

Interesting, but this is an unofficial one... ;)

Cheers.

Ch.

Oh no :( not another one!

[SpaceCadet1983]

I, for one, like it! :thumbsup

[desantnik]

I thought the honorific title was "Oligarch":D.

[ibaya]

It takes a lot of chutzpah to make an unofficial award in the unmistakable likeness of a current state award (even with a few added embellishments), and the highest title at that ...

[Commissar]

Hmm, well since we're on the topic of Fed awards, how rare are Heroes of the Russian Federation? :D

[ibaya]

Hmm, well since we're on the topic of Fed awards, how rare are Heroes of the Russian Federation? :D

From the folks at Wikipedia:

"To date, the award has been presented an estimated 750 times, including 340 times posthumously."