Foreign Awards To Soviets.

[Taz]

This is maybe one of the lesser known awardings of a foriegn Medal to Soviets.
It is the Medal of the prizewinner for the nonviolent actions for peace, named after Martin Luther King. USA. 1990. Bronze, dia 70 mm. President of the USSR M. S. Gorbachev was awarded with it during his visit to the USA in June 1990.

Eddie.

[Kim]

Time to blow the dust from this old thread! :)

I have, no thanks to my own research, found out the Soviet citizens that got the titel Yugoslavian Hero title!! A kind reply from slovenian collector collegue Dejan makes it possible to add the following 16 names:

BIRJUZOV SERGEJ SEMJONOVIC Army-Marshal Year ?

DULKIN IVANA ANTONOVIC Air Force-Senior leutnant 21.June 1945

DIMITRIJENKO PAVEL IGNATJEVIC Air Force 21.June 1945

JAKIMOV PAVEL NIKITOVIC Air Force captain Septembre 1944

KALINKIN BORIS TIHONOVIC Air Force captain Septembre 1944

KONSTANTINOV IVAN NIKIFOROVIC Air Force captain 21.June 1945

KOZAK SEMJON ANTONOVIC Army Gen.Major Year ?

MALINOVSKI RODION JAKOVLJEVIC Army Marshal 27.May 1964

MANAGADZE ALEKSANDAR TEOPANOVIC Air Force Senior leutnant 21.June 1945

OHRIMENKO GRIGORIJ NIKOLAJEVIC Navy captain II class 21.June 1945

SUDEC VLADIMIR ALEKSANDROVIC Air Force General 27.May 1964

SORNIKOV ALEKSANDAR SERGEJEVIC Air Force major Septembre 1944

ULISKO VASILIJE ANDREJEVIC Air Force major 21.June 1945

VITRUK ANDREJ NIKIFOROVICAir Force general 1944-45 ?

ZDANOV VLADIMIR IVANOVIC Army Gen.Lajtnant Septembre 1944

This makes the number of titels issued to Russians complete. :D Also perhaps worth mentioning is that the other titles went to:

3 albanians
1 Italian
1 Czech
1 Polack

/Kim

[slava1stclass]

Kim,

The total number of awards to foreigners (22) tracks with the information I posted in a separate thread. No surprise that the lion's share (16/22 or 73%) went to Soviets. BTW, A. N. Vitruk's rank was Maj Gen (Aviation).

Regards,

slava1stclass

[vatjan]

Hi guys,
There is a mistake in the "Hero of Mongolia to Soviets" listing:

Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna did not receive the Hero title but the Hero of Labour title.

Apparantly Tsedenbal did not want to give her the Hero title because no (living) Mongolian woman was honoured with the title at that point.
So she got the Hero of Labour title.

Jan

[vatjan]

Also there seem to be more recipients of the Czech Hero star

Andrei Antonovich Grechko, marshal of USSR and minister of defence of USSR 05.10.1969
Kiril Semjonovich Moskalenko, marshal of USSR 05.10.1969
marshal of USSR of USSR Andrei Stepanovich Jeremenko 28.04.1970
marshal of USSR Ivan Stepanovich Konev 28.04.1970
marshal of USSR Matvej Vasiljevich Zacharov 28.04.1970
marshal of USSR Ivan Ignatevich Jakubovski 28.04.1970
Leonid Iljich Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 29.10.1976
Leonid Iljich Brezhnev, general secretary of ÚV USSR 05.05.1970
Jurij Viktorovich Romanenko, airman-cosmonaut of USSR 27.04.1978
Georgi Michajlovich Grechko, airman-cosmonaut of USSR 27.04.1978
Alexei Alexandrovich Gubarev, airman-cosmonaut of USSR 27.04.1978
Leonid Iljich Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and Head of the Presidium of USSR 16.12.1981
marshal of USSR Dmitriy Fjodorovich Ustinov, minister of defence of USSR 06.10.1982

For the complete Hero list see:
http://www.vyznamenani.net/CSR/Hero_...oslovakia.html

Jan

[desantnik]

This photo depicts a Soviet artillery lieutenant colonel wearing among his other Soviet decorations, a DDR Aktivist der sozialistischen Arbeit (Activist of Socialist Labor) medal (just visible lower right).

Photo reverse inscription identifies him as conducting duties of Chief of Staff, Unit V/Ch 83487. Dated October 1977.

[Tretov]

Interesting that he is wearing his awards in the earlier pattern, given that the year is 1977 and he is in service.

[Greg Collins]

I don't know why, but it kinda strikes me as weird that this is the one East German award the Lt. Colonel has... given his position, I would have expected a more "military" award.

Noticed in a couple of the photos in Pickard's book that this medal was available with (or at least modified to have) a five sided ribbon hangar to make it fit in more readily with other military awards. I only saw this on German uniforms, though.

[desantnik]

From what I've seen, mostly Soviet general officers received the higher DDR awards we're accustomed to seeing.

This is low enough a fellow DDR officer could have awarded it to him without much, if any fanfare as a friendly gesture.

[Taz]

Originally Posted by Greg Collins

Noticed in a couple of the photos in Pickard's book that this medal was available with (or at least modified to have) a five sided ribbon hangar to make it fit in more readily with other military awards. I only saw this on German uniforms, though.

Here are some examples of adapted Medals:

Ehrentitel Aktivist der sozialistischen Arbeit (Activist of Socialist Labour) (1969)

Ehrentitel Aktivist der Siebenjahrplanes (Activist of Seven Year Plan) (1960-69)

Ehrentitel Aktivist der Fünfjahrplanes (Activist of Five Year Plan) (1953-69)

And the normal pentagonal suspension for the Medaille für Treue Dienste, Nationalen Volksarmee (1956) Five years service.

NVA personal were allowed to adapt their Civilian awards to be worn on the NVA ribbon bar albeit at there own cost. They were not supplied for them.