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Order Of Glory (Kazakhstan)
The Order of Glory (russian: Орден Славы) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 8, 1943. It was awarded to soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the Red Army as well as to aviation junior lieutenants, for bravery in the face of the enemy. While the overwhelming majority of all Order of Glory awards was for combat valor in the Second World War (or the Great Patriotic War as it is known across the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), there are documented instances of awards of the order's lowest class - its third class - for post-war Soviet military operations. Numbering among these were Order of Glory Third Class awards authorized for Soviet operations in support of the Korean War from 1950-1953 as well as for the Soviet military intervention in Hungary in the fall of 1956. A small number of Order of Glory Third Class awards was also made in connection with arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Labor Glory
The Order of Labour Glory (Russian: ''Орден Трудовой Славы'') was a Soviet civilian award created on 18 January 1974 by the decision of the Praesidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Closely modelled on the Order of Glory, it was meant to be its civilian counterpart, awarded for exceptional labour achievements. In the same way as the Order of Glory, it was divided in three classes (the highest being the 1st class), with a person initially received the third degree, and subsequently promoted to higher degrees for further achievements. It also gave a certain number of material benefits to their owners, such as pension raises or free travel in city transports. In 1991, the following number of awards were made: * 1st class – 983 * 2nd class – 41,218 * 3rd class – 611,242 Medals and ribbons References * Great Soviet Encyclopedia, entry on "USSR Orders" * Decision of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of the USSR The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evgeniy Chuikov
Evgeniy Vasilievich Chuikov ( Russian language: Евгений Васильевич Чуйков; May 18, 1924 – February 15, 2000) was a Ukrainian landscape painter working in the Russian realist ( The Wanderers) and French Impressionist traditions. Life and work Early years and the Second World War Evgeniy Chuikov was born in the village of Nizhniy Reut, Kursk region, Russia. His father Vasiliy Chuikov was an accountant and Evgeniy was the second eldest of three brothers. In 1933 the family moved to Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine and Chuikov began attending the local art school under the stewardship I.F.Fedyanin. He quickly distinguished himself with his strong visual memory and intuitive feeling for colour but the pursuit of further art education was however halted by the commencement of the Second World War. In 1943, at the age of 19, he enrolled into the Red Army and joined the 3rd Ukrainian Front ( Southwestern Front). He was assigned to a reconnaissance unit and took part i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanti Abdurakhmanov
Kanti Abdurakhmanov (russian: Канти Абдурахманов; 1916 – March 28, 2000) was a Chechen Master Sergeant in an artillery battery of the Red Army during World War II. For heroic deeds during the war he was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation in May 1996. Early life Born in 1916 in the Chechen town of Shali, he became an orphan at an early age. He worked as a farmhand and then was employed on a collective farm before he volunteered to join the army in 1941 after the start of Operation Barbarossa. World War II Upon entering the military, Abdurakhmanov completed junior artillery commanders' training in Tashkent in June 1942. From October 1943 to May 1945 he served in the acting Army and took part in a number of offensive battles, on several occasions he was wounded but returned to the Army. During an offensive battle in December 1943 to the West of Vitebsk the infantry lay under intense fire from the fortified position of the enemy. Abdurakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Zhurkina
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Zhurkina (russian: Надежда Александровна Журкина; 28 August 1920 – 24 April 2002) was a radio operator and gunner in the 99th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment during the Second World War and one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the Order of Glory. Early life Zhurkina was born on 28 August 1920 to a working-class Russian family in Turinsk. Before joining the military in 1942 she studied at the Moscow Law Institute and had graduated from flight courses at the Moscow Aeroclub where she became certified to pilot a Po-2. After both of her brothers who were in the military died in combat shortly after the start of the war and inspired by the leadership of Marina Raskova, she sought to join the military. In 1944 she became a member of the Communist Party. Military career Not long after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, Zhurkina joined the Red Army in 1942 and worked at an intercept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonid Velilayev
Leonid (Nasibulla) Abibulaevich Velilayev (russian: Леонид (Насибулла) Абибулаевич Велиляев, crh, Nasibulla Abibulla oğlu Velilâyev/Насибулла Абибулла огълу Велиляев; 15 May 1916 – 27 December 1997) was a Crimean Tatar soldier in the Red Army who was awarded the Order of Glory 1st class for bravery in World War II. Early life Velilayev was born in 1916 to a Crimean Tatar peasant family in the rural village of Akmonai. After completing seven grades of school in 1928 he had an apprenticeship at a factory and later worked at a metallurgical plant in Kerch until entering the Red Army in 1937; he was soon deployed to fight in the Soviet-Finnish war. World War II Velilayev was assigned to the 140th Guards Infantry Regiment during World War II. He was awarded his first Order of Glory in 1944 for his actions as an assistant platoon commander in the village of Olshanka, Ukraine, in which he was wounded while he led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danutė Stanelienė
Danutė Stanelienė (20 April 1922 – 8 August 1994) was a machine gunner in the 167th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division during World War II. On 24 March 1945, she became the first woman (of only four) to be awarded the Order of Glory 1st class. Early life Stanelienė was born on 20 April 1922 to a Lithuanian peasant family in village, Lithuania. Her mother died when she was just two years old, but her father later remarried. After completing her third grade of school she took care of her younger siblings from her father's second marriage in addition to working in agriculture. In 1940, she began working at a printing house; and after the start of the war, she was evacuated from the front to Nizhny Novgorod where she worked at a factory. In 1944, she became a member of the Communist Party. Military career After voluntarily enlisting in the Red Army in February 1942 she began serving in a medical unit before transferring to become a cook. While she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Petrova
Nina Pavlovna Petrova (russian: Нина Павловна Петрова; 27 July 1893 – 1 May 1945) was a Soviet sniper during the Winter War and World War II. She was credited with 122 kills by soviet government. She was posthumously awarded the Order of Glory 1st class on 29 June 1945, making her one of only four women to be awarded all three classes of the award. Civilian life Petrova was born in 1893 to a Russian family in Lomonsov village within the Russian Empire. During Nina's youth her father died, leaving their mother alone to raise five children by herself, so after completing secondary school Nina enrolled in trade school. Three years later the family moved to Vladivostok where Nina worked as an accountant during the day and went to school at night. Later she moved to Revel and found employment at a shipyard. During the 1917 revolution she was a resident of Lodeynoye Pole in the St. Petersburg Oblast but moved to the city of Leningrad with her daughter in 1927. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrena Necheporchukova
Matrena Semyonovna Nazdracheva, née Necheporchukova (russian: Матрёна Семёновна Нечепорчукова; 3 April 1924 – 22 March 2017) was a combat medic in Red Army who rescued 250 wounded soldiers and officers during World War II. On 15 May 1946 she was awarded the Order of Glory 1st Class and became one of only four women to receive all three classes of that order. Early life Necheporchukova was born in the village of Volchiy Yar to a Ukrainian peasant family. After her parents died in 1933 she lived in a local boarding school, and in 1939 she completed her seventh grade of school, marking the end of her secondary education, but after graduating from the Balakleyevskaya Obstetrical Nursing School she became a nurse. She had wanted to join the ranks of the Red Army sooner, but the Nazis occupied the Kharkhov area (where she lived) soon after the start of the war, and before that the Red Army initially rejected her because she was too young when the war s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duda Enginoev
Duda Edievich Enginoev (russian: Дуда Эдиевич Энгиноев; 25 June 1919 – 22 October 1979) was a scout in the Red Army and the only Chechen full bearer of the Order of Glory. Early life Enginoev was born on 25 June 1919 to a Chechen peasant family in the village of Psedakh, presently located in the Malgobeksky District of Ingushetia. With only a primary education, he worked on a collective farm before entering the Red Army in the late 1930s. He saw combat in the Winter War. World War II Starting in July 1941, Enginoev was on the front lines of World War II. In 1942 he was seriously wounded, but he eventually returned to combat. On 9 April 1944 he took out three enemy soldiers and obtained valuable documents while on a reconnaissance mission, and later that month he was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd class for bravery in obtaining the documents and delivering them to division command. In September he captured multiple retreating enemy soldiers and officers, result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavel Dubinda
Pavel Khristoforovich Dubinda (russian: Павел Христофорович Дуби́нда; – 22 October 1992) was a sergeant in the Red Army during World War II and one of only four people that was both a full bearer of the Order of Glory and Hero of the Soviet Union. Early life Dubinda was born on to a Ukrainian family in the village of Progno. After completing his seventh grade of school he worked on a fish farm before entering the navy in 1936. World War II During the very initial phase of the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was stationed on the ''Chervona Ukraina'', on which he participated in the defense of Odessa and Sevastopol. After the cruiser was bombed and the crew ordered to abandon ship in November 1941 he was assigned to the 8th Marine Rifle Brigade. Captured in battle, he was held in several POW camps before managing to successfully escape and return to the Red Army in 1944. Upon his return he entered the 293rd Guards Rifle Regiment. Soon he was awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Drachenko
Ivan Grigorievich Drachenko (russian: Иван Григорьевич Драченко; 15 November 1922 16 November 1994) was a Soviet Il-2 pilot and the only aviator awarded both the title Hero of the Soviet Union and been a full bearer of the Order of Glory. Early life Drachenko was born on 15 November 1922 to a Ukrainian peasant family in Velikaya Sevastyanovka village. Before entering the military in 1941 he complete high school and trained at the Leningrad aeroclub. During the early phase of World War II he was a student at the Tambov Military Aviation School of Pilots, away from the front. Combat career After graduating from the academy in Tambov, Drachenko was deployed to the warfront as an Il-2 pilot. He fought in the battle of Kursk. While over Kharkhov on 14 August 1943 he rammed an enemy fighter to save his regimental commander, but was seriously injured in the process. After parachuting out he became unconscious and was captured by the Axis. While detained in a prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
