Order of Lenin

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civilian award order state decoration

The Order of Lenin was the highest civilian decoration in the Soviet Union, awarded for outstanding services to the state in fields such as military service, economics, culture, and science.

Aliases (4)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	civilian award → order → state decoration →
abolished	1991 →
awardedBy	Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR → Soviet government →
awardedTo	Soviet cities → Soviet republics → industrial enterprises → military formations →
awardFor	cultural achievements → economic achievements → military service → outstanding services to the state → scientific achievements →
canBeAwardedMultipleTimes	true →
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union →
dateEstablished	1930-04-06 →
depicts	portrait of Vladimir Lenin →
eligibility	cities → citizens of the Soviet Union → foreign citizens → military units → organizations → republics →
firstAwarded	1930 →
highestAwardIn	Soviet Union →
inception	1930-04-06 →
languageOfName	Russian →
lastAwarded	1991 →
material	enamel → gold → platinum → silver →
namedAfter	Vladimir Lenin →
officialNameInRussian	Орден Ленина →
precedence	highest civilian decoration of the USSR →
ribbonColor	red →
ribbonFeature	gold stripes →
shape	five-pointed star →
status	defunct →
totalAwards	~431,000 →
type	civilian decoration → military decoration →
usedFor	development of friendship and cooperation between peoples → recognition of heroism → recognition of labor achievements → strengthening of defense of the USSR →

Referenced by (81)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Alexander Rutskoy → Alexei Kosygin → Alexei Maximovich Peshkov → Anastas Mikoyan → Anatoly Lukyanov → Andrei Kolmogorov → Andrei Tupolev → Andrei Vyshinsky → Andrey Yeremenko → Bolesław Bierut → Boris Gromov → Boris Shakhlin → Boris Yeltsin → Dmitry Yazov → Enrique Líster → Ferenc Münnich → François Mitterrand → Georgi Dimitrov → Georgy Zhukov → Israel Gelfand → Ivan Bagramyan → Ivan Chernyakhovsky → Ivan Konev → Ivan Kozhedub → Josip Broz Tito → Kirill Meretskov → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Chernenko → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Kuzma Derevyanko → Lazar Kaganovich → Leonid Brezhnev → Maksim Gorky → Michał Rola-Żymierski → Mikhail Gorbachev → Mikhail Kirponos → Mikhail Shumilov → Mikhail Suslov → Nelson Mandela → Nikita Khrushchev → Nikolai Ogarkov → Nikolai Ryzhkov → Nikolai Vatutin → Rodion Malinovsky → Semyon Budyonny → Semyon Timoshenko → Sergei Akhromeyev → Sergei Korolev → Sergo Zakariadze → Stanislav Kosior → Urho Kekkonen → Vasily Chuikov → Vasily Stalin → Vassili Zaitsev → Vitaly Ginzburg → Vladimir Kryuchkov → Vladislav Tretiak → Wanda Wasilewska → Wilhelm Pieck → Wojciech Jaruzelski → Yevgeny Vuchetich → Yuri Andropov → Yuri Gagarin → Zhores Alferov →	awardReceived
Order of the Red Banner → Order of the Red Banner of Labour →	precededBy
Joseph Stalin →	awarded
Soviet military officers →	awardedDecoration
Hero of Socialist Labour ("Order of Lenin (as a higher distinction in labour achievements)") →	follows
Vladimir Putin ("Order of Lenin (Soviet-era decorations)") →	hasHonor
Hero of the Soviet Union →	hasPart
Hammer and Sickle gold medal ("Order of Lenin (as a title insignia, not an order)") →	higherThan
Larisa Latynina →	honor
Order of Lenin ("Орден Ленина") →	officialNameInRussian
Order of the October Revolution →	precededByInRank
Zygmunt Berling →	receivedAward
Medal for Labour Valour →	relatedAward
Soviet system of orders, medals and titles →	topOrder
Hero of Socialist Labour →	usuallyAccompaniedBy