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(1960-1978)
 

 

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Order for Service to the Homeland of the USSR (3rd class)

  

Order for Service to the Homeland of the USSR 3rd Class Ribbon

This ribbon was awarded with the medal, and was worn when the full medal was not authorized (such as on off-duty uniforms). 

 
Established - October 28, 1974
Composition - Silver and enamel
Number Awarded - over 75,000
Designer - L. Pilipenko

This order was bestowed on servicemen of the Soviet Army, Navy, MVD, and Border Guards, for achievements in training, political education, maintaining a high level of combat readiness, and for mastering new combat equipment.

These orders are bestowed in a specific order, lowest to highest.  The first of the 3rd class one was awarded on February 17, 1975 on the 57th anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy.

 

About this medal

This order here (serial number 41,269) was awarded to Ivan Nikolaevich Skuratovsky on May 17, 1979.  It was the first order in his book.

 

  

    

 

Order of Labor Glory 3rd Class
and Award Booklet

Established -

January 18, 1974

Composition -

Silver, Gold plating, and enamel

Number Awarded -

Over 500,000

Designer -

Y. Yegorov

The Order of Labor Glory was established in three classes and awarded to workers and foremen in industry, transport, construction, and other branches of the manufacturing sector. It was given for selfless and highly efficient work at one enterprise, and for innovations, inventions, and ideas for greater efficiency. It was also awarded to teachers for major achievements in the education of children and young people.

The first Orders of Labor Glory were given to orkers of the Vladimir Ilyich Engineering Works in Moscow on August 9, 1974. It was also given to coal miners of the Amalgamation Yuzhkuzbassugol factory, and the Zaporozhstal Steel Works.

Mikhail Kisin, a worker at the Vladimir Ilyich Engineering Works received the first Order of Labor Glory 3rd class. The first holder of the Order of all three classes became Abbasov Vekil Gadzhi Aga-ogly, a well driller in Azerbaijan in 1981.

  

Order of Labor Glory 3rd Class Ribbon

This ribbon was awarded with the medal, and was worn when the full medal was not authorized (such as on off-duty uniforms). 

 

About this medal

This third class order here (serial number 384584) was awarded to Yarmalene Yadviga Antanovna on March 30, 1978.

 

 

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