Alexey Leonov - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (23 March 1965; 22 July 1975)
  • Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (1966)
  • Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class (2 March 2000) - for his contribution to the state in the development of manned space flight
  • Order of Friendship (12 April 2011) - for outstanding contribution to the development of the national manned space flight, and many years of fruitful social activities
  • Two Orders of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Medals "For Impeccable Service", 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
  • USSR State Prize (1981) (with AV Filipchenko)
  • Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979) - for the book-album "Man and the Universe" (with AK Sokolov)
  • Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR (1965)

Foreign awards:

  • Hero of Socialist Labour (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)
  • Hero of Vietnam
  • Hero of Labour (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966)
  • Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic, 1966)
  • Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria)
  • Order of the Banner of the Hungarian People's Republic
  • Order of Merit, 3rd class (Ukraine, 12 April 2011) - for his significant personal contribution to the development of space industry, advances in the creation and implementation of space systems and technologies, professional excellence
  • Medal A. Becker.
  • Order "For Merit", 1st class (Syria, 1966)

Public organizations:

  • "Gold Medal partisan" (Italy, 1967)
  • Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007)
  • Order of Saint Constantine the Great (Union of the Golden Knights of the Order of St. Constantine the Great)
  • Order "Golden Star" (Foundation Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of the Russian Federation together with the organizing committee of the International Forum "The potential of the nation").
  • Order the "Pride of Russia" (Foundation for the "Pride of the Fatherland", 2007).
  • National Award "To the glory of the Fatherland" in the "Glory to Russia" (International Academy of Social Sciences and International Academy of patronage, 2008).
  • Order "the glory of the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008)

Other awards and titles

  • Honorary Citizen of: Belgorod, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Nalchik, Perm; Arkalyk (Kazakhstan), Kremenchug (Ukraine), Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Svishtov (Bulgaria), Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic), San Antonio (Chile)
  • Reward edged weapon - a nominal officer Dirk "Alexei Leonov"
  • Commander of the Order of St. Anne III degree from the head of the Russian Imperial House Maria Vladimirovna Romanova (2008)
  • Commander of the Order of St. Anne II degree from the head of the Russian Imperial House Maria Vladimirovna Romanova (2011)
  • Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts

Read more about this topic:  Alexey Leonov

Famous quotes containing the word honours:

    Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)