Honours and Awards
- This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
Chernenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, 1976, in 1981 and in 1984 he was awarded Hero of the Socialist Labour: on the latter occasion, Minister of Defence Ustinov underlined his rule as an "outstanding political figure, a loyal and unwavering continuer of the cause of the great Lenin"; in 1981 he was awarded with the Bulgarian Order of Georgi Dimitrov and in 1982 he received the Lenin Prize for his "Human Rights in Soviet Society."
- Hero of Socialist Labour, three times
- Order of Lenin, four times
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour, three times
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Lenin Prize (1982)
- USSR State Prize (1982)
- Order of Karl Marx (East Germany)
- Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria)
- Order of Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia)
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