Nikolay Burdenko - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

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  • Hero of Socialist Labour (1943)
  • Three Orders of Lenin
  • Order of the Red Banner
  • Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
  • Order of the Red Star
  • Medal for Combat Service
  • Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Stalin Prize (1941)
  • Honorary member of the International Society of Surgeons, Royal Society of London.

The following were named after Burdenko: SRI of the neurosurgery in Moscow, Сentral military hospital, the faculty of the surgical clinic of the Sechenov's medical academy, Penza provincial clinical hospital, streets in Moscow and Voronezh, an asteroid (6754 Burdenko)

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