Semyon Timoshenko - Awards

Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
Russian Empire
  • Cross of St. George, 2nd, 3rd and 4th classes
Soviet Union
  • Hero of the Soviet Union (21 March 1940, 18 February 1965)
  • Order of Victory (№ 11 - 06/04/1945)
  • Five Orders of Lenin (22 February 1938, 21 March 1940, 21 February 1945, 18 February 1965, 18 February 1970)
  • Order of the October Revolution (22 February 1968)
  • Order of the Red Banner, five times (25 July 1920, 11 May 1921, 22 February 1930, 3 November 1944, 6 November 1947)
  • Order of Suvorov, 1st class, three times (9 October 1943, 12 September 1944, 27 April 1945)
  • Honorary revolutionary weapon - a sword with a nominal Order of the Red Banner (28 November 1920)
  • Honor inscribed sword with a gold National Emblem of the Soviet Union (22 February 1968)
  • Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
  • Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
  • Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
  • Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Foreign awards
  • Order of the Tudor Vladimirescu, 1st class (Romania)
  • Military Order of the White Lion "For Victory" (Czechoslovakia)
  • Golden Order of the Partisan Star (Yugoslavia)
  • Medal "30 Years of Victory in the Khalkhin-Gol" (Mongolia)
Political offices
Preceded by
Kliment Voroshilov
People's Commissar of Defense
1940–1941
Succeeded by
Joseph Stalin

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