Valery Bykovsky - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

Valery Bykovsky was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union (1963), the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Star, and numerous other medals and foreign orders.

  • Gold Star Hero of the Soviet Union (22 June 1963, 28 September 1976)
  • Order of Friendship (12 April 2011) - for outstanding contribution to the development of the national manned space flight and long-term fruitful public activity
  • Three Orders of Lenin (22 June 1963, 28 September 1976, 1978)
  • Order of the Red Star (1961)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1976)
  • Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
  • Medal "For Development of the Virgin Lands" (1963)
  • 9th anniversary medals.
  • Hero of Socialist Labour (Bulgaria, 1963)
  • Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 1963)
  • Hero of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, 1978)
  • Order of Karl Marx, twice (East Germany, 1976, 1978)
  • Hero of Socialist Labour (Vietnam, 1963)
  • Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (Poland, 1963)
  • Order of the Star of Indonesia, 2nd class (1963)
  • Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" (Bulgaria)
  • Medal "25 Years of People's Power" (Bulgaria)
  • Medal "Brotherhood in Arms", 3rd class (East Germany)
  • Medal "Brotherhood in Arms" (Poland)
  • Gold Medal. Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences
  • Medal yes Lavo (FAI).
  • Gold Medal "for outstanding distinction" and an honorary diploma of the Royal Aero Club of Sweden

Read more about this topic:  Valery Bykovsky

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)