Vasily Chuikov - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.
Soviet Union
  • Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (19 March 1944, 6 April 1945)
  • Order of Lenin, nine times (26 October 1943, 19 March 1944, 21 February 1945, 11 February 1950, 11 February 1960, 12 February 1970, 11 February 1975, 21 February 1978, 11 February 1980)
  • Order of the October Revolution (22 February 1968)
  • Order of the Red Banner, four times (1920, 1925, 1944, 1948)
  • Order of Suvorov, 1st class, three times (28 January 1943, 23 August 1944, 29 May 1945)
  • Order of the Red Star (1940)
  • Honorary arms with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (22 February 1968)
  • Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
  • Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
  • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
  • Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
  • Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"
  • Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
  • 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 "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Foreign
  • Order of Merit for the Fatherland in gold, twice (East Germany)
  • Grand Cross of the Star of People's Friendship (East Germany)
  • Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class (Poland)
  • Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari (Poland)
  • Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
  • Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia)
  • Two orders of China
  • Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

Awards of other countries

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