Alexey Leonov - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

• Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (23 March 1965; 22 July 1975)
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (1966)
• Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class (2 March 2000) - for his contribution to the state in the development of manned space flight
• Order of Friendship (12 April 2011) - for outstanding contribution to the development of the national manned space flight, and many years of fruitful social activities
• Two Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Star
• Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class
• Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• 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"
• Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
• Medals "For Impeccable Service", 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
• USSR State Prize (1981) (with AV Filipchenko)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979) - for the book-album "Man and the Universe" (with AK Sokolov)
• Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR (1965)

Foreign awards:

• Hero of Socialist Labour (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)
• Hero of Vietnam
• Hero of Labour (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966)
• Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic, 1966)
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria)
• Order of the Banner of the Hungarian People's Republic
• Order of Merit, 3rd class (Ukraine, 12 April 2011) - for his significant personal contribution to the development of space industry, advances in the creation and implementation of space systems and technologies, professional excellence
• Medal A. Becker.
• Order "For Merit", 1st class (Syria, 1966)

Public organizations:

• "Gold Medal partisan" (Italy, 1967)
• Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007)
• Order of Saint Constantine the Great (Union of the Golden Knights of the Order of St. Constantine the Great)
• Order "Golden Star" (Foundation Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of the Russian Federation together with the organizing committee of the International Forum "The potential of the nation").
• Order the "Pride of Russia" (Foundation for the "Pride of the Fatherland", 2007).
• National Award "To the glory of the Fatherland" in the "Glory to Russia" (International Academy of Social Sciences and International Academy of patronage, 2008).
• Order "the glory of the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008)

Other awards and titles

• Honorary Citizen of: Belgorod, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Nalchik, Perm; Arkalyk (Kazakhstan), Kremenchug (Ukraine), Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Svishtov (Bulgaria), Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic), San Antonio (Chile)
• Reward edged weapon - a nominal officer Dirk "Alexei Leonov"
• Commander of the Order of St. Anne III degree from the head of the Russian Imperial House Maria Vladimirovna Romanova (2008)
• Commander of the Order of St. Anne II degree from the head of the Russian Imperial House Maria Vladimirovna Romanova (2011)
• Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts