Boris Yeltsin - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

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

Russian and Soviet

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (12 June 2001) – a particularly outstanding contribution to the establishment and development of the Russian state
• Order of Lenin (January 1981) – for services to the Communist Party and Soviet state and his fiftieth birthday
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, twice;
  • August 1971 – for services in carrying out a five-year plan
  • January 1974 – for achievements in the construction of the first stage of cold rolling shop at the Verkh-Isetsky Metallurgical Plant in Sverdlovsk
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1966) – for achievements in implementing the seven-year plan targets for construction
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan" (2006)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin" (November 1969)
• Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (April 1975)
• Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (January 1978)
• Gold Medal, Exhibition of Economic Achievements (October 1981)
• Medal - "In memory of the army as a volunteer" (March 2012, posthumous) - for a high contribution to the remembrance of the Great Patriotic War, with respect for the history of the Russian state, and for his contribution to the preservation of names of victims in conflicts in defence of the homeland

Foreign awards

• Order of Francisc Skorina (Belarus, 31 December 1999) – for his great personal contribution to the development and strengthening of Belarusian-Russian cooperation
• Order of the Golden Eagle (Kazakhstan, 1997)
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (Ukraine, 22 January 2000) – for his significant personal contribution to the development of Ukrainian-Russian cooperation
• Knight Grand Cross with collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy, 1991)
• Order of the Three Stars, 1st class (Latvia, 2006)
• Order "Bethlehem 2000" (Palestinian Authority, 2000)
• Knight Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (France)
• Order of Good Hope, 1st class (South Africa, 1999)
• Medal of 13 January (Lithuania, 9 January 1992)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis (Lithuania, 10 June 2011, posthumous)
• Order "For Personal Courage" (Mongolia, 18 October 2001)

Departmental awards

• Gorchakov Commemorative Medal (Russian Foreign Ministry, 1998)
• Golden Olympic Order (International Olympic Committee, 1993)

Religious awards

• Order of Saint Blessed Grand Prince Dimitry Donskoy, 1st class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2006)
• Chevalier of the Order of the Chain of the Holy Sepulchre (Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, 2000)

Titles

• Honorary Citizen of the Sverdlovsk Oblast (2010, posthumous), Kazan (2005), Samara Oblast (2006), Yerevan (Armenia) (2002), Turkmenistan

Gold medal of ENEA