Kirill Meretskov - 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 (21 March 1940)
• Order of Victory (№ 18–8 September 1945)
• Seven Orders of Lenin (3 January 1937, 21 March 1940, 2 November 1944, 21 February 1945, 6 June 1947, 6 June 1957, 6 June 1967)
• Order of the October Revolution (22 February 1968)
• Order of Red Banner, four times (22 February 1928, 2 March 1938, 3 November 1944, 6 November 1947)
• Order of Suvorov, 1st class, twice (28 January 1943, 21 February 1944)
• Order of Kutuzov, 1st class (29 June 1944)
• Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
• Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic"
• 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"
• Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
• 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"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

Foreign awards

• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (Norway, 1945)
• Legion of Merit, Chief Commander (USA, 1946)
• Order of the National Flag, 1st class (North Korea, 1948)
• Order of the Blazing Banner, 1st class (China, 1946)
• Medal "For Victory over Japan" (Mongolia, 1946)
• Medal "For the liberation of Korea" (North Korea, 1948)