Valentin Glushko - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

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  • Hero of Socialist Labour, twice (1956, 1961)
  • Order of Lenin, five times (1956, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1978)
  • Order of the October Revolution (1971)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1945)
  • Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970)
  • Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1975)
  • Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1985)
  • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1945)
  • Medal "Veteran of Labour" (1984)
  • Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1948)
  • Lenin Prize (1957)
  • USSR State Prize (1967, 1984)
  • Gold Medal. Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958)
  • Diploma of them. Paul Tissandier (FAI) (1967)
  • Honorary Citizen of Korolyov
  • Asteroid number 6357, discovered in 1976, was named in Glushko's honour by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
  • Crater Glushko on the Moon is named after him
  • An avenue in the Ukrainian capital Kiev is named after Glushko

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