Vasily Ivanovich Petrov - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

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

Soviet Union and Russia

• Hero of the Soviet Union (16 February 1982)
• Order of Alexander Nevsky (3 May 2012)
• Four Orders of Lenin (December 1967, February 1978, 16 February 1982, January 1987)
• Order of the October Revolution (February 1974)
• Order of the Red Banner (October 1944)
• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, twice (July 1944, April 1985), 2nd class (October 1943)
• Order of the Red Star, twice (November 1942, October 1955)
• Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (February 1976)
• Medal for Combat Service
• Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR"
• Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
• Medal "For the Defence of Odessa"
• Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol"
• Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation"
• 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"
• Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"
• Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
• Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Foreign awards

• Order "Ernesto Che Guevara", 1st class (Cuba, 1985)
• Order of the Red Banner (Czechoslovakia) (1982)
• Order Pobedonostnogo February (Czechoslovakia) (1985)
• Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, 1981)
• Order of the Red Banner (Mongolia, 1982)
• Order "For Military Merit" (Mongolia, 1971)
• Scharnhorst Order (East Germany, 1983)
• Order of the Flag of the Hungarian Republic with diamonds (Hungary, 1985)
• Order of Tudor Vladimirescu, 1st class (Romania, 1974)
• Order "For Military Merit", 1st class (Romania, 1985)
• Order of the National Flag (Ethiopia, 1982)
• Order of National Flag of Korea (North Korea, 1985)
• Order "The People's Republic of Bulgaria", 1st class (1985)
• Order "For military valour", 1st class (1983)

Faith-based

• Order of St. Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy, 2nd class