November 8 in the history of the homeland. The Order of Military Victory and the Order of Glory of three degrees were established in the Soviet Union. The Order of Glory for awarding privates and sergeants of the Red Army was established on November 8, 1943, the same day as the Order of Victory, the highest of the "Commander" orders in the Soviet Union. The Order of Victory was awarded twice to I.V. Stalin, C. K. Zhukov, A. from. Vasilevsky. In 1978, contrary to the statute of the order, it was awarded to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU L.I. Brezhnev. The Order of Glory had several characteristics that no other Soviet award had: it is the only military honor intended to be awarded exclusively to soldiers and sergeants (in aviation also to junior lieutenants); This is the only order of the Soviet Union that was issued only for personal honor and was never issued to military units, enterprises or organizations. The regulations of the order stipulated the promotion of masters of all three titles in rank, which was unusual for the Soviet award system. The order was established at the initiative of I.V. Stalin. It was created as a "soldier's command", but in line with those of the "commander". The first reliably established awarding of the Order of Fame took place on November 13, 1943, when the awarding of the Order of the Third Degree to Saboteur V.S. Melisheva The order for the awarding of the Order of Fame, Master's degree, was first signed on December 10, 1943; Saboteurs of the 10th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, private S.I., became cavalry. Barnov and A. third. And lastly, until the end of World War II they received the first degree of the Order. The first decree on the awarding of the Order of Fame, first degree, was signed on July 22, 1944. They were awarded to the saboteur-rebatorai M. A. Pitnik and Assistant Department Commander Senior Sergeant K. K. Shevchenko. The awarding of the Order of Fame lasted from November 1943 to the summer of 1945. For excellence in the battles of the Great Patriotic War and exploits in other military conflicts, about one million badges of the Order of Glory, third degree, more than 46 thousand were awarded. B. Ma'alot and 2678 -. and degrees.