On November 8, 1943, by decree of the Presidency of the Supreme Council, the Order of Glory was established.
The Order of Glory is a military order of the Soviet Union. It was awarded to privates and sergeants of the Red Army, and in aviation, to people of the rank of junior lieutenant, who showed glorious achievements of courage, bravery and fearlessness in battles for the Soviet homeland.
The Order of Fame had three degrees: I, II and III. The highest rank of the order was the first degree. The awards were made in sequence: first with the third, then with the second and finally with the first degree.
The first full holders of the Order of Glory, according to the Presidential Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union of July 22, 1944, were the soldiers of the Third Belorussian Front - the saboteur Corporal Mitropan Pitanin and the senior intelligence officer Sergeant Konstantin Shevchenko. The orders of glory, first degree, for numbers 1 and 2 were awarded to the soldiers of the Leningrad front, the senior infantryman of the guard Nikolai Zaltov and the patrol sergeant of the guard Viktor Ivanov.
In January 1945, for the only time in the award's history, the Order of Glory was awarded to each rank of a military unit. This honor was awarded to the 1st Rifle Battalion of the 215th Red Banner Regiment of the 77th Chernigov Guards Rifle Division for heroism in breaking through enemy defenses on the Vistula River.
In total, about 980 thousand people were awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, about 46 thousand became holders of the Order of the 2nd degree, 2,656 soldiers were awarded the Order of Glory of three degrees (including those that were re-awarded).
Four women became full-fledged holders of the Order of Fame: guard gunner-radio operator Sergeant Nadezhda Zhurkina-Kaik, machine gunner Sergeant Danuta Stanilina-Markauskyina, medical instructor Sergeant Matryona Nechaporchukova-Nazdarcheva and sniper of the 86th Rifle Division of Tartu Sergeant Nina Petrova.
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