On October 27, 1944, the first award for the honorary title "Heroine Mother" took place.
A few days later, on November 1, 1944, in the Kremlin, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin presented the award to Anna Svelievna Aleksakhina, a resident of the village of Mamontovka in the Moscow region, who raised 12 children (ten sons and two daughters). Anna's eight sons went to the front of the Great Patriotic War, four of them died defending the Soviet homeland from the Nazi invaders. Today this award is kept in the State Historical Museum. The title and order of the same name were established on July 8, 1944. In 1980, "Heroine Mother" became an honorary title to the highest degree of distinction in the Soviet Union's award system. The last mission in the history of the Soviet Union took place on November 14, 1991. In total, about 430 thousand women received the title during the Soviet period.