Order of Lenin: Quick Facts

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Notable Honorees

Nikita Khrushchev • Aleksandr Oparin • Viktor Ambartsumian • Georgy Zhukov • Alexander Volkov • Bruno Pontecorvo • Mirosław Hermaszewski • Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev • Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez • Valentina Tereshkova • Abdul Ahad Mohmand • Peretz Markish • Bertalan Farkas • Sigmund Jähn • Yevgeny Grishin • Leonid Leonidov • Georgi Ivanov • Gus Hall • Mikhail Tukhachevsky • Gherman Stepanovich Titov • Yuri Gagarin • Lev Ivanovich Yashin • Muhammed Faris • Aleksandr Medved • Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov • Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin • Igor Ilinsky • Mark Donskoy • Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev

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Illustration of the Order of Lenin medal from the USSR, featuring a red and gold ribbon attached to a medallion with a portrait of Lenin, a red star, and a hammer and sickle emblem.

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