Russian Federation Revamp of the Russian Awards System

[TacHel]

By presidential decree number 1099 dated 7 September 2010, the State Orders of the Russian Federation have gone through a major remork!

-Amended award criterias.

-New awards.

-Major changes to existing awards.

For example (see pic below), the Orders retained from the USSR (Nakhimov, Ushakov, Kutuzov, Suvorov etc) have been amended to a single degree and hung from a (5 corner mounted) ribbon for the left breast. The Order of Alexander Nevsky has been changed back to the Imperial model.

Will keep you appraised as I translate more of this quite lenghty decree.

Edited January 22, 2012 by TacHel

[army historian]

Great, it appears they are moving back in design to pre-soviet times. Bravo! Cheers Captain Albert

[TacHel]

I am presently translating the 100+ page document to English. I will post it in here once finished.

Some of the major changes to date:

-All Soviet Era Orders and medals are now after modern Russian Federation awards in the order of precedense.

-Soviet Orders will be mounted after Russian Orders but in front of decorations/medals.

-Soviet decorations/medals will be mounted after their modern Russian counterparts but still in front of commemorative medals.

-Soviet commemorative medals will be mounted after their modern Russian counterparts.

(The firms who mount medals are going to have a very brisk business in the coming months!)

-As mentioned in the initial post, the Orders retained from the Soviet Era will now be ribbon mounted and reduced to a single grade (class/degree).

Although bearing the same names as their Soviet Era predecessors (Nakhimov, Ushakov, Kutuzov, Suvorov, Nevsky), these are modern Russian Orders with precedense over the old Orders.

-Commemorative medals produced and bestowed by the state (300 Years of the Russian Navy, 1000th Anniversary of Kazan, 65th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, etc) are no longer considered "state awards". The key word here is "award".

-New medals have been produced to complement existing Orders in order to increase the number of degrees to better match previous (Soviet Era ODMs) such as the "Medal for Parental Glory" (4 children) which now complements the "Order of Parental Glory" (7 children).

More to come as my translation progresses.

Edited October 8, 2010 by TacHel

[TacHel]

Am now about 3/4 of the way in the translation.

New:

The Order of Alexander Nevsky is no longer a military award.

The Order of Parental Glory now has a medal for fewer children.

More to follow...

[Ferdinand]

Interesting! The new designs look pretty good.

[TacHel]

Sorry for taking so long in translating this quite extensive document.

Major changes:

-Order of Alexander Nevsky is a purely civilian award;

-Medal for merit in the all Russian census is removed from the list of state ODMs.

Below is the new Order of Precedence for Russian State ODMs.

The title of Hero of the Russian Federation;

Order of St. Andrew;

Order of Saint George;

Order " For Merit to The Fatherland";

Order of Alexander Nevsky;

Order of Suvorov;

Order of Ushakov;

Order of Zhukov;

Order of Kutuzov;

Order Nakhimov;

Order of Courage;

"Order of Military Merit";

"Order of Naval Merit";

Medal of Honour;

Order of Friendship;

Order "Parental glory";

St. George Cross;

Insignia "For meritorious service";

Medal of the Order "For Merit to The Fatherland ";

Medal "For Bravery";

Medal of Suvorov;

Medal of Zhukov;

Medal of Ushakov;

Medal of Nesterov;

Medal of Pushkin;

Medal "Defender of a Free Russia";

Medal "For Distinction in Protection of Public Order";

Medal "For Distinction in Protection of the State Borders";

Medal "For Life Saving";

Medal "For work in agriculture";

Medal "For development of the railways";

Medal "For Service in outer space exploration";

Medal of the Order of "Parental glory";

"Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation";

"People's Artist of Russia";

"People's Architect of the Russian Federation";

"People's Teacher of the Russian Federation";

"People's Artist of the Russian Federation";

All other honorary titles of the Russian Federation…

[Megan]

Aargh... noble work, Frank... but now even more to do :)

[TacHel]

Meg... Hope you're sitting down... They changed it again... Not that bad, 2 moves, Order of Frienship and Medal of Ushakov.

New 2011 Order of Precedence of State ODMs by Presidential Decree 1631 dated 16 December 2011.

Order of St. Andrew;

Order of Saint George;

Order "For Merit";

Order of Alexander Nevsky;

Order of Friendship;

Order of Suvorov;

Order of Ushakov;

Order of Zhukov;

Order of Kutuzov;

Order Nakhimov;

Order of Courage;

"Order for Military Merit";

"Order for Naval Merit";

Order of Honor;

Order of Parent Glory

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St George Cross;

Medal of the Order "For Merit";

Medal "For Courage";

Medal of Suvorov;

Medal of Ushakov;

Zhukov Medal;

Medal of Nesterov;

Medal of Pushkin;

Medal "Defender of a Free Russia";

Medal "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order";

Medal "For Distinction in the Protection of the State Border";

Medal "For Life Saving";

Medal "For Work in Agriculture";

Medal "For the Development of the Railways";

Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration";

Medal of the Order of "Parental Glory".

Edited February 7, 2012 by TacHel

[Megan]

I am sitting down...

But am thinking of going and writing about South Africa instead, last night I found where they have all their regulations!

Seriously, thanks... Do you have a copy (or link to) the decree, please?

[TacHel]

I am sitting down... But am thinking of going and writing about South Africa instead, last night I found where they have all their regulations! Seriously, thanks... Do you have a copy (or link to) the decree, please?

Link to the Order on the site of the President of Russia Multiple pages!

Link to GARANT Legal Archives - same Order Just as long but on a single page. Both are in Russian.

[Megan]

Thank you, dear heart. And as you know, I read Russian!

Of course, now the South African government has offered to send me ALL their material...

So it is likely I shall be oscillating between the two.

[TacHel]

Want me to call Medvedev? He still owes me $20... ;)