Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🗓 On October 16, 1939, the Gold Star medal was established. It was awarded to those bestowed with the highest form of distinction - the title "Hero of the Soviet Union".
✏️ First sketches of the medal were done by the architect Miron Merzhanov, and the final version was created by the artist Ivan Dubasov.
🎖 The medal contains 95% gold and weighs approximately 21.5 grams. On its reverse side "Hero of the USSR" and the number of the medal are inscribed.
✈️ The first Gold Star was awarded to the Soviet pilot Anatoly Lyapidevsky for taking part in an aerial search and rescue operation for the crew of the steamship Cheliuskin, which had sunk in the Chukchi Sea. The last medal was received by Leonid Solodkov, a diving specialist at the State Scientific Research Institute of Rescue, Diving, and Deep Sea Work of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
🎖 The Gold Star was bestowed upon 12,777 people, 11,695 — during the #GreatPatrioticWar.
✏️ First sketches of the medal were done by the architect Miron Merzhanov, and the final version was created by the artist Ivan Dubasov.
🎖 The medal contains 95% gold and weighs approximately 21.5 grams. On its reverse side "Hero of the USSR" and the number of the medal are inscribed.
✈️ The first Gold Star was awarded to the Soviet pilot Anatoly Lyapidevsky for taking part in an aerial search and rescue operation for the crew of the steamship Cheliuskin, which had sunk in the Chukchi Sea. The last medal was received by Leonid Solodkov, a diving specialist at the State Scientific Research Institute of Rescue, Diving, and Deep Sea Work of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR.
🎖 The Gold Star was bestowed upon 12,777 people, 11,695 — during the #GreatPatrioticWar.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🗓 On October 28, 1944, the Red Army liberated the territory of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders.
🕯 During the years of the German occupation, Ukraine had a network of concentration camps, prisons & ghettos. There was a mass execution site in almost every city. Several million people died at the hands of the Nazis and their henchmen.
❗️ Tens of thousands of Ukrainian nationalists joined the Nazis, carrying out ethnic cleansings & massacres, brutally killing communists, Jews & civilians.
🎖 At the same time millions of Ukrainians fought in the Red Army against the Nazis, making a significant contribution to the victory of the USSR over Germany. Orders and medals were awarded to approximately 2.5 million Ukrainian soldiers, of which 2,021 became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
☝️ The liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders became one of the major milestones of the Great Patriotic War and allowed the Red Army to continue its victorious march on Berlin.
#GreatPatrioticWar #WeRemember
🕯 During the years of the German occupation, Ukraine had a network of concentration camps, prisons & ghettos. There was a mass execution site in almost every city. Several million people died at the hands of the Nazis and their henchmen.
❗️ Tens of thousands of Ukrainian nationalists joined the Nazis, carrying out ethnic cleansings & massacres, brutally killing communists, Jews & civilians.
🎖 At the same time millions of Ukrainians fought in the Red Army against the Nazis, making a significant contribution to the victory of the USSR over Germany. Orders and medals were awarded to approximately 2.5 million Ukrainian soldiers, of which 2,021 became Heroes of the Soviet Union.
☝️ The liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi invaders became one of the major milestones of the Great Patriotic War and allowed the Red Army to continue its victorious march on Berlin.
#GreatPatrioticWar #WeRemember