The Ordinance of Labor Slavs is the USSR state award, established on January 18, 1974 by the Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet . The creation of the order was supervised by the secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, M. P. Georgadze . The author of the Order is the artist of the Goznak factory, Yu. M. Egorov.
| Order of Labor Glory | |||
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| II degree | |||
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| III degree | |||
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| A country |  the USSR | ||
| Type of | order | ||
| Status | not given | ||
| Statistics | |||
| Options | Height 43 mm width - 41 mm, material - silver | ||
| Establishment Date | January 18, 1974 | ||
| First award | August 9, 1974 | ||
| Last award | December 21, 1991 | ||
| Number of awards | 1st degree - 983 2nd degree - approx. 50,000 3rd degree - more than 650,000 | ||
| Sequence | |||
| Senior award | Order of Glory III degree | ||
| Junior reward | Medal of Honor" | ||
The Order of Labor Glory has three degrees, the highest degree of the order is the first degree. Rewarding is performed sequentially: first, the third, then the second, then the first degree. This is the only Soviet order awarded for labor distinction, having a division into degrees. According to its statute and privileges granted to cavaliers of all three degrees, the order of Labor Glory corresponds to the military order of Glory .
The first awards of the Order of Labor Glory were made on August 9, 1974 , the Order of Labor Glory of the III degree for the early fulfillment of the five-year plan assignments and socialist obligations were awarded:
- Azovstal workers group
- miners of the Far East
- miners of the Kuzbass mine "Yubileinaya"
On January 7, 1983, 35 heroes of labor were the first full holders of the Order of Labor Glory. Driller of the production association Kasbburneftegazprom of the Azerbaijan SSR Vekil Hajaga oglu Abbasov received the Order of Labor Glory I degree number 1.
Among the full gentlemen of the Order there is one Hero of Socialist Labor ( B. I. Vashakidze ) and one Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation ( M.N. Gotovtsev ).
The last awards of the Order of Labor Glory in the history of the USSR took place on December 21, 1991 .
Content
Statute of the Order
The order is awarded to workers and masters of industry, transport, construction and other branches of material production, collective farmers and agricultural workers, as well as workers in the non-production sphere for their dedicated and highly productive long-term work in one enterprise, institution, organization, collective farm or state farm. Teachers (s), educators, and industrial education masters are also awarded for their success in teaching and educating children and adolescents, preparing them for life and work, and long-term work in a single educational institution.
The Order of Labor Glory consists of three degrees. The highest degree of the order is the first degree. Rewarding is performed sequentially: first, the third, then the second and, finally, the first degree.
Awarding the Order of Labor Glory is made:
- for high production rates, systematic over-fulfillment of development standards and plans;
- for achieving high productivity, manufacturing high quality products, saving materials and reducing labor costs;
- for innovation in labor, valuable inventions and innovation proposals, active participation in the development and use of new technology and advanced technology;
- for achieving high crop yields and livestock productivity;
- for a great labor contribution to reducing the time and improving the quality of construction of production facilities, cultural and residential facilities, residential buildings and their timely commissioning;
- for the great successes in the training and education of young workers, collective farmers;
- for success in the training and education of children and adolescents, preparing them for life and work.
Rewarding for the listed labor merit is made under the condition of many years of work in one enterprise, in an institution, organization, a collective farm or a state farm, in one educational institution.
Awarded with the Order of Labor Glory of all three degrees are entitled:
- to increase pensions by 15 percent;
- to provide living space at the established standards in the first place;
- personal free travel once a year (there and back) by railway transport - in soft cars of ambulance and passenger trains, by water transport - in cabins of the 1st class (places of the 1st category) of ambulances and passenger lines, by air or intercity road transport;
- personal free use of all types of urban passenger transport, in rural areas - by road of republican subordination within the region (except for taxis);
- to receive a free trip to a sanatorium or a rest home (once a year after the conclusion of a medical institution). The issuance of free vouchers to workers, production wizards, collective farmers, teachers (teachers), educators, industrial training masters is done at the place of work, non-working pensioners - the bodies that appointed pensions;
- for extraordinary service by entertainment and public utilities, cultural and educational institutions.
The Order of Labor Glory is worn on the left side of the chest after the Order of Glory and is arranged in order of precedence degrees.
Order Description
The Order of Labor Glory of I degree is a slightly convex gilded polygon. The polygon is framed in the upper part by five beams of diverging golden rays, and in the lower part by a wreath of three rows of wheat ears. Ears are intertwined with red enamel tape with the inscription "USSR". The ears of wheat, the inscription "USSR" and the contours of the ribbon are gilded .
In the central part of the order, against the background of diverging rays, covered with red enamel, there is a relief oxidized image of a blast furnace and a hydroelectric power station under construction, and gold plated sickle and hammer overhead.
The central part of the order is edged with the image of a gear wheel with a gold-plated inscription around the circle “WORKING GLORY”. Gear image is oxidized . At the top of the order is a five-pointed enamel red star with a gilded contour.
The Order of Labor Glory II degree differs from the I degree in that the upper part of the polygon with five beams of diverging rays has a silver color, and the central part of the order is covered with light blue enamel.
The Order of Labor Glory III degree gilded only two lower rows of wheat ears, ribbon outlines, the inscriptions "USSR" and "WORK OF GLORY." The rest of the order surface and overhead sickle and hammer are oxidized. Enamel in the central part of the order is missing.
The height of the order is 43 mm (47 mm including the eyelet in the upper part), width - 41 mm.
The Order of Labor Glory I, II and III degree was made of silver . Silver content in the order of any degree - 33.264 ± 1.389 g (as of September 18, 1975 ). The total weight of the order of the I and II degree is 36.16 ± 1.7 g. The total weight of the order of the III degree is 36.03 ± 1.7 g.
The Order with the aid of the ear and the ring is connected to a pentagonal block covered with a 24 mm wide silk moire ribbon with one longitudinal strip of dark gray and one strip of yellow colors. The width of the dark gray strip is 11 mm, the yellow one is 12 mm. In the middle of the yellow strip there are red longitudinal stripes: for the first degree - one, 5 mm wide, for the second - two, 2 mm wide each, and for the third degree - three, 1 mm wide each.
Order history
The Order of Labor Glory is the only one of the Soviet labor orders that had a division into degrees. According to the statute and order of awarding, as well as benefits granted to cavaliers of all three degrees, the Order of Labor Glory corresponds to the military order of Glory.
The author of the Order is the artist Yu. M. Egorov. The creation of the order was headed by the secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, M. P. Georgadze.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated February 19, 1981, the award was extended to workers and craftsmen of all branches of material production, as well as to workers in the non-production sphere. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 25, 1984, the award was extended to teachers, tutors and industrial training masters.
The first awards of the Order of Labor Glory were made by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 9, 1974. For the early fulfillment of the tasks of the five-year plan and socialist commitments, a group of workers of the Azovstal plant, miners of the Far East and the miners of the Kuzbass mine "Yubileinaya" were awarded the Order of Labor Glory of the III degree.
On August 21, 1974, at the Vladimir Ilyich Moscow Electromechanical Plant, the Order of Labor Glory, Third Degree No. 1, was given to the assembly fitter M. I. Kissin, No. 2 to the assembly fitter V. I. Polyakov, and No. 3 to the fitter B. A. Soshnikova of the Order of Labor Glory of the III degree with subsequent numbers were received by the mine workers of the Yubileinaya mine in Kuzbass Sergei Ivanovich Sizykh (badge number 4), Nikolai Yemelyanovich Zubkov (badge number 5), Andrei Vasilievich Kozlov (badge number 6), Andrei Vladimirovich Kondratev (badge number 7), Victor Andreevich Rodin (badge number 8), Petr Ivanovich Sab etsky (sign № 9) and Nicholas Ksenofontovich Semenjuk (sign № 10).
The first awards of the Order of Labor Glory of the II degree were made by Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 23, 1976. These Decrees awarded a large group of agricultural workers. The Order of Labor Glory II Degree No. 1 was awarded to N. I. Kuzmenko, a machine operator of the Novomikhailovsky state farm in the Kushchevsky district of the Krasnodar Territory.
Full holder of the Order of Labor Glory
The first full holders of the Order of Labor Glory, in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 7, 1983, in connection with the 60th anniversary of the formation of the USSR (December 30, 1982), were just 35 heroes of labor. The badge of the 1st degree from the number 1 was received by the driller of the Sanchagal drilling department of the production association Kasbburneftegazprom of the Azerbaijan SSR Vekil Hajaga oglu Abbasov. The badge of the first degree number 2 was received by the tractor driver of the collective farm named after Tukaya Apostovsky district of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic V.I. Averyanov. Sign number 3 was received by the machinist of the production boiler house of the Ust-Kamenogorsk lead-zinc plant them. V.I. Lenin of the East Kazakhstan region Kaiyrbek Ayzhigitov. Badge number 4 of the Order of the I degree was received by the combine operator of the collective farm "October" of the Ilishevsky region of the Bashkir ASSR Ragib Marvarddinovich Babertdinov. Sign number 5 was marked steelworker Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine them. V.I. Lenin Nikolai Filippovich Batraev. Among the first full cavaliers of the order was KG Sizykh, who had received the badge of the 3rd degree, number 4, the already mentioned miner of the Yubileinaya mine.
One of the last awards of the first degree order was held by Decree of the President of the USSR of December 18, 1991. According to this Decree, the Order was awarded to the milkmaid of the Kamensky tribal state farm in the Kaskelensky district of the Alma-Ata region, Kuzmenko Valentina Alexandrovna.
The last awards of the First Degree of Labor Glory in the history of the USSR took place according to the Decrees of the President of the USSR of December 21, 1991 Decree No. UP-3115 (on awarding railway transport workers) awarded Stenenkova Valentina Aleksandrovna, senior roadman of the Bryansk distance of the way. Decree No. UP-3121 (on awarding Moscow Metro workers) awarded Brigadier Elektrosleresereyamnyami SMU № 4 Mosmetrostroy I. Vishnyakov and S. Brigadier Locksmiths Special Works Management Mosmetrostroy Korovkin Yu. V.
The last in the history of the USSR awarding orders of Labor Glory III and II degree occurred on the same day, according to the Decree of the President of the USSR No. UP-3144 dated December 21, 1991 "On awarding orders and medals of the USSR to workers of the Magnitogorsk Industrial and Commercial Footwear Enterprise of the Russian State Light Industry Association ". For the achievement of high production rates in increasing the output of consumer goods, the order of the second degree was marked by the cutting of details Makhmutova Zulfiya Sagadtovna and the milling shoe Shakirova Musharafa Hasanovna. The order of the third degree was received by the cutting of details Dolgushev Vladimir Mikhailovich.
In total, as of January 1, 1992, 983 people were awarded the Order of Labor Glory of the I degree, 41 218 of the II degree, and 611 242 of the III degree [1] .
Modern Order History
In accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation dated March 2, 1992 No. 2424-1, the Order ceased to exist in the Russian Federation [2] .
In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 2, 1994 No. 442, the order was not recreated in the system of state awards of the Russian Federation [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Heroes of the country
- ↑ State awards of Russia: Regulatory legal acts Archived March 11, 2012.
- ↑ State awards of Russia: Regulatory legal acts Archived April 21, 2008.
Literature
- Kolesnikov G. A., Rozhkov A. M. Order and Medal of the USSR. - Mn. : Folk asveta, 1986. - p. 31-33.
- S. Potrashkov. Awards of the USSR, Russia and Ukraine. - Belgorod: Family Leisure Club, 2011. - p. 181-184. - ISBN 978-5-9910-1393-2 .