Talk:Orders, decorations, and medals of Russia

This is not and never was a mere list. It does not contain simple links to more in depth pages for each item. A mere list could not be printed into a book, this page can and has been printed as such. Each item is researched and relevant info as to institution date, award criteria and amendments to same criteria are incorporated. To date, this is the most complete compilation on the subject.

As per an earlier suggestion, this page will only contain State awards. All ministerial and departmental awards are being moved to dedicated pages linked from and to this one.

Transliteration
The transliteration in this article is from Cyrillic to Latin only and not from Cyrillic to Anglicised Latin. Й being J and Я being Ja (Etc.) without the Anglicisation.Boothferry (talk) 14:38, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

English used?
As it is, the article contains spelling in both American and British English. Either is fine, but according to the MOS, it should be one or the other, but never both within the same article. Before I make any changes, I thought I'd see if there is any preference. I don't think it matters either way, though I am more familiar with the American variety.-- Surv1v4l1st (Talk 16:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Done, the entire article is now in UK English. Hopefully future amendments will be in same. Fdutil (talk) 00:42, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Translation issue - 1st class or 1st degree
Russians say that an order is of "I степени", which literally means "1st step". There are two translations used in the English sources: "1st class" or "1st degree". The former is used in the Wikipedia articles, and while I respect it, it seems to me that the latter ("degree") is a more precise translation. See these degree versus class. --Kubanczyk (talk) 12:34, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

The term "degree" is indeed a better translation, albeit a bit too literal in this case IMHO. "Degree", is not a term used in English phaleristics. Different "degrees" have always been referred to as "classes" in the English speaking World and since the idea behind these articles is to pass information in the most comprehensive way, I believe it is best used here. The very same way our term would not fit at all in Russian and the reason why I endeavour to translate the true meaning of Russian texts vice a literal translation where the intent of the author is too often skewed or lost. Fdutil (talk) 04:45, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Partial Edits
Please try to refrain from partial edits of individual awards. User(s) modified the pictures of the Orders mentioned in the September 2010 Presidential Decree, the user(s) also modified the Decree date and number, unfortunately, no effort was made to modify the award criteria of the various affected awards. I am in the process of modifying these criteria directly from the Russian Presidential Decree. Fdutil (talk) 20:12, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Presidential Decree of September 2010
As stated above, I'm presently upgrading all write ups to the 2010 decree. Please take note that this includes a totally new order of precedence. I will endevour to correct the US versus "proper" UK English and the step/grade/class issue. Cheers! Fdutil (talk) 22:34, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Individual references
Every single Order in this article was modified in some form or another by the Presidential Decree mentioned above, all individual references were removed as they all now share a single written reference. A link to the Decree is both at the top and at bottom (in references) of the article. It would be nonsensical to add them anew solely to clutter up the page. Fdutil (talk) 04:52, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Medal "For Merit in the All-Russia Census"
This medal was stricken off the list of Russian Federation state awards by Presidential Decree 1099 of 7 September 2010. It was removed from this list. Fdutil (talk) 17:37, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Completeness regarding Russian Empire
Regardless of Russian Federation edicts, I personally find the conflation of Russian Empire, Soviet, and Russian Federation orders et al. rather confusing and also incomplete with regard to the Russian Empire. There should be List of orders, decorations, and medals of the Russian Empire and similar for the Soviet Union. P ЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 20:13, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

There's already one for the Soviet Union, as for the Russian Empire... Go right ahead my friend. Start the article, it might just blossom. Cheers! Fdutil (talk) 03:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. As I've been researching military history of the Russian army in Eastern Europe and the Baltics toward the end of WWI and after, I was finding far less information on WP as I expected, nearly all pointing to the Russian Federation versions of re-instituted decorations. P ЄTЄRS J V ►TALK 16:32, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

Medal "For Services to conduct census of the population"
Medal "For Services to conduct census of the population" (ru:Медаль «За заслуги в проведении Всероссийской переписи населения») was a state award between October 14, 2002 (Decree No. 1151) and September 7, 2010 (Decree No. 1099). --Reader85 (talk) 11:53, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Order of St. Catherine, Decoration For a Blessing
Please see the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 3, 2012 № 573. --Reader85 (talk) 14:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Article title
Who is responsible for this mess? STOP renaming this article! Can somebody please fix this? It is so screwed up I can't even undo or move it to it's acceptable title. Pick one! List of Orders, decorations and medals of the Russian Federation or Orders, decorations and medals of the Russian Federation. Non first language English speakers stay out of this please! Fdutil (talk) 04:35, 21 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Seems we lack a discussion on the title of this article. Some people seem to have a problem understanding the difference between the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.  These awards are not for all the countries of the CIS, but they are for all of the members of the RF!!  Why change the name to Russia only? Fdutil (talk) 15:58, 22 December 2016 (UTC)