User:Coffeeandcrumbs/List of awards and honours received by Valentina Tereshkova

This is an incomplete list of awards and honours received by Valentina Tereshkova.

Soviet
She was decorated with the Hero of the Soviet Union medal, the USSR's highest award. She was also awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, numerous other medals, and foreign orders including the Karl Marx Order, United Nations Gold Medal of Peace, and the Simba International Women’s Movement Award. She was also bestowed the titles of the Hero of Socialist Labor in Czechoslovakia, Hero of Labor in Vietnam, and Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic.


 * Merited Master of Sports of the Soviet Union (June 1963)
 * Hero of the Soviet Union (1963)
 * Order of Lenin (1963, 1981 – for making progress on the development and strengthening of ties with the progressive community and peace-loving forces of foreign countries
 * Order of the October Revolution (1971)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1987) – for social activities
 * Order of the Friendship of Peoples
 * Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union (1963)

Other Warsaw Pact awards

 * Gold star Hero of Socialist Labour (Czechoslovakia) (August 1963)
 * Gold star Hero of Socialist Labour (Bulgaria) (Bulgaria, 9 September 1963)
 * Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 9 September 1963)
 * Order of Karl Marx (October 1963, East Germany)
 * Artur Becker Medal (October 1963, East Germany)
 * Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (October 1963, Poland)
 * Order of the National Flag with diamonds (Hungary, April 1965)
 * Order "For Achievements in Science" (Romania, 17 November 1973)
 * Medal "For Strengthening Brotherhood in Arms" (Bulgaria, 1976)
 * Order of Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia)

Streets in Ukraine that bore Tereshkova's name have been renamed due to the country's 2015 decommunisation law.

Other international awards

 * Order of Tri Shakti Patta, 1st class (Nepal, November 1963)
 * Star of the Republic of Indonesia, 2nd class (November 1963)
 * Order of the Volta (Ghana, January 1964)
 * "Gold Soyombo" Hero of Labour (Mongolia)
 * Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, May 1965)
 * Order of the Enlightenment (Afghanistan, August 1969)
 * Order of Planets (Jordan, December 1969)
 * Order of the Nile (Egypt, January 1971)
 * "Gold Star" Hero of Labour (Vietnam) (October 1971)
 * Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile, March 1972)
 * Order of the Yugoslav Flag with sash (November 1972)
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (Peru, 1974)
 * Order of Playa Girón (Cuba, 1974)
 * Order of Ana Betancourt (Cuba, 1974)
 * Order of Friendship (Laos, 1997)
 * Order of Duke Branimir, with sash (Croatia, 17 February 2003)
 * She received the Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation in 2007.

Russian

 * Order of Merit for the Fatherland:
 * 1st class (1 March 2017)
 * 2nd class (6 March 2007) – for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic space
 * 3rd class (6 March 1997) – for services to the state and the great personal contribution to the development of domestic space
 * Order of Alexander Nevsky (2013)
 * Order of Honour (10 June 2003) – for outstanding contribution to the development and strengthening of international scientific, cultural and social ties
 * Order of Friendship (2011) – for outstanding contribution to the development of national manned space flight and long-term fruitful public activity
 * Russian Federation State Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of humanitarian action in 2008 (4 June 2009)
 * Participant of the Military Operation in Syria Medal (2016)
 * Strengthening the Military Community Medal (2018)
 * Certificates of appreciation from the Government of the Russian Federation;
 * 16 June 2008, – for long-term fruitful state and public activities, considerable personal contribution to the development of manned space flight and in connection with the 45th anniversary of spaceflight
 * 12 June 2003, – for large contribution to the development of manned space flight
 * 3 March 1997, – for the contribution to the development of space, the strengthening of international scientific and cultural ties and years of diligent work

Scientific, social, and religious organisations

 * Gold Medal, Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR
 * Gold Medal of the British Society for interplanetary communications "For achievements in space exploration" (February 1964)
 * Gold Space Medal (FAI, 1963)
 * Award Galambera Astronautics
 * Gold Medal of Peace Joliot-Curie (France, 1964)
 * Order "Wind Rose" International Committee of the National Aeronautics and Space Missions
 * "Golden mimosa" of the Italian Union of Women (1963)
 * Sign of the Komsomol "For active in the League" (1963)
 * Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements (28 June 1963)
 * Honour of DOSAAF (1 July 1963)
 * Order of St. Euphrosyne, Grand Duchess of Moscow, 2nd class (2008)