Order of Lenin

The Order of Lenin ( ????? ??????), named after the leader of the Russian Revolution, was the second highest national order of the Soviet Union (Highest was the Order of Victory). The Order was bestowed for the following:

Sample List of Recipients

• All 14 SSR's and the RSFSR
• Cities
• Moscow
• Companies
• Pravda (Newspaper)
• People
• Fidel Castro (Cuban Leader)
• Yuri Gagarin (Cosmonaut)
• George Formby (British Actor) http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/onthefuture/A622568
• Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Premier)
• Kim Philby (British/Soviet Double Agent) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby
• Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia 1945-1980) http://www.titoville.com/odlikovanja.html
• Lev Yashin (Soviet Football Goalkeeper)
• Yakov Zel'dovich (Soviet scientist)
• Georgy Zhukov (Marshal of the SU)