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Ceremony for presenting state decorations

The ceremony for presenting the highest state decorations of the Russian Federation took place at the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall.

May 23, 2023
15:10
The Kremlin, Moscow
56 photos
  • State decorations of the Russian Federation. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • State decorations of the Russian Federation. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Mintimer Shaimiyev before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ballet dancer and acting rector of the Academy of Choreography Sergei Polunin before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Medni Kadyrova before the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations.
  • At a ceremony for presenting state decorations.
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The title of the Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded to Alexander Kolesov, a volunteer, deputy commander of the 2nd BARS detachment, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The title of Hero of Russia and the honorary title Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation are awarded to Petr Dubrov, a test cosmonaut of the cosmonaut team at the Yuri Gagarin Research and Cosmonaut Training Centre. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Petr Dubrov, a test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Research and Cosmonaut Training Centre cosmonaut team, at the awards ceremony. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Mother Heroine title is awarded to Lyudmila Badmayeva. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The title of Mother Heroine was awarded to Medni Kadyrova. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of St Andrew the Apostle was awarded to President of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called is awarded to Mintimer Shaimiyev, State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Republican Foundation for the Revival of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Republic of Tatarstan. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • State Counsellor of the Republic of Tatarstan and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Republican Foundation for the Revival of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiyev at the awards ceremony. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order for Services to the Fatherland, III degree, is awarded to Hero of Russia Oleg Novitsky, an instructor and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Research and Cosmonaut Training Centre. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order for Services to the Fatherland, III degree, is awarded to Leonid Slutsky, head of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia faction in the State Duma. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order for Services to the Fatherland, IV degree, is awarded to People’s Artist of Russia Igor Butman, artistic director of the Moscow Jazz Orchestra. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order For Services to the Fatherland, IV degree, is awarded to Vasily Shestakov, President of the International SAMBO Federation.
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Alexander Nevsky is awarded to Vladimir Filippov, Director General of Tulatochmash. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Alexander Nevsky is awarded to Alexander Shkolnik, Director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, Moscow. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 Alexander Shkolnik at the awards ceremony. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Courage is awarded to Major General of Internal Service Arsen Grigoryan, Head of the Emergencies Ministry’s Main Department for the Tver Region. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Courage was awarded to Captain Dmitry Rasputikov, Deputy Group Commander of the 33rd Separate Special Operations Detachment of the Central Military District of the National Guard of Russia. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Medal For Valour is awarded to Alexander Yevstifeyev, member of the Sparta Battalion, Zaporozhye Region. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Medal For Saving Lives is awarded to Sergei Povolotsky, Head of the Military-Civilian Administration of the Velikaya Aleksandrovka District, Kherson Region. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Pirogov is awarded to Yevgeny Zhilitsyn, Head of the Children’s Department at the Republican Trauma Centre of the Healthcare Ministry of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Honour is awarded to Pandito Khambo Lama Damba Ayusheyev, Head of the Buddhist Traditional Sangha of Russia. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Honour is awarded to Olga Bas, Senator of the Russian Federation from the Lugansk People’s Republic. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Honour is awarded to Nikolai Savelyev, a turner of the United Engine Corporation. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Friendship is awarded to Rabbi Aharon Gurevich, department head at the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, which unifies the communities of Orthodox Judaism. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Friendship is awarded to Alexei Savelyev, a tractor driver at the agricultural farm Oktyabrskoye, Altai Territory. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Friendship is awarded to Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director of the Talent and Success Educational Foundation. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Hans-Joachim Frey, Artistic Director of the Talent and Success Educational Foundation, at the awards ceremony.
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Order of Friendship is awarded to Mufti Haydar Khafizov, Chair of the Regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title Merited Worker of Agriculture of the Russian Federation is awarded to Lira Mirzabekova, a milking machine operator at the agricultural farm Rubezh, Saratov Region. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Merit Badge For Impeccable Service is awarded to Sergei Lebedev, Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Merit Badge For Mentorship is awarded to Nina Okulova, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Sergei Polushin. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Merit Badge For Mentorship is awarded to Alexander Plesnev, a teacher at the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet School, a rescue worker, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kiselev. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • At a ceremony for presenting state decorations. Alexander Plesnev, a teacher at the Nizhny Novgorod Cadet School, a rescue worker, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kiselev, at the awards ceremony. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Merit Badge For Mentorship is awarded to Natalya Chebakova, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Dmitry Perminov. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Merit Badge For Mentorship is awarded to Nina Cheshayeva, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Alexander Cheshayev. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title People’s Teacher of the Russian Federation is awarded to Nina Budarina, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Alexei Osokin. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • At a ceremony for presenting state decorations. Nina Budarina, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Alexei Osokin, at the awards ceremony. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title Merited Worker of Physical Training of the Russian Federation is awarded to Sagit Ibragimov, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Artem Kuzin. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title Merited Teacher of the Russian Federation is awarded to Irina Konstantinova, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Alexei Kovalchuk. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title Merited Teacher of the Russian Federation is awarded to Tatyana Oshchepkova, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Pavel Ostanin. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. The Honorary Title Merited Teacher of the Russian Federation is awarded to Maria Trofimenko, teacher and mentor of Hero of the Russian Federation Eduard Tseyev. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Ceremony for presenting state decorations. With Sergei Polunin, ballet dancer and Acting Rector of the Sevastopol Academy of Choreography and holder of the Presidential Prize. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • At a ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Following the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Following the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS
  • Following the ceremony for presenting state decorations. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev, TASS

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Publication date: May 23, 2023, 15:10

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