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Ceremony presenting state decorations in the Kremlin

Vladimir Putin presented medals, orders and certificates conferring honorary titles to outstanding Russian citizens.

February 22, 2013
14:30
The Kremlin, Moscow
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  • Vladimir Putin opened the ceremony by presenting Mayor of Khabarovsk Alexander Sokolov with the document conferring the title of City of Military Glory on Khabarovsk for courage, fortitude and mass heroism of the city’s defenders in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Fatherland.
  • CEO of Interfax news agency Mikhail Komissar was awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, III degree.
  • Artist and member of the Russian Academy of the Arts Pyotr Ossovsky was awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, III degree.
  • Colonel Valery Asapov, commander of an army motorised rifle brigade was awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, IV degree.
  • First Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and the Far North and Far East Valentina Pivnenko was awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, IV degree.
  • Natalya Sarganova, who raised 35 foster children, was awarded the Order of the Holy Martyr Catherine.
  • Pavel Bulgakov, 1st rank captain and submarine commander, was awarded the Order of Courage.
  • Major Oleg Kogutnitsky, commander of a helicopter unit, was awarded the Order of Courage.
  • Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defence Committee Frantz Klintsevich was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
  • CEO of Research and Production Group Special Materials Corporation Mikhail Silnikov was awarded the Order for Military Services.
  • Alexei Grigoryev, CEO of JSC Techsnabexport (TENEX), was awarded the Order of Honour.
  • Anatoly Zapalov, a metalworker at GAZ car plant, was awarded the Order of Honour.
  • Tractor driver and engineer Vladimir Raikhenborg was awarded the Order of Honour.
  • Agricultural machine operator Alexander Timchenko was awarded the Order of Honour.
  • Director of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Olympic Reserve Training Centre Vera Shtelbaums was awarded the Order of Honour.
  • Director of the Moscow Academic Theatre of Satire Mamedali Agayev was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Leonid Bazuyev, a metalworker at Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk, was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Nikolai Kotikov, an electrical gas welder at Gazprom Transgaz Yekaterinburg, was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Konstantin Titov (Kornily), Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia of the Old-Rite Orthodox Church, was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Mikhail Sidorov, a metalworker at TsSKB-Progress, was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Astronomy Institute Boris Shustov was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • CEO of Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg Oleg Andreyev was awarded the medal of the Order for Services to the Fatherland, I degree.
  • CEO and Artistic Director of the Lvov Krushelnitskaya National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Tadey Eder was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Sergei Kivalov, a member of Ukraine’s national parliament, was awarded the Pushkin Medal.
  • Singer Bedros Kirkorov was awarded the honorary title People’s Artist of Russia.
  • Iosif Akopyan, general designer at JSC AGAT Moscow Research Institute, was awarded the honorary title Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation.
  • Viktor Dmitriyev, an assembly line adjuster at the Sinarsk Pipe Plant, was awarded the honorary title Merited Metalworker of the Russian Federation.
  • Crane engineer Yury Budanov was awarded the honorary title Merited Oil and Gas Industry Worker of the Russian Federation.
  • Electrical welder Nikolai Moiseyev was awarded the honorary title Merited Oil and Gas Industry Worker of the Russian Federation.
  • Galina Kalashnikova, a worker at the Magnitogorsk Bread Cmplex, was awarded the honorary title Merited Foodstuffs Industry Worker of the Russian Federation.
  • Valery Gritsoun, an electrical fitter at the Nikolayevsk Mine in Primorye Territory, was awarded the Order of Friendship.
  • Director of the Academy of Professional Development and Professional Retraining for Education Sector Employees Valentina Abaturova was awarded the honorary title Merited Teacher of the Russian Federation.

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Publication date: February 22, 2013, 14:30

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/17565

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