Putin : The ceremony took place in the Catherine’s Hall of the Kremlin.
– Both Russia and the whole world are now going through the test of a pandemic. Yes, the situation remains difficult, but life goes on. And now both our common solidarity and positive events that can serve as a fulcrum are important. Such an event is the presentation of state awards, as an expression of deep gratitude to our worthy fellow citizens, – Putin said at the beginning of the event.
Who received what awards:
HERO OF RUSSIA
Test pilot Evgeny Velikhov.
HERO OF LABOR
Academician Evgeny Velikhov
Endocrinologist Ivan Dedov
Director General of the Kuban Cossack Choir Viktor Zakharchenko
Maryana Lysenko, head physician of the Moscow hospital N52
Head of Gazprom Alexey Miller
Deputy Director of UEC-Saturn Viktor Polyakov
ORDER FOR MERIT TO THE FATHERLAND, 1st DEGREE
Director General of Public Television of Russia Vitaly Ignatenko
State Councilor of Justice 1st class, Hero of the USSR Boris Kravtsov
State Duma Deputy Vladimir Resin
Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev
ORDER FOR MERIT TO THE FATHERLAND, 3rd DEGREE
Artistic Director of the State Kremlin Palace
ORDER FOR MERIT TO THE FATHERLAND 4 DEGREE
Perfumer Lyadkovskaya Antonina
ORDER OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
ORDER OF COURAGE
Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies Mikhail Fradkov
ORDER OF PIE
Academician Andrei Kaprin
Head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency Veronika Skvortsova
ORDER OF FRIENDSHIP
Ophthalmologist Yousef Naim Yousef
HONORED WORKER OF PHYSICAL CULTURE OF RUSSIA:
Mikhail Rakhlin, President of the Judo Federation of St. Petersburg
