HONOR

Established 16 April 1934, and awarded approximately 12,500 times during the existance of the USSR. After disintegration, it is now awarded as Hero of Russia.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ahmed Ben Bella	Head of State	25-Dec-1918	11-Apr-2012	President of Algeria, 1963-65
Vladimir Komarov	Astronaut	16-Mar-1927	24-Apr-1967	Pilot of Soyuz 1 plunged to his death
Alexei Leonov	Astronaut	30-May-1934		First man to walk in space
Andrian Nikolayev	Astronaut	5-Sep-1929	3-Jul-2004	Third Russian cosmonaut in space
Richard Sorge	Spy	4-Oct-1895	7-Nov-1944	Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa

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