Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 1st class
Type3 grade order
Awarded forExemplary service in the armed forces, during both war and peacetime
Presented bythe  Soviet Union
EligibilitySoviet Army, Navy, Air Force, Border Guard and Interior Troops
StatusNo longer awarded
EstablishedOctober 28, 1974
First awardedJuly 30, 1976
Last awardedDecember 19, 1991
Total13 first class,
589 second class,
69,567 third class
Ribbon of the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 1st class
RelatedOrder of Labour Glory (civilian)
Photograph of Lt Col Anatoly Lebed wearing his 3rd class Order.

The Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" (Russian: Орден «За службу Родине в Вооружённых Силах СССР»), also known as the Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", was a Soviet military order awarded in three classes for excellence to military personnel.


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