Order of the Patriotic War

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Order of the Patriotic War
The Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class (obverse left, reverse right)
Type	Two-grade order
Awarded for	Heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War, later awarded to all surviving veterans of the war.
Presented by	Soviet Union
Eligibility	Soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, partisans, and allied personnel.
Status	No longer awarded
Established	20 May 1942
Last awarded	1985 to surviving veterans of the war
Total	1,370,000 during the war 9,175,595 following 1985 awards
US-sized ribbon of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class US-sized ribbon of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
Precedence
Next (higher)	Order of the Red Star
Next (lower)	Order of Alexander Nevsky

The Order of the Patriotic War (Russian: Орден Отечественной войны, romanized: Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisans for heroic deeds during the German-Soviet War, known since the mid-1960s in the former Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War.