• Source: Order of Georgi Dimitrov

The Order of Georgi Dimitrov (or Order of Georgy Dimitrov, Bulgarian: Орден Георги Димитров) was the highest award of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. It was instituted on 17 June 1950 and awarded to Bulgarians and foreigners for outstanding services to the defence and freedom of Bulgaria, or for contributions to socialism. The award was the Bulgarian equivalent of the Order of Lenin, whose general design it imitated.
The award was named after Georgi Dimitrov, the pre-eminent Bulgarian communist of the inter-war and immediate post-war years.
About 4,500 awards were made. The order was automatically awarded to recipients of the Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and Hero of Socialist Labour titles. The award was withdrawn on 5 April 1991.
The medal consisted of a portrait of Dimitrov, surrounded by wreaths of grain, above a label with Dimitrov's name and topped by a small five-pointed star. It was of gilt, apart from the immediate background to Dimitrov's likeness, star and the name label, which were coloured dark red. It was hung on a dark red ribbon with red edges. It was originally designed by K. Lazarov and modified by O. Odabashyan.




Recipients



Soekarno
Todor Zhivkov
Petur Tanchev
Georgi Atanasov
Grisha Filipov
Alexi Ivanov
Pando Vanchev
Haile Selassie
Angel Dimitrov
Krum Vassilev
Kim Il Sung (twice)
Leonid Brezhnev (thrice)
Yuri Gagarin
Valentina Tereshkova
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Phạm Hùng
Yusuf M. Dadoo




See also


Hero of Labour




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Georgi Dimitrov
• Georgi Traykov
• Soekarno
• Leonid Brezhnev
• Gustáv Husák
• Daftar gelar dan tanda Kehormatan Haile Selassie
• Yuri Gagarin
• Siad Barre
• Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev
• Nikolai Tikhonov
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov
• Georgi Dimitrov
• Order of Lenin
• Georgi Ivanov (cosmonaut)
• Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
• Order of Karl Marx
• Blas Roca Calderio
• Nikolai Rukavishnikov
• Konstantin Chernenko
• Georgi Dimitrov (composer)