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rockets pointing towards the upper left and upper right. The rockets' nose cones and tail sections were gilded. The top star was made up of diverging rays, at its center, a circular medallion containing a convex five pointed star within an oak wreath on a blue background, surrounded by a white enamelled ribbon with the inscription: "For
Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" (
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yearly free round trip personal travel by rail (express or passenger trains), by ship (in first class cabins, express or passenger lines), by air or by long-distance road transport;
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The Order "For
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free vouchers to a sanatorium or rest home (once a year on the recommendation of a medical institution);
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Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR"
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For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South
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Exemplary service in the armed forces, during both war and peacetime
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Major General of Internal Troops Aleksandr Verevkin (1 March 1989)
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awarded in three classes for excellence to military personnel.
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The main differences between the three classes of the Order:
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1st class - blue with a 6mm wide yellow central stripe;
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Test Cosmonaut Colonel Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
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