Order of Mother Heroine + booklet

**Auke** · 10-11-2011, 03:31 PM

I thought I'd post my newest addition, an Order of Mother Heroine with its order booklet. This one (#9517) was awarded on May 3, 1946 to Akulina Aleksandrovna Ryabova for giving birth to and raising ten children. I'm still looking for a WW2 issue of the Order of Mother Heroine, but this comes close. The order was instituted on July 8, 1944 and awarded up until 1991. All in all approximately 431,000 women were decorated with this order, so 9517 is a rather low number.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-11-2011 03:31 PM

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**Auke** · 10-11-2011, 03:36 PM

The document was filled out on August 8, 1946 and bears the actual signatures of Nikolai Shvernik, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and Aleksandr Gorkin, the Presidium Secretary.