Hero cities of the Soviet Union Города-герои

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Brest Litovsk Breść nad Bugiem Minsk Moscow Moskwa Sevastopol Odessa Leningrad Saint Petersburg Novorossisk Tula Stalingrad Volgograd Murmansk Kiev Smolensk
Ленинград Санкт-Петербург Сталинград Волгоград Севастополь Одесса Киев Москва Брестская крепость Крепость-Герой Новороссийск Керчь Минск Тула Мурманск Смоленск

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR introduced the idea of Hero Cities on the 20th anniversary of the beginning of WW2 on 22 June 1961. Hero status was then given to Leningrad, Volgograd (former Stalingrad), Kiev, Sevastopol, and Odessa. Additionally, Moscow was declared Hero City and Brest declared Hero-Fortress.

Subsequent awards were issued as follows:

September 14, 1973: Kerch and Novorossiysk.
June 26, 1974: Minsk
December 7, 1976: Tula
May 6, 1985: Murmansk, Smolensk

In 1988 the issuance of the award was officially discontinued.

However the usage of the term "hero-city" is dated to articles in Pravda as early as in 1942. The first official usage of the title is dated by May 1, 1945, when Joseph Stalin issued his Supreme Commander Order #20 commanding to fire salutes in "hero cities Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevastopol, and Odessa."

On 5 April 2005 the State Duma of Russian Federation passed the law in the first reading about the introduction of the honorary title "City of Military Glory" (Город воинской славы). Potential candidates are places of fierce battles: Oryol, Rzhev, Yelnya, Voronezh, Vyazma, and others.

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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- http://www.ceepackaging.com - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region.
In 1997 I founded Polish Business News http://www.pbn.com.pl .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
My blog can be found via http://www.ceepackaging.com and http://www.pbn.com.pl and contains background information and more details of many of my films. This information is in English.