The publication of any book on faleristics is certainly a gratifying phenomenon, especially since this kind of literature can rarely be seen on store shelves. Awards of the USSR are an integral part of our history and culture as a whole. Looking at the photographs of the orders and medals that this book is so rich in, reading the dry lines of documents, orders for the establishment of awards, you can understand and appreciate the feat of the people who won during the Great Patriotic War, and then restored the destroyed in a short time, trace the difficult fate of people and countries from the beginning of the last century to the present day. The award is one of the forms of encouragement, evidence of recognition of special merits.