The President signed Executive Order On Awarding the Order of St Andrew the Apostle to Sergei Lavrov. 

Vladimir Putin met with Olga, the widow of Hero of Russia Sergei Chebnev. The President presented to her the Gold Star medal which was awarded to her husband posthumously.

A ceremony for presenting state decorations to officers of the Defence Ministry and the Russian National Guard was held in the Kremlin.

Vladimir Putin presented the Order of Alexander Nevsky to the team of Radar MMS, a research and production enterprise, for outstanding achievements in strengthening the defence capabilities of the Russian Federation.

At the Leningrad Victory concert dedicated to the 80^th anniversary of Victory and the 81^st anniversary of the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade, Vladimir Putin presented veterans with jubilee medals, “80 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.”

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Awarding the Title of Hero of the Russian Federation to Corporal Andrei Grigoryev.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Awarding the Order for Services to the Fatherland, I Degree, to Mikhail Boyarsky.

Vladimir Putin visited the State Hermitage Museum and presented the Order for Services to the Fatherland, I Degree, to museum’s Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky.

The President presented the highest state decorations of the Russian Federation at the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall.

On Heroes of the Fatherland Day, a ceremony for presenting Gold Star medals to Heroes of Russia took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Awarding the Title of Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation to Alexandra Pakhmutova.

Vladimir Putin presented the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, the highest state decoration of the Russian Federation, to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in a ceremony held in St Andrew’s Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

During a visit to the multidisciplinary clinic of the Kirov Military Medical Academy under the Defence Ministry, Vladimir Putin met with Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Danilov, who had led the defence of the village of Malaya Loknya in the Kursk Region.

Vladimir Putin signed an Executive Order Bestowing the Order of St Andrew the Apostle the First-Called on President of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the Supreme State Council of the Union State Alexander Lukashenko.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order on Awarding Natalya Solzhenitsyna with the Order for Services to the Fatherland, III Degree.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Awarding the Order of Honour to President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Awarding the Title Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation to Gennady Zyuganov.

As is traditional, on Russia Day, the President presented the Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation gold medals and the 2023 Russian Federation National Awards in science and technology, literature and the arts, and for outstanding achievements in human rights and charity work in the Grand Kremlin Palace’s St George Hall.

The President presented the highest state decorations of the Russian Federation at the St. Catherine Hall in the Kremlin.