Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (obverse), type 2 post 1943
Type	Single-grade order
Awarded for	Accomplishments in labour, the civil service, literature, the arts and sciences
Presented by	Soviet Union
Eligibility	Soviet and foreign citizens. Institutions including factories
Status	No longer awarded
Established	December 28, 1920
First awarded	June 28, 1921
Last awarded	December 21, 1991
Total	1,224,590
Ribbon of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Related	Order of the Red Banner

The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (Russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, romanized: Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to the Soviet state and society in the fields of production, science, culture, literature, the arts, education, sports, health, social and other spheres of labour activities. It is the labour counterpart of the military Order of the Red Banner. A few institutions and factories, being the pride of Soviet Union, also received the order. The Order of the Red Banner of Labour was the third-highest civil award in the Soviet Union, after the Order of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution.

The Order of the Red Banner of Labour began solely as an award of the Russian SFSR on December 28, 1920. The all-Union equivalent was established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on September 7, 1928,^[1] and approved by another decree on September 15, 1928.^[2] The Order's statute and regulations were modified by multiple successive decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, on May 7, 1936,^[3] on June 19, 1943,^[4] on March 28, 1980,^[5] and on July 18, 1980.^[6]