Awards of citizens of foreign countries with covets and medals in the years of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Soviet Union’s award practice in relation to citizens of foreign countries during the Great Patriotic War and was written on the basis of new archival data. In the article the authors consider the chronology of awards for the war years and for the states participants, an analysis of the award practice is presented.