Overview
- The presentation is scheduled for December 9 in the Georgievsky Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, according to the presidential press service.
- More than 200 military and civilian invitees are expected, including Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, cavaliers of the Order of St. George, and those awarded three or more Orders of Courage.
- The observance falls annually on December 9 under a 2007 federal law establishing the date as the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland.
- The holiday traces to the 1769 institution of the Order of St. George, which was restored in 1992 with its statute reinstated in 2000 and amended in 2008.
- Public counts show more than 1,200 people have received the Hero of the Russian Federation title since 1992, though exact figures remain unknown due to classified decrees.