Today, Vladimir Putin awarded the first "Heroes of labor"

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today the awarding of the first title "Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation", transmits radio "Voice of Russia" . The award ceremony of citizens who have achieved outstanding results in public and social activities take place in the Konstantin Palace near St. Petersburg.

Among the recipients - a prominent Soviet and Russian conductor and art director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev. Gergiev's artistic achievements have brought him worldwide fame and many awards and honors, among them - the honorary title "UNESCO Artist for Peace."

The title of "Hero of Labour" will be honored with Konstantin G. Chumanov - highly skilled turner 6-digit Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Instrument-Making Plant" g.Trehgorny Chelyabinsk region of the state corporation "Rosatom".

Another worker, whose labor services appreciated homeland, became Yuri Konnov - machine operator with 38 years of experience, one of the leading specialists of OOO "Russian-Agro". One of the first in the Voronezh region, he began to use advanced technology of agriculture - the cultivation of sugar beets without manual labor and hybrid sunflower seeds.

The title of "Hero of Labour" and the driver will be awarded the mining and excavation machinery mine "Kotinskaja" in Kemerovo Oblast Vladimir Melnik. In 2007 his team set a record for the annual all-Russian coal output - 4 million 414 thousand tons, and in March 2010 - a record monthly production - 707.2 thousand tons.

High award will receive a leading expert in the field of neurosurgery Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Academy of Medical Sciences, Institute of Neurosurgery NN Burdenko Alexander Konovalov. More than half a century of surgical activity Konovalov personally operated on more than ten thousand patients with the most complex neurosurgical pathology. It is scientifically proved, developed, and implemented the practice of a new direction - microneurosurgery.

The initiative to establish the title of "Hero of Labour" came up during a meeting between Vladimir Putin in December last year with the trustees who supported him during the presidential elections in Russia in 2012. At the conclusion of the first conference of the All-Russia People's Front, entitled "Building Social Justice," in Rostov-on-Don on March 29 Putin signed a decree "On establishment of the title of Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation."