Hero City
The statute of the title was officially introduced on May 8, 1965, by the "ukase" of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. The same day ukases were issued about awarding the cities mentioned above: Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), Volgograd (former Stalingrad), Kyiv, Sevastopol, and Odessa. However traditionally for these cities the anniversaries of being Hero City correspond to the dates mentioned earlier. Additionally, Moscow was declared Hero City and Brest declared "Hero Fortress".