champion Ilham Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan Daniil Granin - writer (2009) Leonid Gorbenko - Governor of the Kaliningrad oblast Daniel (Nushiro) of Japan - Primate of the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Japan (2003) Nikolai Karpov - the first popularly elected mayor of Sochi (1996-2000), honorary citizen of the city of Sochi (2006) Mikhail Prokhorov - Russian businessman (2004) Viktor Yanukovych - President of Ukraine Igor Smirnov - President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Valery Gergiev - conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre Nursultan Nazarbayev - President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Mintimer Shaimiev - President of Tatarstan See also List of ecclesiastical decorations References Orders, decorations, and medals of the Russian Orthodox Church Awards established in 1988 1988 establishments in the Soviet Union