Russian President Vladimir Putin handed out, on Monday, the first "Mother Heroine" awards since bringing back the Soviet-era title for women with more than ten children.
Among those awarded was Medni Kadyrova, the wife of Chechen Leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
"For great merits in strengthening the institution of the family and raising children," a Kremlin decree said.
Kadyrov has been supporting Putin amid his crisis with Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military operation in February.
He has a large family and has even promised to send his teenage sons to the front.
The Russian leader also declared a woman from the Arctic Yamalo-Nenets region a Heroine Mother.
Soviet authorities handed out the title to women with many children between 1944 and 1991.
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