Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov memainkan peran penting dalam memimpin pasukan Rusia perjalanan seluruh Eropa Timur untuk membebaskan Rusia dan negara-negara lain dari pendudukan Jerman di era Perang Dunia Kedua dan akhirnya menaklukkan ibukota Jerman sendiri, Berlin. Dia adalah jenderal paling dihiasi dalam sejarah Rusia. Lihat saja banyaknya medali yang dia punya. Di antara banyak jenderal terkemuka di Perang Dunia II , GK Zhukov ditempatkan di bagian atas dalam jumlah dan skala besar, kemenangan dan bakatnya dalam perintah operasional dan strategis diakui oleh banyak orang. Banyak pemimpin militer terkenal di dunia seperti Bernard Law Montgomery , Dwight David Eisenhower dan Jean de Lattre de Tassigny sudah mengakui Zhukov kontribusi besar dalam banyak kemenangan penting dalam Perang Dunia Kedua. Prestasi tempurnya menjadi warisan berharga dalam pengetahuan militer manusia, memberikan pengaruh besar pada kekuatan militer Rusia dan teori militer seluruh dunia. Penghargaan yang didapat diantaranya :

"Russian Imperial decorations"
Cross of St. George (4th and 3rd classes)

"Soviet Orders and Medals"
Order of Victory (Serial No. 1, 10 April 1944 and Serial No. 5, 30 March 1945)
Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union (29 August 1939, 29 July 1944, 1 June 1945, 1 December 1956)
Order of Lenin (16 August 1936, 29 August 1939, 21 February 1945, 1 December 1956, 1 December 1966, 1 December 1971)
Order of the October Revolution (22 February 1968)
Order of the Red Banner (31 August 1922, 3 November 1944, 20 June 1949)
Order of Suvorov, 1st class (Serial No. 1, 28 January 1943 and Serial No. 39, 28 July 1943)
Marshal's Star Honorary weapon - sword inscribed with golden national emblem of the Soviet Union (22 January 1968)
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

"Foreign awards"
Order of the Red Banner (Mongolian People's Republic, 1939 and 1942)
Order of the White Lion, 1st class (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Military Order of the White Lion "For Victory", 1st class (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Czechoslovak War Cross (Czechoslovakia, 1945)
Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (Poland, 1945)
Grand Cross of the Virtuti Militari (Poland, 1945)
Chief Commander, Legion of Merit (USA, 1945)
Honorary Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Bath, (military division) (UK, 1945)
Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur (France, 1945)
Medal "For Warsaw 1939-1945" (Poland, 1946)
Medal "for Oder, Nisu, and the Baltic Region" (Poland, 1946)
Medal "Sino-Soviet friendship", (China, 1953 and 1956)
Order of Freedom (SFR Yugoslavia, 1956)
Order of Military Merit, 1st class (Grand Cross of the Officer) (Egypt, 1956)
Garibaldi Medal (Italy, 1956)
Honorary Italian Partisan (Italy, 1956)
Commander's Cross with Star of the Polonia Restituta, (Poland, 1968, and Commander's Cross, 1973)
Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolian People's Republic, 1968, 1969, 1971)
Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (Mongolian People's Republic, 1969)
Croix de guerre (France)
Medal "30 year anniversary of the Battle of Khalkhin Gol" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1969)
Medal "50 years of the Mongolian People's Republic" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1971)
Medal "50 years of the Mongolian People's Army" (Mongolian People's Republic, 1971)
Medal "For Victory over Japan" (Mongolian People's Republic)
Medal "to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Georgiy Dimitrov" (Bulgaria)
Medal "25 years of the Bulgarian People's Army" (Bulgaria)

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Zhukov