title: Nikolay Travkin
text: # Nikolay Travkin
  
  Nikolay Ilyich Travkin (Russian: Николай Ильич Травкин) (born 19 March 1946) is a Russian and former Soviet politician, former member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, member of State Duma and member of the Government of the Russian Federation (1994-1996).
  
  In March 1990 he resigned from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and founded the Democratic Party of Russia.
  
  ## Awards and decorations
  
  * Hero of Socialist Labor (comes with the Order of Lenin, 1986)
  * Order of the Red Banner of Labour
  * Order of Merit for the Fatherland (1996)
  