The first awarding of the Order of the Fatherland, III degree, took place on October 22, 1996.

For the courage and heroism shown in neutralizing especially dangerous criminals, the order was awarded to the senior inspector of the Orsha Department of Internal Affairs for Transport, police captain Mikhail Ivanovich Demyanov (posthumously).

For special merits in official activities aimed at strengthening the power of the country, the head of the control and inspection department of the Security Council of Belarus, Colonel Valentin Zakharovich Nikitin, was awarded the Order of the Fatherland, III degree.

For achieving high sports results, the order was awarded to the athlete-instructor of the national artistic gymnastics team of the Republic of Belarus, Ivan Aleksandrovich Ivankov.

[3] In the center of the star there is a circle with a diameter of 24 mm, in which there is an image of the State Emblem of the Republic of Belarus, framed by a wreath of oak and laurel leaves.