your friends grandmother mustve been a proud soviet

донор (one with the red cross and red crescent)

donor/blood donor

уда́рник XII пятилетки (one in the top left)

shock worker 7 five year plan

ударник коммунистического труда (one in the middle right with the face of lenin)

shock worker of communist labor

ГВАРДИЯ (one in the top left inbetween the 5 year plan shock worker and double headed eagle)

Guard

Отличник Советской Армии (one in the bottom left inbetween the green one and the one with the <3>)

Student of Excellence of the Soviet Union

ВВ МВД «За отличие в службе» (one in the bottom far right)

Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union [Distinction in Service]

пожарно технический… выставка kalinin (one in the bottom right inbetween the ministry of internal affairs and Moscow Treasures pin, with the Katyusha vehicle)

Fire technical something, Exhibition Kalinin. Cant read the rest, probably an attendance or certification pin

Нори́льск CNC (middle left underneath the french pin)

Idk. Norilsk is a city in Russia

ударник xii пятилетки 12th five-year plan of the USSR

гвардия - soviet guard https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Советская_гвардия

донор (the one with the red cross) is obvs blood donation https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Почётный_донор_СССР

“Donor of the USSR” was awarded to persons who repeatedly donated blood to save the lives of the sick and injured in the defense of the socialist Fatherland, the protection of the State Border of the USSR and public order, natural disasters and accidents, while simultaneously working to involve the population in the ranks of donors"

bottom right Внутренние войска МВД (вв мвд) Internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Внутренние_войска_МВД_СССР

Ударник коммунистического труда https://ar.culture.ru/ru/subject/znachok-udarnik-kommunisticheskogo-truda

1 разряд is first category. it looks like its for javelin throw?

1941-1943 брянск is for Bryansk Front https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Брянский_фронт

Your friend’s grandma seems pretty cool.

I’l try. Left to right, top row:

Half cropped one: 3rd degree of i don’t really know what. Probably from amateur sports event. | Basic red star with hammer and sickle: no idea what they are. | One with the ship: don’t know. | “ударник XII пятилетки”: what it says, yes. Somebody worked their ass off in five-year-plan and got this thing to show for it. | “гвардия”: for service in soviet Red Guards. My granpa had one too. | Modern Russian CoA: no idea. | “I донор СССР”: donor USSR 1st degree. Usually for blood donations. | “1941-1943 брянск”: my grandfather had this one. Got if for beating nazis out of city of Bryansk, but it might be just a commemorative one and given to people who didn’t actually fight there for other reasons. | Blood drop one: you could get pins like this just for blood donations. | “ВВМВД”: i think that stands for “Внутренние Войска Министерства Внутренних Дел”. Internal Forces of Internal Affairs Ministry.

Middle, left-to-right:

Sickle and hammer with wings: i think it just a basic pin from Aeroflot uniform. | French thingy one: don’t know. | “воин-спортсмен I”: from some army sports event? | “III донор СССР”, like the one above, but third degree. | “1 разряд”: another sports degree of… Some sports, i guess. | Backpack dude: no idea, can’t read it in this resolution.

Bottom, l-r: “отличник советской армии”: for exceptional service in the soviet army, of course. My grandfather had a one like that but with a different design for some reason, i think? | 3: absolutely no idea. | “норильск CNC”: no idea what it is and what it has to do with Norilsk. | That huge one: no idea. | “ударник коммунистического труда”: probably related to 4th in first row. | “moscow treasures”: idk. | Next one: “пожарно-технич(еская?) выставка калинин”: firefighting equipment exhibition in Kalinin, apparently.

I’m going to guess most of not all were purchased at some gift shop while she was on vacation based on the pin that says Moscow Treasures, and the fact that one of the pins belongs to an Italian soccer team.