Soviet City Jubilee Medals

[Guest Darrell]

Here are some Commemorative Medals:

1. 250 Years of Leningrad:

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2. 800 Years of Moscow:

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3. 1500 Years of Kiev:

[Gerd Becker]

They are very common, but hey, they are nice though. I only have this one so far, 250th Birthday of Leningrad.

Gerd

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[Guest Rick Research]

And (of course!) the relevant stiff paper award booklets:

Leningrad-- Cover bearing medal's title

and the inside,

to a former Starshina named Rozov (only know this from other documents... I have never seen a rank on any of these)

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while I don't have ANY for Moscow (gasp!), I have many (accident of my sources of collecting stuff) from Kiev--

this one to a retired WW2 naval engineering Rear Admiral named Kaidanov

[Gerd Becker]

I thought I posted mine in here before ... must have been some other forum 

Any way:

1. 250 Years of Leningrad

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You did post it before, Darrel. It was my fault :speechless-smiley-004:

Thanks to Rick for putting this threads in one.

Gerd

[Guest Darrell]

You did post it before, Darrel. It was my fault :speechless-smiley-004:

Thanks to Rick for putting this threads in one.

Gerd

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LOL ... I just opened this one and thought that I was going mad ... double posts

Anyway ... I took the pics out so it wasnt redundant ...

[Guest Rick Research]

Yup, my first "magic powers"-- found tWO threads because they were started under different names, so successfully combined them.

[Ed_Haynes]

Just to bump this thread . . .

. . . I finally added these (sadly) forgotten and ignored medals. All undocumented, ad interim.

[Belaruski]

What were these awarded for? As in what was the eligibility criteria. They're interesting medals, and I particularly like the Leningrad one!

[Eric Gaumann]

What were these awarded for? As in what was the eligibility criteria. They're interesting medals, and I particularly like the Leningrad one!

Verbatim from Putnikov:

"These medals were established by the decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet 20/09/47(Moscow), 16/05/57(Leningrad) and 10/05/82(Kiev). They were bestowed on approxiamtely 4 million people.

These medals were presented to persons who lived in these cities and who took part in their restoration and reconstruction, also those who participated in the defence of Moscow and Leningrad and in the liberation of Kiev."

[Paul R]

My all time favorite is the Moscow Anniversary.

[Ed_Haynes]

The Red Bible gives a fairly extensive coverage of these.

Finding them in groups isn't easy though.

Edited August 18, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

[order_of_victory]

Here is a group of Docs I sold on recetly with a 1500th Anniversary of Kiev

Order of Victory

[Paul R]

Were most of these given to civilians without any other awards? Did they ALL have document books issued with them? That would have been a full time job for several people!! Could you imagine sitting down with a city census book making out all of these medal booklets?

[Ed_Haynes]

Kiev Jubilee document to Lidiya Rodionovna Pokusova (Thanks, Rick!! ), wife of Lieutenant Vladimir Sidorovich Pokusov http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=22064. Have her medal. Haven't put up his document yet (he had the medal too), but threaten to do so.

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[Guest Rick Research]

She's Lidiya Rodionovna Pokusova, and quite a LATE award, on 22 April 1985!

[Ed_Haynes]

She's Lidiya Rodionovna Pokusova, and quite a LATE award, on 22 April 1985!

Thanks.

I, too, was strick by the late date, and hubby's was the same date (back-to-back awards?).

[Guest Rick Research]

Odd! All the ones I've ever seen were from 1982. They're all this generic pre-printed city issue, whether for retired admirals or former members of the security "organs." No distinction at all between former wartime defenders and long time but post-war residents on the award paperwork.

Comrade Grebennik's full set can be found in the Researched Group sub forum:

KGB issue Defense of Kiev =

but same generic Kiev jubilee as anybody else =