I will get my wife to get a picture of this medal and post it as soon as possible, front and back, I do remember the medal had this type of picture engraved on it, it shows the two banks of the river neva and the arrow indicating the push across and the bridgehead. Grandfather lived through the seige of Leningrad and all the horrors of it, he remembers eating sawdust cookies with motor oil holding the fine chips together. He told me about other stories of people eating the dead. One night in his encampment a young girl about 8 years old ran into the camp and woke the soldiers and him asking for protection from her parents. Apparently she had over heard her parents discussing that as soon as she was asleep they would kill her and eat her as they had no food. I cannot imagine what he lived through and what he saw. These are a few of the things he told me about. Its hard to talk to him as he doesn't speak any english so my wife with her limited english has to translate what I ask and then what he says. Also some of the questions get tough for him because he then remembers other things that he doesn't want to remember and then that conversational topic is closed. He likes to talk about his experiences in the war but there are certain things he doesn't want to remember. My wife told about one, at one time when they were fighting the finnish army he said that the most brutal troops he ever fought against were the Finnish womens battalions (thats right battalions of women soldiers), He said that on several occaisions they would find russian soldiers that had been skinned and hung from trees. Its no wonder at times he just stops talking and walks into the other room.