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    • 3 years later...
    Posted

    A bit of a shot in the dark on this one on a thread that hasn't had activity for a few years, but I am strongly suspecting that this Defense of the Soviet Transarctic medal is an "Umalatova" reissue. Would love to get others' confirmation or thoughts.  

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    Posted

    The list I have (although I have enough on my plate with state-issed medals to be diligent with for-profit inventions) is:

    • Jubilee Medal "to mark the centenary of Leonid Brezhnev"
    • Medal "Veteran of State Security"
    • Medal "90 years of Border troops"
    • Medal "90 years of the Russian Militia"
    • Medal "Veteran of the MVD"
    • Medal "Day of Artillery and Rocket troops"
    • Commemorative Medal "65 years of the Battle of Kursk"
    • Commemorative Medal "65 years of the Battle of Stalingrad"
    • Medal "Navy Veteran"
    • Medal "50 years of the submarine Leninskii Komsomol"
    • Medal "The Varyag Cruiser Monument"
    • Commemorative Medal "for Service at Baikonur"
    • Medal "Space exploration" (50 years)
    • Commemorative Medal "Tomsk School of Communication" (80 years)
    • Jubilee Medal "Veteran of Air Defense Forces"
    • Commemorative Medal "50 Years of Strategic Rocket Troops"
    • Commemorative Medal "Veteran of Borders Troops"
    • Order "For Service to Russia"
    • Medal "100 years of Russian submarine fleet"
    • Medal "Veteran of the GRU Spetsnaz"
    • Medal "Veteran of the Air Force"
    • Medal for "Defender of the Borders of the Fatherland"
    • Commemorative Medal "65 years of Defense of Moscow"
    • Commemorative Medal "Participant in the Afghan War"
    • Order of duty and honor
    • Order "Marshal Zhukov"
    • Commemorative Medal "65 Years of the Fall of Berlin"
    • Medal for Partificpation in Local Conflicts
    • Medal for Distinction in Border Guard Service
    • 4 weeks later...
    Posted (edited)

    Just had to say thanks to "nickstrenk".  Really, I did.  A medal of Brezhnev?  Indeed!

     

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    Addendum:

    What's next...  A medal of "you-know-who"?

     

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    Edited by ChrisKelly

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