Soviet USSR 1970 RARE Medal "100th Anniversary of the birth of Lenin" +document

Description: Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (obverse)TypeCommemorative medalAwarded forExcellence in civilian or military service to the Socialist StatePresented by Soviet UnionEligibilityCitizens of the Soviet Union and foreign nationalsStatusNo longer awardedEstablishedNovember 5, 1969TotalCivilian – 9,000,000 Military – 2,000,000 Foreign – 5,000Ribbon of the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on November 5, 1969[1] to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin. Its statute was amended on July 18, 1980, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.[2] It was awarded to eminent members of Soviet society, the military leadership and foreign members of the international communist and labour movements.Medal StatuteThe Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on behalf of the joint resolutions of the republican, territorial and regional Party offices, bodies of government and trade unions, orders of the Minister of Defence, of the Minister of Internal Affairs, of the Chairman of the State Security Committee of the Council of Ministers, of the Commanders of the Armed Forces of the USSR, commanders of military districts, groups of forces, air defence districts and fleets. It was produced and awarded under three official designations, one civilian, one military, the last for award to foreigners. Each is distinguishable from the other by the awards' full names. The civilian award was called The Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour – In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль «За доблестный труд – В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина»), the military award was called The Jubilee Medal "For Military Valour – In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль «За воинскую доблесть – В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина»), the award to foreigners bore the award's basic designation.For Valiant LabourThe Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour – In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was awarded to highly skilled senior workers, farmers, specialists of the national economy, employees of public institutions and public organizations, scientists and cultural figures, who displayed the highest examples of work in preparation for the anniversary of Lenin; to those who took an active part in the struggle for the establishment of Soviet power, or to protect the homeland, or who have made a significant contribution to their work in the building of socialism in the USSR, who helped the party to educate the younger generation by their personal example and social activities.For Military ValourThe Jubilee Medal "For Military Valour – In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Army, sailors of the Navy, troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, troops of the State Security Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, who displayed excellent performance in combat and political training, good results in the management and maintenance of combat readiness in preparation for the anniversary of Lenin.For Foreign LeadersThe (basic) Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was awarded to foreign leaders of the international communist and labour movement and other progressive activists abroad.[1]The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" is worn on the left breast and when worn with orders and medals of the Soviet Union, placed above them but below the "Gold Star" medal of Hero of the Soviet Union and/or the gold medal "Hammer and Sickle" of Hero of Socialist Labour, in their absence, in their place. When not worn, the ribbon of the medal should be located immediately after the ribbon of the Medal "For Distinguished Labour" in the ribbon bar.[1][2] If worn in the presence or Orders or medals of the Russian Federation, the latter have precedence.[3]Each medal came with an attestation of award, this attestation came in the form of a small 8 cm by 11 cm cardboard booklet bearing the award's name, the recipient's particulars and an official stamp and signature on the inside.[1]Attestation document for the Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour – In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (cover and inside pages)Medal description[edit]The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was a 32mm in diameter circular brass medal. All three variants, civilian, military and for award to foreigners shared the basic design. On a matte finished obverse, the polished left profile of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin over the relief dates "1870 – 1970". The reverse bore at its center the horizontal relief inscription on four lines "TO COMMEMORATE THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF V.I. LENIN" (Russian: «В ОЗНАМЕНОВАНИЕ 100-ЛЕТИЯ СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ В. И. ЛЕНИНА»), above the inscription, the relief image of the hammer and sickle, below the inscription, the relief image of a small five pointed star. The variant to Soviet civilians also bore the relief inscription along the upper medal circumference "FOR VALIANT LABOUR" (Russian: «ЗА ДОБЛЕСТНЫЙ ТРУД»), the military variant bore the relief inscription along the upper medal circumference "FOR MILITARY VALOUR" (Russian: «ЗА ВОИНСКУЮ ДОБЛЕСТЬ»), on the award to foreigners, these inscriptions were omitted.[1]The Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" was secured by a ring through the medal suspension loop to a small 29mm wide by 25mm high rectangular mount covered by a 24mm wide red silk moiré ribbon with 2mm yellow edge stripes and two 1mm yellow central stripes separated by 2mm.[1]Common obverseReverse "For Valiant Labour"Reverse "For Military Valour"Reverse to foreign leadersRecipients[edit]This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.Mstislav Rostropovich, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"Boris Yeltsin, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"GDR Army General Heinz Kessler, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" for foreign nationalsCuban president Raúl Castro, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" for foreign nationalsThe individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"Soviet recipients "For Valiant Labour"[edit]Cellist and conductor Mstislav RostropovichPhysicist Alexander ProkhorovBusinessman, politician and statesman Viktor ChernomyrdinPolitician and statesman Mikhail FradkovPoet Rimma Fyodorovna KazakovaCosmonaut Vitaly Ivanovich SevastyanovTest pilot Vladimir IlyushinSurgeon Grigory Sarkisovich GrigoryantsPolitician Vladimir DolgikhMezzo-soprano opera singer Zara Aleksandrova DolukhanovaPolitician and economist Sopubek BegalievActress Elina BystritskayaPolitician Kamil IskhakovCosmonaut Aleksei Stanislavovich YeliseyevBallerina Olga Vasiliyevna LepeshinskayaTatar composer and pianist Röstäm Möxämmätxaci ulı YaxinGeorgian linguist and philologist Akaki Gavrilovich ShanidzeFirst President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolayevich YeltsinRocket scientist Peter Dmitrievich GrushinFilmmaker Marlen Martynovich KhutsievAzerbaijani ophthalmologist Sona Akhundova-BagirbekovaUkrainian physicist Halyna PuchkivskaSeamstress Lyudmila ByakovaMaster builder Zukhra ValeevaSoviet recipients "For Military Valour"[edit]Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy ZhukovSniper captain Vasily ZaytsevMarshal of the Soviet Union and Defence Minister Dmitriy Feodorovich UstinovAce fighter pilot and Marshal of Aviation Alexander PokryshkinMarshal of the Soviet Union Vasily ChuikovMarshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr VasilevskyMarshal of the Soviet Union Ivan YakubovskyMarshal of the Soviet Union Ivan KonevMarshal of the Soviet Union Pyotr KoshevoyAdmiral Vladimir TributsMarshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Mikhailovich BudyonnyFormer Russian Interior Minister Viktor Fyodorovich YerinBallistics specialist Colonel Ivan Fedorovich LadygaLieutenant Colonel Polina Vladimirovna GelmanAdmiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Alexei Ivanovich SorokinForeign recipients[edit]General and later President Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland)General Stanislav Poplavsky (People's Republic of Poland)Politician and revolutionary Raúl Castro (Cuba)Politician and Minister of State Security Erich Mielke (East Germany)Politician and Party First Secretary Walter Ulbricht (East Germany)General and Minister of Defence Heinz Kessler (East Germany)Political activist, scholar and author Angela Davis (US) It is comes from Kharkiv, key city near Ukraine-Russia border now suffering from strong bombing attacks from russian invaders. 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