Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Jubilee Medal
"Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (obverse)
Awarded by  USSR
Type Jubilee medal
Eligibility Citizens of the Soviet Union
Awarded for Participation in World War 2
Status No longer awarded
Statistics
Established April 12, 1985
Total awarded 11,268,980

Ribbon of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Reverse of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Renowned engineer Sergey Afanasiev, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Polish General Michał Rola-Żymierski, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Vietnamese General Hoàng Văn Thái, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

The Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль «Сорок лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on April 12, 1985 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR[1] to denote the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

Medal Statute

The Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" was awarded to: all military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of the USSR who took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 – 1945, to partisans of the Great Patriotic War, to the personnel of the Armed Forces of the USSR, as well as any other persons who were awarded the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" or the Medal "For the Victory over Japan"; to home front workers, who were awarded for their dedicated work during the Great Patriotic War Orders of the USSR, the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", or other medals of the USSR such as "For the Defence of Leningrad", "For the Defence of Moscow", "For Defence of Odessa", "For the Defence of Sevastopol", "For the Defence of Stalingrad", "For the Defence of Kiev", "For the Defence of the Caucasus", "For the Defence of the Soviet Arctic".[1]

The medal was awarded on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR by commanders of military units, formations, the heads of agencies, institutions; by republican, territorial, regional, district or municipal military commissariats, the Supreme Council of the Union and autonomous republics, the executive committees of regional, provincial, county, district and municipal Soviets.[1]

The Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" was worn on the left side of the chest and in the presence of other orders and medals of the USSR, was located immediately following the Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".[1] If worn in the presence of orders and medals of the Russian Federation, the latter have precedence.[2]

Description

The Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" was a 32mm in diameter circular brass medal. On the obverse in the background, fireworks on both sides of the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower within the relief outline of a large five pointed star positioned slightly off center to the right; the star’s lower points superimposed over the relief image of laurel branches along the medal’s lower circumference going halfway up both sides; at lower center going up three quarters of the way, the relief image of a soldier holding a machine gun, his right arm in the air, to his right, a female worker and to his left, a collective farmer. In the upper part, on both sides of the tower superimposed over the star’s outline, the prominent relief dates “1945” and “1985”. On the reverse along the upper medal circumference the relief inscription "WAR PARTICIPANT" (Russian: «УЧАСТНИКУ ВОЙНЫ») or "PARTICIPANT ON THE LABOUR FRONT" (Russian: «УЧАСТНИКУ ТРУДОВОГО ФРОНТА»), in the center, the relief inscription on seven lines "40 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" (Russian: «40 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»). At the bottom, the relief image of the hammer and sickle over a Ribbon of St. George. On the medals struck to honour foreign nationals, the reverse inscriptions "WAR PARTICIPANT" or "PARTICIPANT ON THE LABOUR FRONT" were omitted.[1]

The medal was secured to a standard Soviet pentagonal mount by a ring through the medal suspension loop. The mount was covered by a 24mm wide red silk moiré ribbon with 2mm green edge stripes. On the left side, against the edge stripe, the 10mm wide Ribbon of St. George.[1]

Recipients (partial list)

The individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Soviets

Foreign recipients

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR №2205-XI of April 12, 1985" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1985-04-12. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  2. ↑ "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 2010 No 1099" (in Russian). Russian Gazette. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  3. ↑ "Makuka Nkoloso the Afronaut", CCCTV News, 16 Oct 2013 (video)

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