Anniversary medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

Medal awarded to:

• military personnel and civilian employees who took part in the military operations on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, partisans and members of underground organizations operating during the Great Patriotic War in the temporarily occupied territories of the USSR, military personnel and civilian personnel who served during the Great Patriotic War World War II in the Armed Forces of the USSR, persons awarded medals "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" , "For Victory over Japan" , as well as persons holding a certificate for the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" or a certificate of participation in the war;
• home front workers who were awarded orders of the USSR for selfless labor during the Great Patriotic War, medals "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" , "For Labor Valor" , "For Labor Distinction" , "For the Defense of Leningrad" , " For the defense of Moscow " , " For the defense of Odessa " , " For the defense of Sevastopol " , " For the defense of Stalingrad " , " For the defense of Kiev " , " For the defense of the Caucasus " , " For the defense of the Soviet Arctic " , as well as persons bearing the sign " Resident blockade of Leningrad " or certificate for the medal" For Valiant Labor in the Great Fatherland the natural war of 1941-1945 ”;
• persons who have worked for at least six months from June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945 , excluding the period of work in the territories temporarily occupied by the enemy;
• former juvenile prisoners of concentration camps , ghettos and other places of forced detention created by the Nazis and their allies during the Second World War.

The jubilee medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” is round, 32 mm in diameter, made of tompak . On the front side of the coin is an image of the Kremlin wall with the Spasskaya Tower , the Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat and a festive salute . At the bottom of the medal is an image of the Order of the Patriotic War and the numbers "1945-1995", laurel branches around the circle. On the reverse side of the coin in the center is the inscription "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Below the circumference of the laurel half-wreath. The edges of the medal are bordered by a side. All inscriptions and images on the medal are convex.

The medal with the help of an eye and a ring is connected to a pentagonal block covered with a red silk moire ribbon 24 mm wide. There are five bands on the left edge of the tape: three black and two orange. The width of the strips is 2 mm. The extreme black stripes are bordered by orange stripes 1 mm wide.

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  Reverse of the medal

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• Law of the Russian Federation of July 7, 1993 No. 5336-I “On the Establishment of the Jubilee Medal“ 50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. ”" // Russian newspaper. - August 10, 1993.
• Anniversary medal “50th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (unopened) (inaccessible link) . State awards of the Republic of Belarus. Date of treatment December 12, 2009. Archived January 3, 2011.
• Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 339/95. About the awarding of the jubilee medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (Ukrainian)
• Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 266/95. About the order of handing over the jubilee medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” (Ukrainian)
• The decision on the Regulation on the jubilee medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, its description and the procedure for financing the costs of its manufacture (adopted at a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS on December 24, 1993 in Ashgabat).

Awards of Ukraine

• Izotova M.A., Tsareva T. B. Orders and medals of Russia and the USSR. - Rostov-on-Don: LLC Publishing House Valdis, 2010. - S. 631-634. - 736 p. - ISBN 978-5-9567-0960-3 .