Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (obverse)
Type	State Commemorative Medal
Awarded for	World War 2 service^[1]
Presented by	Russian Federation Ukraine Armenia Belarus Kazakhstan Azerbaijan
Eligibility	Citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign nationals^[1]
Status	No longer awarded^[2]
Established	July 7, 1993^[3]

Ribbon of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль «50 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.») is a state commemorative medal of the Russian Federation created to denote the 50th anniversary of the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany. It was established on July 7, 1993, by the Law of the Russian Federation No. 5336-1.^[3] It was also established in Ukraine, in Kazakhstan by Decision of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 2485-XII of October 26, 1993, and in the Republic of Belarus on the basis of Presidential Decree No. 102 of March 14, 1995.

Medal statute

The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" is awarded to veterans of the Armed Forces of the USSR who participated in the fighting in the Great Patriotic War, guerrillas, the Underground, those awarded the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" or "For the Victory over Japan", persons awarded for their selfless work the medal Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" or "Citizen of the siege of Leningrad" or any of the "Defence" medals of the cities or regions of the USSR; to persons who worked in the period from 22 June 1941 to May 9, 1945, for no less than six months, excluding the period of work in the temporarily occupied territories; former under-age prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos and other places of detention established by the Nazis and their allies; foreign nationals from outside the Commonwealth of Independent States who fought in the national military forces in the USSR, as part of guerilla units, underground groups, and other anti-fascist groups who have made significant contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War and who were awarded state awards of the USSR or Russian Federation.^[1]

Presidential Decree 1099 of September 7, 2010^[2] removed the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" from the list of state awards of the Russian Federation. It is no longer awarded.^{[citation needed]}

Medal description

The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" is a 32mm in diameter tombac circular medal. Its obverse bears the relief image of the Kremlin wall with the Spasskaya Tower and Saint Basil's Cathedral, all under fireworks. At the bottom, a relief image of the Order of the Patriotic War over a laurel wreath, the dates "1945" on the left, and "1995" on the right of the image of the Order. On the otherwise plain reverse, the relief inscription in six lines "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Russian: "50 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945"). AT center below the inscription, the dates "1941 – 1945". A laurel wreath surrounds the reverse inscriptions from the bottom to just over halfway up along the medal circumference.^{[citation needed]} The medal is suspended by a ring through the award's suspension loop to a standard Russian pentagonal mount covered with an overlapping 24mm wide silk moiré ribbon, the right half is red, the left half is the Ribbon of Saint George.^{[citation needed]}

Recipients

The individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Russian Federation

Foreign nationals

Polish General and President Wojciech Jaruzelski
British Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer William Frederick "Bill" Stone
American Commanding Officer Robert Trimble, Poltava Airbase 1945
American paratrooper and a prisoner of war in ww2 Joseph Beyrle
Azerbaijani aviator and professor Mazahir Abasov

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Statute of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"" (in Russian). Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on state awards. 1999-12-15. Archived from the original on 2011-02-03. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
^ ^a ^b "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 2010 No 1099" (in Russian). Russian Gazette. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
^ ^a ^b "Law of the Russian Federation № 5336-1of July 7, 1993" (in Russian). Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on state awards. 1999-12-15. Archived from the original on January 3, 2011. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

External links

v t e Orders, decorations, and medals of Russia
Honorary titles	Hero of the Russian Federation Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation Honoured Military Pilot of the Russian Federation Honoured Military Navigator of the Russian Federation Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR
Orders	Order of St. Andrew Order of St. George "For Merit to the Fatherland" Order of St. Catherine Order of Alexander Nevsky Order of Suvorov Order of Ushakov Order of Zhukov Order of Kutuzov Order of Nakhimov Order of Courage Order "For Military Merit" Order "For Naval Merit" Order of Honour Order of Friendship Order of Parental Glory
Decorations	Cross of St. George Decoration "For Beneficence" Decoration For Impeccable Service
Medals	"For Merit to the Fatherland" "For Courage" Suvorov Ushakov Zhukov Nesterov Pushkin Defender of a Free Russia "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order" "For Distinction in the Protection of the State Borders" "For Life Saving" "For Work in Agriculture" "For the Development of Railways" "For Merit in the Development of Nuclear Industry" "For Merit in Space Exploration" Order of Parental Glory
Jubilee medals	50 Years of Victory 60 Years of Victory 65 Years of Victory 70 Years of Victory 75 Years of Victory 300 Years of the Russian Navy 850th Anniversary of Moscow 100 Years of the Trans-Siberian Railway 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg 1000th Anniversary of Kazan
Presidential certificates	Presidential Certificate of Honour Presidential Certificate of Gratitude
Officially defunct dynastic orders	Order of Saint Catherine Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky Order of the White Eagle Order of Saint Vladimir Order of Saint Anna Order of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Order of Saint Anastasia Order of Saint Stanislaus Order of Saint Michael the Archangel (Insignia of Saint Olga)
Russia portal

Medals of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Medals	Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal of Zhukov Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

This page was last edited on 16 July 2023, at 08:46