Medal to The Besieiged Residents of Leningrad

[Woolgar]

This decoration was conferred upon those people who lived in Leningrad during the siege of 1941-1944 for four months or more.
The medal was stamped at the mint with a design by artist SA Kornilov on a round brass base 27mm in diameter. The medals obverse shows the image of a broken ring against the background of the Main Admiralty, a tongue of fire, a laurel bough and a legend which reads '900 days, 900 nights'
The medals reverse has an image of the hammer and sickle and the legend' To the Residents of Besieged Leningrad'
From 30th April 1990, the recipients of the badge are considered equal to those who fought in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45

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