Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
The medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ( Russian Юбилейная медаль "60 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР" ) was an award of the Soviet Union , which was donated on January 28, 1978 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet armed forces in one stage.
The gold medal from brass with a diameter of 32 mm shows on its obverse the symbolism of the Red Army with their part forces in the form of an army members of a submarine, two aircraft and three missiles. To the right of this are the years 1918–1978 . The reverse of the medal shows within the inscription: шестьдесят лет (Sixty Years) Вооруженные силы СССР (Armed Forces of the USSR) a Soviet star with a hammer and plow and two crossed symbols in the form of a rifle with a bayonet and a sword. The medal was worn on the left side of the chest of the recipient on a pentagonal red clasp, in the middle of which a gray vertical central stripe is woven. In this, in turn, a central yellow stripe is embedded. The interim clasp is of the same quality. 10,723,340 medals were awarded.
literature
- Dietrich Herfurth: Military Awards of the USSR. Recordings by Jean Molitor. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-327-00294-0 .
