Medal "For the Capture of Budapest"

The Medal " For the Capture of Budapest (Russian Медаль " За взятие Будапешта ") was a Soviet award during the Second World War during the Battle of Budapest, which led to the conquest of the city of Budapest by the Red Army. Your donation was made by Joseph Stalin in 1945. The ceremony took place to all those members of the Red Army, who participated between December 20, 1944, and February 15, 1945, the liberation of Budapest honorable. As of 1995, the medal was awarded to approximately 362,000 people.

Stylish look and manner

The bronze medal shows on its obverse below two crossed, upwardly curved, quarter-circular and open laurel branches, which are connected at their lower cross point by hammer and sickle. In center and inscription За взятие Будапешта is ( For the ingestion of Budapest ) to read about the a Soviet star is seen. The reverse shows the three-line inscription: 9 / Февраля / 1945, (9 February 1945), the date of the taking of Budapest. In a Soviet star is also shown. Was driven medal at the upper left side of the chest Beliehenen of an elongated pentagonal fabric-covered clasp, whose color is yellow. In this band a deep blue center stripe is perpendicular woven. The accompanying interim clasp is of the same nature.