Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

The medal "70 years the USSR Armed Forces " (Russian Юбилейная медаль " 70 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР ") was an award of the Soviet Union, which was founded on January 24, 1988 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Soviet armed forces in one stage.

The 32 mm by measuring gold medal made ​​of brass shows its obverse three left -looking head portraits of all three branches of the armed forces of the Red Army in the order of the Army, Navy, Air Force. The symbolism is surrounded by a laurel wreath, which unites at its top center in a Soviet star. The lower intersection of laurel branches is overlaid by the annual figures 1918/1988. The reverse of the coin shows, however, the five-line inscription: 70 / лет / Bооруженные / Cид / СССР (70 years Armed Forces of the USSR). Below this inscription form two crossed branches of laurel and oak leaves completion. Was driven medal at the left chest of the Beliehenen to a pentagonal red barrette with green hem, in the middle of a vertical center stripe is woven in shades of yellow - gray - yellow. The Interim clasp is of the same nature. It 9.84216 million medals were awarded.