KGB, Border Guard and Police Medals
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Document for a Medal for Irreproachable Service in Fire
Department, 3rd cl., October 1990 issue to a Firefighter
Sergeant Major. A very uncommon late type white booklet with
USSR state emblem on the cover. This is one of the last such
documents issued before the collapse of the USSR in the
following year.
Centennial of Birth of Nikolai Krylenko, Table Medal in Bronze by the Leningrad
Mint, 1989. Commemorates a Bolshevik leader who was the Soviet Chief Prosecutor
and Minister of Justice before being purged in 1938. Features the Soviet law
enforcement emblem of shield and sword. In very fine to excellent condition.
50th Anniversary of the Belomor Canal, table medal in bronze, 1985. Built by
prisoners of GULAG labor camps, this strategic waterway connected the White Sea
and Baltic Sea. Upon completion in 1933, the canal was celebrated as one of the
greatest achievements of Soviet industrial program, even though it cost thousands
of lives of slave laborers. The table medal commemorating the construction was
struck at the Leningrad Mint in 1985 (with a two years delay), and only 850 of
them were ever made. EXC condition.