Soviet Table Medals
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Award Table Medal in bronze to a Winner of the 1985 Contest of Student Science
Papers on Social Studies, History of the VLKSM, and History of the International
Youth Movement. Rather than being a purely commemorative medal, this unusual piece
was bestowed exclusively upon the laureates of the contest and only on one
occasion. Just 300 were ever produced. In excellent condition.

50th Anniversary of the Belomor Canal, table medal in bronze, 1985 issue. Built
by the prisoners of GULAG labor camps, this strategic waterway connected the White
Sea and Baltic Sea. After the construction was completed in 1933, it 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. The medal is in excellent condition.

200th Anniversary of Sevastopol, Table Medal in Bronze, 1983. This attractive and
unusual 65-mm medal features two awards for defending Sevastopol: the 1856 Russian
imperial medal for actions during the Crimean War and the Soviet one for the 1941-
42 campaign. A relatively uncommon piece in excellent condition.