Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev"
	Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" (obverse)
	Awarded by Soviet Union
Type	Commemorative medal
Eligibility	Citizens of the Soviet Union
Awarded for	Wartime and peacetime service to the city of Kiev
Status	No longer awarded
Statistics
Established	May 10, 1982
First awarded	May 26, 1982
Total awarded	780,180
	; Ribbon of the Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev"

Last updated April 23, 2019

The Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" (Russian : Медаль «В память 1500-летия Киева») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 10, 1982^[1] to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the Hero City of Kiev.

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Medal Statute

The Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" was awarded to workers, to specialists of the national economy, to workers of science and culture, of government agencies and community organizations, to military personnel, to retirees and other individuals who contributed to the economic, social and cultural development of the city, if residents of Kiev or its suburbs for at least 10 years; to participants in the defence of Kiev during the Great Patriotic War, to veterans awarded the medal "For Defence of Kiev", to partisans and fighters of the underground who fought in Kiev and its vicinity, for participation in the liberation of the city as part of the Soviet Armed Forces, regardless of where they might now live.^[1]

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The Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" was awarded by the Executive Committee of the Kiev City Council on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.^[1]

The medal was worn on the left side of the chest and in the presence of other medals of the Soviet Union, was located immediately after the Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad".^[1] If worn in the presence of medals and Orders of the Russian Federation, the latter have precedence.^[2]

The Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 16, 1957 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city of Leningrad. It was awarded to prominent members of Soviet society including veterans of the Great Patriotic War and serving members of the armed forces for wartime and peacetime services to the Hero-City of Leningrad.

Medal Description

The Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" was a 32mm in diameter circular brass medal. The obverse bears the relief image of deployed banners and divergent beams as a background to the Kiev monument in honour of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Along the upper circumference of the medal, the inscription: "In Commemoration of the 1500 Anniversary of Kiev" (Russian : «В память 1500-летия Киева»). On the reverse, in the upper part is an image of a "Gold Star" of Hero of the Soviet Union, just below it the inscription in two lines "GLORY TO THE HERO-CITY!" (Russian : «ГОРОДУ-ГЕРОЮ СЛАВА!»). In the lower part, the image of the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, to its right, the image of the Sophia Museum, a cultural monument of the eleventh century.^[1]

The title Hero of the Soviet Union was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

The medal is secured to a standard Russian pentagonal mount by a ring through the medal suspension loop. The mount is covered by a 24mm wide green silk moiré ribbon with a red 2mm left edge stripe, a blue 2mm right edge stripe and a central 8mm red stripe flanked by two 0,5mm wide gold edge stripes on each side spaced 1mm apart.^[1]

Recipients (partial list)

The individuals listed below were recipients of the Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev".

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 10, 1982" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1982-05-10. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
↑ "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 2010 No 1099" (in Russian). Russian Gazette. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2012-02-28.

v t e Orders, decorations, and medals of the Soviet Union
Highest grade of distinction	Hero of the Soviet Union Hero of Socialist Labour Mother Heroine
Honorary titles	Honoured Military Pilot of the USSR Honoured Military Navigator of the USSR Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR Honoured Test Pilot of the USSR Honoured Test Navigator of the USSR Honoured Pilot of the USSR Honoured Navigator of the USSR Honoured Inventor of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR People's Doctor of the USSR People's Architect of the USSR People's Teacher of the USSR
Civil and military orders	Order of Victory Order of Lenin Order of the October Revolution Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Order of Ushakov Order of Kutuzov Order of Nakhimov Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War Order of Alexander Nevsky Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Order of Glory Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of Friendship of Peoples Order of the Badge of Honour Order of Maternal Glory Order of Labour Glory Order of Honour Order "For Personal Courage"
Military medals	Medal "For Courage" Medal "For Battle Merit" Medal of Ushakov Medal of Nakhimov Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR" Medal "For Distinction in the Protection of Public Order" Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 1st class Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" 2nd class Medal "For Strengthening Military Cooperation" Medal "For Impeccable Service" Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Second World War medals	Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" Medal "For the Defence of Odessa" Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol" Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" Medal "For the Defence of the Soviet Transarctic" Medal "For the Defence of Kiev" Medal "For the Capture of Berlin" Medal "For the Capture of Budapest" Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg" Medal "For the Capture of Vienna" Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw" Medal "For the Liberation of Belgrade" Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "For the Victory over Japan" Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 2nd class Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Civil medals	Medal "For Labour Valour" Medal "For Distinguished Labour" Medal "For the Salvation of the Drowning" Medal "For Courage in a Fire" Medal "Veteran of Labour" Medal "For the Restoration of the Donbass Coal Mines" Medal "For the Restoration of the Black Metallurgy Enterprises of the South" Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands" Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR" Medal "For the Tapping of the Subsoil and Expansion of the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia"
Jubilee medals	Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow" Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev" Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Soviet Militia" Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
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