09-19-2003, 09:39 PM (This post was last modified: 06-06-2012, 08:26 PM by CtahhR.)
This medal came in a large "collection" of medals and badges (read: grocery bag of stuff) that I got as gift from a friend in Murmansk.
I find it a bit interesting - as you can see from the photos, it has some kind of bird in the front. A swan? Reminds me of something that has to do with the environment.
On the back it has a star, not a soviet star, but something that looks more like a thin NATO-star and then the names of some of the republics and some other regions, but not the SSR names but rather the names as we know the states now - Rossija, Ukraina, Azerbadjan etc.
Ideas of what this is?
/Patrick
Height is 5 centimetres, the suspension is pinback, color of band is ugly violet. Thickness 3 mm.
Why there are not the names of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and the other central asian"stan´s" in it?
Is there a reason or simply because there was no space left?
There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight The Who, Won't get fooled again
Couldn't it be a medal / badge commemorating Chernobyl or the association of 8 republics / regions on environmental matters ?
For example, the new city of Slavutych, after the shutdown of Chernobyl, was built some 50 kilometers east of Chernobyl, with financial aid from eight Soviet republics. Maybe this medal is celebrating such an event ?
Just one thought...
Could it be some kind of non-Soviet cultural/enviromental/freedom-thing?
With all those nation names spelled in non-Soviet form maybe this medal commemorates some meeting for non-communist citizens (cultural people etc) from of these nationalities?
