Medal "For The Defence Of Kiev".

[travel-north]

Hey Mark,
we all know that there is only one type of Kiev medals, but I read that there are different variations. Do you have any info about that?

[Lapa]

Travel-North,

There is one, official type for the Kiev medal. However, some time after the fall of the Soviet Union, some Kiev medals appeared with a different reverse, namely, that of the Capture of Vienna medal.

It is thought that these were specifically minted for the collector market at the Mint, probably sometime about 1993.

Marc

[travel-north]

Mark,
I read on a Russian forum that there is the main variation, the Kievs made in 1960s, and then the late voenkomat variation, which was made in the 1980s. They look very similar, only the ring and some micro differences.

[desantnik]

Here's the lowest serial-numbered doc I've encountered - 000346.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Three Defense of Kiev Medal documents; Aleksandr Vladimirovich Golovashov, February 19th, 1970, 013693; Dimitri Nikoforovich Razhev, July 9th, 1962, 132803; & Vera Maksimovna Vasilyeva, June 12th, 1962, 303851. I need your assistance please with the signatures and awarding organizations.
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[CtahhR]

#1 Awarded by Har'kov City (Kharkov) Regional Military Commissariat.
#2 Kubyshev Regional Military Commissariat Lieutenant Colonel D'jachenko
#3 Belogorsk Regional Military Commissariat Lieutenant Colonel Zaporzhets

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal for the Defense of Kiev issued to Aleksei F. Potapenko, April 10th, 1962, Serial #A003447.

Document for the Medal for the Defense of Kiev issued to Nikolai Ivanovich Kashia on July 1st, 1962 and signed by Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union (#7973) Georgiy M o i s e e vich Inasaridze of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Georgia SSR, Serial #136153.[/SIZE]

[CtahhR]

This one was awarded by the Lenin Region Military Commissariat of Kiev. A Lieutenant-Colonel Podpisnov has put his "podpis" on it.

[marsino]

My contribute.

[marsino]

...and document.