Medal "For The Defence Of Leningrad".

[KDVR]

opinion needed

32 mm diameter, 16.75 g

Thank you

[rocketscientist]

I like the crispy details of the Leningrad medal

[CtahhR]

Here is a tidy example of the Long Horizon.

[CtahhR]

With a very clean and "fresh" document №АК63633 awarded to Ol'ga Vladimirovna Gnusina by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies Of Workers on 15th May 1944.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Defense of Leningrad Medal document awarded to Guards Junior Lieutenant Valeriy Ivanovich Rukhtinov dated August 23rd, 1944, by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies Of Workers, Serial #AD76428.

Document for the Medal Defense of Leningrad issued to Guards Senior Sergeant Alexander Akimovich Suponya dated February 1st, 1944 by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies of Workers, Serial #AB17249.
(Note: clerical error on the obverse, corrected on the reverse with the stamp of the 50th Separate Heavy Tank Regiment and dated February 5th, 1944.)

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[desantnik]

Please reference attached photos - s/n N 16268. As discussed elsewhere, this numbering was not done at the mint and believed to have been punched at the unit level - the number corresponding with the serial number of the certificate awarding the medal.

[CtahhR]

Thinking about this a little - maybe it would have been easier if all the awards were uniquely numbered (or at least identified) by the same level of folks who were dishing them out. This of course leaves less work at the mints and more administration for military units. (Military units do love their administrative work though!)

[Shocktrooper]

And another curiosity:

This medal definately has much to tell... :idea

[CtahhR]

That poor thing looks more like a biscuit these days....

A hob-nob in with the milk bottle tops.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal Defense of Leningrad issued to Monya Leonidovich Khanyuris dated May 25th, 1944, by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies of Workers, Serial #AB62754.

Document for the Medal Defense of Leningrad issued to Anatoliy Semenovich Dudnik dated August 18th, 1943, by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies of Workers, Serial #Ts00862.

Document for the Medal Defense of Leningrad issued to Ivan Vladimirovich Preobrazhenskiy dated June 3rd, 1943, by the Executive Committee Leningrad City Deputies of Workers, Serial #A13303.[/SIZE]