Description
Medal for the Defense of LeningradÂ
Short Horizon variation
Comes with its rare and early booklet to Lt. Leonid Dmitrievich Popenko (Леонид Дмитриевич Попенко)
The medal is made of brass. It measures 32.16 mm in diameter, 37.77 mm in height including its eyelet and weighs 17.4 grams without its suspension. This early variation features a relatively short horizon.
In excellent condition with an appealing patina and light overall wear. Both sides show several small dings and scratches but its details are still perfectly crisp. Its suspension and ribbon are time period to the medal its connection ring has been cut.
Its document is housed in an original and rarely seen booklet featuring a embossed image of the medal above the text “For the Defense of Leningrad”. It is in excellent condition with its folded document securely in place. It is dated 27 July 1943, numbered П 23048 and shows the official city stamp of Leningrad, used by the City Executive Committee (the local Soviet authority). The date and name matches the decree we found on Pamyat perfectly well.
The first page shows a little poem and reads:
“FOR THE DEFENSE OF LENINGRAD”
Your distant grandson will take the Heroic Medal with reverence
From generation to generation,
she will pass to posterity.
In it, everything that you lived is relentless,
You yourself are in the metal of it,
You yourself are depicted on it.
And the line of fighters and the brilliance of the bayonet,
the Admiralty community.
“For the defense of Leningrad” –
Such an inscription for the ages!
You were the first to take this fight,
You will not be the last to win.
Splinters whistle over the Neva,
More bursts with summer thunder,
Still our day in labor, in struggle
Burns with fire and blood pours.
What the homeland believes in you.
For the unchanging path of the
fighter your high reward.
And you, the defender of Leningrad, –
You will be faithful to the end.
Boris Likharev
Scarce with this award booklet
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