Description
Medal for the Development of Virgin Lands
Variation 1 awarded to Vasily Vasilievich Pavlov (Василий Васильевич Павлов)
Made of gold plated brass. The medal measures 32.10 mm in diameter, 37.07 in height and it weighs 14.8 grams, not including its suspension.
The medal is in excellent, close to mint condition with all details crisp and almost all of the gold plating present. It comes with a double layer steel suspension and time period ribbon.
Its accompanying document is in nice condition with all pages firmly attached. It is numbered A090044 and is dated 7 August 1957.
Awarded to all Soviet workers who helped cultivate 36,000,000 hectares of previously uncultivated lands in Kazakhstan; Siberia; the Urals; the Volga area and the northern Caucasus for two solid years from 1954–56.
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