Defence of Soviet Artic Medal

Date: 5th December 1944
Campaign: World War II
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Medal Composite: Brass
Number Issued: 350,000

Established by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 5th December 1944. It was awarded for no less than 6 months service between 22nd June 1941 and November 1944, or for participating in operations between 20 September to 1st November 1994 in the northern areas around the Kola Peninsula, near Murmansk in the Barents Sea.
The Obverse of the medal depicts a soldier in full winter clothing, complete with the muzzle of a PPSH sub machine-gun. There are two tanks in the foreground, a ship and two aircraft (possibily I-16's?) in the background. The Russian for "For the Defence of the Soviet Polar Region" runs around the edge. The reverse, as per all the defence medal states "For our Soviet Motherland".