Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"

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Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"
Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (obverse)
TypeCivilian medal
Awarded forThree years of dedicated work in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway
Presented by Soviet Union
EligibilitySoviet citizens
StatusNo longer awarded
EstablishedOctober 8, 1976
Total170,030
Ribbon of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"
Reverse of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"
Republic of Sakha, Mikhail Nikolayev
, a recipient of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway"

The Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (

Baikal-Amur Railway, a huge multi year project under the leadership of then Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev. The medal's statute was amended on July 18, 1980, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 2523-X.[2]

Medal statute

The Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" was awarded to active participants in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway, on the rail section

Taishet – Lena, in the production facilities, in the building of housing for the civilian workers, for good work in construction, for high-quality designs and survey work, for honest work at enterprises, institutions and organizations directly supporting the construction efforts and the workers. The medal was usually awarded to workers, engineering-technical workers and employees who worked on the project in its construction, design or for its maintenance for at least three years.[1]

Recommendations for award of the Medal "For construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" were made by the Party administration, trade union and

RSFSR in the communities of the recipients.[1]

The Medal "For construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" was worn on the left side of the chest and in the presence of other medals of the USSR, immediately after the Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands".[2] If worn in the presence of awards of the Russian Federation, the latter have precedence.[3]

Each medal came with an attestation of award, this attestation came in the form of a small 8 cm by 11 cm cardboard booklet bearing the award's name, the recipient's particulars and an official stamp and signature on the inside. Following the death of the recipient, the medal and attestation of award certificate remained with the family as a memento.[1]

Medal description

The Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" was a 32 mm in diameter brass circular medal with a raised rim. On its obverse, in the background in the left half of the medal, the relief image of hills and a train going left across a bridge over a river, under the bridge, the relief inscription on five lines "For the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Rusyn: «За строительство Байкало-Амурской магистрали»), in the right half of the medal, the left profiles of a man and a woman, the man wearing a construction helmet, the woman being closer and slightly to the right. On the reverse, the Sun over railroad tracks intersected by a ribbon bearing the inscription "BAM" (Russian: «БАМ») framed by a laurel wreath with the hammer and sickle at the top.[1]

The medal was secured to a standard Soviet pentagonal mount by a ring through the medal suspension loop. The mount was covered by a 24 mm wide overlapping silk

moiré ribbon with 1 mm wide light green edge stripes, three 3 mm wide central yellow stripes separated by two 0,5 mm grey stripes, bordered by two 6 mm wide dark green stripes.[1]

Recipients (partial list)

The individuals below were recipients of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway".[4][5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 8, 1976" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1976-10-08. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  2. ^ a b "Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 18, 1980 № 2523-X" (in Russian). Legal Library of the USSR. 1980-07-18. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  3. ^ "Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 2010 No 1099" (in Russian). Russian Gazette. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
  4. ^ "List of recipients of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" compiled from ru.Wikipedia". Russian Wikipedia. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. ^ "List of recipients of the Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" compiled from en.Wikipedia". English Wikipedia. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)

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