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[[File:50 ann WW2 reverse.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Reverse of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]]
The '''Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"''' ({{lang-ru|Юбилейная медаль «50 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.»}}) is a state commemorative medal of the [[Russian Federation]] created to denote the 50th anniversary of the 1945 victory over [[Nazi Germany]].  It was established on July 7, 1993 by the Law of the Russian Federation № 5336-1.<ref name="law">{{cite web | authorlink = Russian Government | title = Law of the Russian Federation № 5336-1of July 7, 1993 | publisher = Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on state awards | date = 1999-12-15 | url = http://award.adm.gov.ru/doc/z5336.htm  | language = Russian | accessdate =2012-02-18}}</ref>  It was also established in Ukraine, in Kazakhstan by Decision of the Supreme Council of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]] № 2485-XII of October 26, 1993, and in the [[Republic of Belarus]] on the basis of [[Presidential Decree]] № 102 of March 14, 1995.

== Medal statute ==
The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" is awarded to veterans of the Armed Forces of the [[USSR]] who participated in the fighting in the [[Great Patriotic War]], [[guerrillas]], the [[Resistance during World War II|Underground]], those awarded the [[Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"]] or [[Medal "For the Victory over Japan"|"For the Victory over Japan"]],  persons awarded for their selfless work the medal [[Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"]] or "Citizen of the siege of Leningrad" or any of the "Defence" medals of the cities or regions of the [[USSR]]; to persons who worked in the period from 22 June 1941 to May 9, 1945 for no less than six months, excluding the period of work in the temporarily [[German-occupied Europe|occupied territories]]; former under-age prisoners of concentration camps, ghettos and other places of detention established by the Nazis and their allies; foreign nationals from outside the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] who fought in the national military forces in the USSR, as part of guerilla units, underground groups, and other anti-fascist groups who have made significant contribution to victory in the Great Patriotic War and who were awarded state awards of the USSR or Russian Federation.<ref name="statute">{{cite web | authorlink = Russian Government | title = Statute of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | publisher = Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on state awards | date = 1999-12-15 | url = http://award.adm.gov.ru/medal/medal_14.htm | language = Russian | accessdate =2012-02-18}}</ref>

Presidential Decree 1099 of September 7, 2010<ref name="decree1099">{{cite web  | authorlink = Russian Government | title = Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 7, 2010 No 1099 | publisher = Russian Gazette | date = 2010-09-07 | url = http://www.rg.ru/2010/09/15/nagrady-dok.html | language = Russian | accessdate =2012-02-18}}</ref> removed the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" from the list of state awards of the Russian Federation. It is no longer awarded.

== Medal description ==
The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" is a 32mm in diameter [[tombac]] circular medal. Its obverse bears the relief image of the [[Kremlin wall]] with the [[Spasskaya Tower]] and [[Saint Basil's Cathedral]], all under fireworks.  At the bottom, a relief image of the [[Order of the Patriotic War]] over a laurel wreath, the dates "1945" on the left, and "1995" on the right of the image of the Order.  On the otherwise plain reverse, the relief inscription in six lines "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" {{lang-ru| "50 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945"}}).  AT center below the inscription, the dates "1941 – 1945".  A laurel wreath surrounds the reverse inscriptions from the bottom to just over halfway up along the medal circumference.

The medal is suspended by a ring through the award's suspension loop to a standard Russian pentagonal mount covered with an overlapping 24mm wide silk [[moiré]] ribbon, the right half is red, the left half is the [[Ribbon of Saint George]].

== Recipients (partial list) ==
The individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

===Russian Federation===
* [[Anna Yegorova|World War 2 combat pilot Hero of the Soviet Union senior lieutenant Anna Yegorova]]
* [[Anatoly Kornukov|Army General Anatoly Kornukov]]
* [[Ivan Ladyga|World War 2 artillery officer Colonel Ivan Fedorovich Ladyga]]
* [[Vasil Bykaŭ|World War 2 infantry officer and author Vasil Bykaŭ]]
* [[Yuri Lyubimov|Veteran of Stalingrad, stage actor and director Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov]]
* [[Tikhon Khrennikov|World War 2 veteran, pianist and composer Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov]]
* [[Vasily Ivanovich Petrov|Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Petrov]]
* [[Lyudmila Zykina|Folk singer Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina]]
* [[Vladimir Dolgikh|Politician Vladimir Ivanovich Dolgikh]]

===Foreign nationals===
* [[Wojciech Jaruzelski|Polish General and President Wojciech Jaruzelski]]
* [[Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor)|British Royal Navy Chief Petty Officer William Frederick "Bill" Stone]]

== See also ==
{{Portal|Soviet Union|Russia|Ukraine|Armenia|Belarus|Kazakhstan}}
*[[Awards and decorations of the Russian Federation]]
*[[Awards and decorations of the Soviet Union]]
*[[Eastern Front (World War II)]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://award.gov.ru/ The Commission on State Awards to the President of the Russian Federation]
* [http://www.rg.ru/ The Russian Gazette]  In Russian

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