Medal “60 years of the USSR Armed Forces”

Description

The obverse of the medal features an image of a Soviet Army soldier with a submachine gun against a background of sky-high missiles and flying combat aircraft. To the right of the soldier’s figure, a submarine is depicted on the sea horizon, above which the dates “1918” and “1978” are arranged in two lines. On the reverse side of the medal, the inscriptions are placed around the circumference: “Sixty years” and “Armed Forces of the USSR”, separated by asterisks. In the center is an image of a five-pointed star with a hammer and a plow in the middle, superimposed on a crossed rifle and a saber. The edges of the medal are bordered by a rim. All inscriptions and images on the medal are convex. The medal is connected by means of an eyelet and a ring to a pentagonal shoe covered with a 24 mm wide gray silk moire ribbon. The edges of the ribbon are edged with a 5 mm wide red stripe. In the middle of the ribbon is a longitudinal strip of golden color with a width of 1 mm.
Dimensions: diameter – 3 cm, height with pad - 8.5 cm.