Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 visually-hidden flanked by an illegible district

flanked by an illegible district stamp

measuring 13 mm (w) x 17 mm (h) with a 50 mm-long needle

89 mm (w) x 48

consisting of two reinforced black leather bases topped by rounded

Merit Medal Case: hardshelled

Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 visually-hidden flanked by an illegible district( ). Instituted February 2nd, 1943. A circular brass medal, the obverse depicting the leftward facing busts of Lenin and Stalin, circumscribed To a Partisan of the Patriotic War in Russian script with a five pointed star and the inscription USSR at the base, the reverse bears the Hammer and Sickle over the inscription For our Soviet Motherland in Russian script, suspended from a pentagonal mounted ribbon with an aluminum core and horizontal pinback,