Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (obverse)
Awarded by  Russian Federation  Ukraine  Armenia  Belarus  Kazakhstan
Type	State Commemorative Medal
Eligibility	Citizens of the Russian Federation and foreign nationals
Awarded for	World War 2 service
Status	No longer awarded
Statistics
Established	July 7, 1993
Ribbon 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" (Russian: 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. 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.

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 Underground, those awarded the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" or "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 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.