USSR-MEDAL FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 1500th ANNIVERSARY OF KIEV

. 1982 . The Medal 'In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kiev' was awarded to workers, to specialists of the national economy, to workers of science and culture, of government agencies and community organizations, to military personnel, to retirees and other individuals who contributed to the economic, social and cultural development of the city, if residents of Kiev or its suburbs for at least 10 years; to participants in the defence of Kiev during the Great Patriotic War (the name for World War II in 1941–45 in Russia), to veterans awarded the medal 'For Defence of Kiev', to partisans and fighters of the underground who fought in Kiev and its vicinity, for participation in the liberation of the city as part of the Soviet Armed Forces, regardless of where they might now live