Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

The Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (Russian: Юбилейная медаль «Двадцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.») was a state commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on May 7, 1965 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR[1] to denote the twentieth anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.

On its obverse, the relief image of the caped Soviet soldier-liberator, holding a child in his left arm and a mighty sword cutting through a swastika in the other, standing over two oak branches.

On the reverse, along the circumference of the medal, the relief inscription "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945" (Russian: "Двадцать лет победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг.").

In center, a relief five pointed star overlapping the Roman numeral "XX" over a background of diverging rays.

[1] The individuals below were all recipients of the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

Reverse of the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Author Vasil Bykaŭ , a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"