The Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War"[2] (Russian: Медаль «Партизану Отечественной войны», Medal "Partizanu Otechestvennoi voiny") was a World War II Soviet paramilitary award established in two classes on February 2, 1943, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

[1] to recognise the fortitude and courage of the partisans on the home front in their struggle to free the Soviet Motherland of the Nazi invaders far behind enemy lines.

The Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" was bestowed on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Their identical obverses bore the left bust profiles of Lenin and Stalin, the latter being the closer and slightly to the right.

On their also identical reverses, the relief inscription in three lines "For our Soviet Motherland" (Russian: «За нашу Советскую Родину», Za nashu Sovetskuyo Rodinu), above the inscription, the relief image of the hammer and sickle.