Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 certificate_of_authenticity Constructed of bronze magnetic metal

Constructed of bronze magnetic metal

and topped by two bands of silver aluminum wire piping interspersed with blue threaded chevrons

Accompanied with copies of his promotion to Lieutenant (1939) and recipient of the ALSGCM (1948) from the London Gazette

marked "ZAGREB" beside the Braća Knaus maker mark on the reverse

Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal to Partisans of the Patriotic War, II. Class, c. 1945 certificate_of_authenticity Constructed of bronze magnetic metal( ). 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,