Russia - Soviet: Medal for the Development of Virgin Lands with accompanying award document to the recipient numbered ‘166851’
Condition: Good Very Fine.
The Medal For the Development of Virgin Lands was established on October 26, 1956, and awarded to farmers, workers of state farms, MTS, construction and other organisations, the Party, government, labour and Komsomol workers for their good work in the development of virgin and fallow lands in Kazakhstan, Siberia, the Ural, the Volga and the North Caucasus for a period of usually at least two years. This Medal was also awarded to Yuri Gagarin right after his space flight. It became a tradition to award the Medal to many Soviet cosmonauts after that.
