Belarus to produce 110,000 medals to 65th anniversary of Great Victory
MINSK, 27 January (BelTA) – Nearly 110,000 jubilee medals, On the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, will be made in Belarus, head of the press service of the Defense Ministry of Belarus Vyacheslav Remenchik said at a roundtable in Minsk on 27 January.
The medal was instituted following the CIS Heads of State Council resolution in Bishkek in October 2008. The jubilee medals will be awarded to Great Patriotic War veterans, former prisoners of concentration camps and other persons who have made a considerable contribution to the heroic and patriotic upbringing of Belarus citizens, to immortalization of the fallen, to organizing jubilee events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Victory.
The medal has been designed in the St Petersburg Mint. The Vitebsk Instrument Making Plant has won the tender for medal production.
