In bronze, 65.2 mm wide. A very attractive artwork on both sides is in unusually deep 3-d profile. The obverse shows panorama of Sevastopol viewed from the sea with the prominently featured monument to the Russian warships deliberately sunk there during the Crimean War to block the harbor. Note also the Gold Star medal awarded to the city for the heroism of its defenders in WW2.

Shown in the center of the obverse are two awards for defending Sevastopol separated by nearly a century: the 1856 Russian imperial medal and the Soviet one for the 1941-42 campaign. The raised insc

In bronze, 65.2 mm wide. A very attractive artwork on both sides is in unusually deep 3-d profile. The obverse shows panorama of Sevastopol viewed from the sea with the prominently featured monument to the Russian warships deliberately sunk there during the Crimean War to block the harbor. Note also the Gold Star medal awarded to the city for the heroism of its defenders in WW2.

Shown in the center of the obverse are two awards for defending Sevastopol separated by nearly a century: the 1856 Russian imperial medal and the Soviet one for the 1941-42 campaign. The raised inscription along the reverse reads "200 Years from the Day of the Founding. An Example for the Descendants."

The medal was created by A.A. Korolyuk and struck at the Leningrad Mint. There were two versions of it with identical artwork, one in aluminum and another in brass. Both had a rather limited circulation of 1500.

/See Commemorative [Table] Medal of the Soviet Period, 1919 - 1991, fig. 1449/.

Please note, penny in our photo is for size reference.
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