Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

• Name — Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" • Presenter — USSR • Type — Campaign medal • Eligibility — Citizens of the Soviet Union • Awarded For — Participation in the defence of Leningrad • Status — No longer awarded • Established — December 22, 1942 • Total Awarded — 1,470,000 • Higher — Medal "For the Salvation of the Drowning" • Lower — Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" • Caption2 — Ribbon of the Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" • Illustration — Reverse of the Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" • Illustration — Wartime Leningrad radio broadcaster Olga Bergholz, a recipient of the Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"

The individuals below were recipients of the Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". • Politician in charge of the defence of Leningrad Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov • Poet and wartime Leningrad radio broadcaster Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz • Seriously wounded at Leningrad painter Sergei Ivanovich Osipov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov • People's Artist of the USSR Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya • Marshal of the Soviet Union Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev • Rear Admiral Vladimir Konstantinovich Konovalov • People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin • Stage actor and director Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov • Admiral Vladimir Filippovich Tributs • Admiral Gordey Ivanovich Levchenko • Lieutenant General Alexey Alexandrovich Kuznetsov • Army General Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky • Admiral of the Fleet Hovhannes Stepani Isakov • Admiral Vladimir Vasilyevich Mikhailin • Ace tanker Lieutenant Colonel Zinoviy G. Kolobanov • Captain 1st grade Ivan Vasilyevich Travkin • Honoured Artist of Russian Federation Nikolai Efimovich Timkov • Leningrad native and veteran Piotr Konstantinovich Vasiliev • Veteran artilleryman Rostislav Ivanovich Vovkushevsky • Veteran artilleryman People's Artist of the Russian Federation Ivan Mikhailovich Varichev • Champion figure skater Maya Petrovna Belenkaya • Marshal of the Soviet Union Petr Kirillovich Koshevoi • Lieutenant General Nikolai Pavlovich Simoniak • Scientist and engineer Mikhail Borisovich Golant • Painter Nikolai Nikolaevich Brandt • Physicist Yuri Andreevich Yappa

The following is established of the heading itself. It is also recorded that medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" is associated with Soviet Union. The same evidence establishes that medal "For the Defence of Leningrad" is recorded from 1942.