Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

• Name — Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" • Presenter — USSR • Type — Campaign medal • Eligibility — Citizens of the Soviet Union • Awarded For — Participation in the defence of Stalingrad • Status — No longer awarded • Established — December 22, 1942 • Total Awarded — 759,560 • Higher — Medal "For the Defence of Sevastopol" • Lower — Medal "For the Defence of Kiev" • Caption2 — Ribbon of the Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" • Illustration — Reverse of the Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

The Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad" was established on December 22, 1942 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The medal's statute was amended on July 18, 1980 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR № 2523-X.

The individuals below were all recipients of the Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad". • Battle of Stalingrad sniper Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev • Hero of the Soviet Union earned at Stalingrad Colonel General Aleksandr Ilich Rodimtsev • Order of Suvorov earned at Stalingrad, Lieutenant General Vasily Mikhaylovich Badanov • Sapper Vladimir Fedorovich Chekalov • Master of tank combat, Guards unit lieutenant colonel Galiy Adilbekovich Adilbekov • Combat pilot Captain Mariya Ivanivna Dolina • Marshal of Aviation Fedor Yakovlevich Falaleyev • Designer of artillery and rocket systems, Hero of Socialist Labour, Georgy Ivanovich Sergeev • Marshal of Artillery Vasily Ivanovich Kazakov • Army General Mikhail Sergeevich Malinin • Marshal of Aviation Serhi Gnatovich Rudenko • Major Gabriel Ilyich Urazovsky • War correspondent Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko • Army General Semion Pavlovich Ivanov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko • Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky • Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Ignatyevich Yakubovsky • Marshal of the Soviet Union Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin • Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Semyonovich Biryuzov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Fyodorovich Akhromeyev • Physicist Anatoly Petrovich Alexandrov • Marshal of the Soviet Union Petr Kirillovich Koshevoi • Army General Yakov Grigorevich Kreizer • Colonel General Oka Gorodovikov