31/07/2026
A rare, duplicate Award Booklet for the Jubilee Medal “XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army”, bestowed on the 23rd April 1980 - 42 years after the initial award- to Major-General Martirosyan Gayk Oganesovich [pictured], a Soviet minority [Armenian], Commander of the 239th Motorized Rifle Division during the Moscow (1941-1942) and Rzhev (1942-1943) battles, and then Deputy and acting Commander of the 43rd Army and Commander of the 90th Rifle Corps of the 1st Baltic Front in the defeat of the German troops in the Baltics and East Prussia, including the assault on Königsberg.
