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This is ORIGINAL Soviet medal For the Development of Virgin Lands. It was a civilian award of the Soviet Union established on October 26, 1956 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to recognize individuals who displayed superior performance in labor over two years connected with the Virgin Lands Campaign started in 1954 by Nikita Khrushchev to cultivate 36,000,000 hectares of previously uncultivated lands in Kazakhstan, Siberia, the Urals, the Volga area and the northern Caucasus. It is made out of brass; size is 3.5 inches; medal diameter is 1.25 inches.
