The Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on December 26, 1967 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to denote the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Armed Forces. Its statute was amended on three occasions, by decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1968, of December 19, 1969, and of July 18, 1980.
Attestation of award booklet of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (cover and inside pages)
Reverse of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
General Baluyevsky, a recipient of the Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Boris Gromov
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Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov is a Russian politician and former military officer. He was the Governor of Moscow Oblast between January 2000 and May 2012. Deployed thrice to fight in the Soviet–Afghan War, Gromov was the last Soviet soldier in Afghanistan on 15 February 1989; he commanded the 40th Army and oversaw the Soviet withdrawal.
With President Dmitry Medvedev, 14 October 2008
With President Medvedev and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, January 2011
Gromov, then a colonel general, announces withdrawal of Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989