RARE Collection of 16 USSR Medals / Awards with Certificates. These were awarded mostly when L. Kuchma was the president (of Ukraine). These are vintage Military Service Medals Certifications Document Pins. The medals commemorate events such as “20 Years after the Victory in the Great Patriotic War” (20 years after the War over the Nazis, or 1965), or types of military or civil service. Got these in Ukraine or Crimea somewhere in the early 2000′s. May have been Zaporozhe. There are a couple of Marshall Zhukov (of WW2 fame) medals. These are not medals awarded during WW2, they are anniversary of WW2 medals, for Veterans. One certificate without a Medal, and one Medal without a certificate.