A set of 16 different military and civic medals including a medal In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 16, 1957 and awarded to prominent members of Soviet society including veterans of the Great Patriotic War and serving members of the armed forces for wartime and peacetime services to the Hero City of Leningrad, a jubilee medal 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR, a jubilee medal Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, two jubilee medals Fifty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, a National Defense Service bronze medal, the face with an American bald eagle perched on a sword and palm branch, the reverse with a shield paly of thirteen pieces, alternatively silver and gules with azure in chief from the Arms of the United States of America, a wreath of oak and laurel below. It was instituted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 22 April 1953 and has been awarded for honorable active service in the Armed Forces. Also contains a vintage Excellent Soviet Army Soldier badge, and more European military and civic medals and badges, and vintage patches.