Russia - USSR Medal for Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway 1976 Leningrad Mint

Brass; 32 mm; The Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway" (Russian: Медаль «За строительство Байкало-Амурской магистрали») was a civilian award of the Soviet Union established on October 8, 1976 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to recognise active participation in the construction of the Baikal-Amur Railway, a huge multi year project under the leadership of then Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev. The medal's statute was amended on July 18, 1980 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR № 2523-X.