Medals of the Ministries and Departments of the Russian Federation.

[Christophe]

This is a new book by Ilya Kuzmichev and Alexandr Trifon, published in 2006 by Bratishka Editions (Moscow). Format 70X100mm, 240 pages, 150 copies. Very high quality of printing.

This catalogue is the most complete and exhaustive existing today about the Medals of the Ministries and Departments of the Russian Federation. Are presented the medals (obverse + reverse), docs, regulations...
It deals with medals from March 1992 to December 2005. It is in fact an updated version of a similar catalogue published in 2004 (and already discussed in the Forum).

The following Ministries and Departments' medals are included:

* Ministry of Defence
* Ministry of Internal Affairs
* Ministry of Emergency Measures
* Ministry of Justice
* Federal Security Service - FSB
* Frontier Guard Service
* Federal Protection service - FSO
* Federal Service of external Investigation - SVR
* Federal Railway Service
* SPETSTROI
* Federal agency for Governmental Communication and Information - FAPSI
* State Communications Service
* State Customs Committee
* Presidential Service of Special Objects
* Federal Service of Control of Narcotics

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