Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal for the Restoration of the Donbas Coal Mines, c. 1947 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Constructed of gilded and patinated

Constructed of gilded and patinated bronze with blue enamels

issued to Oberleutnant Heinz Pohle

the "plane came in on the target run straight as an arrow

It was published in 1980 by Peerage Books of London

(in bronze gilt

Russia, Soviet Union. A Medal for the Restoration of the Donbas Coal Mines, c. 1947 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac Constructed of gilded and patinated( ). Instituted September 10th, 1947. A circular gilded brass medal, the obverse with an image of a restored mine with a leftward facing helmeted miner carrying a jackhammer on his right shoulder, circumscribed For the Restoration of the Donbas Coal Mines with a five pointed star and laurels at the base, the reverse bears the Hammer and Sickle over the inscription Labour in the USSR A Matter of Honour in Russian script, suspended from a pentagonal