Medal for 70th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces.

The Medal was a state military commemorative medal of the Soviet Union established on January 28, 1988, to denote the seventieth anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Armed Forces.
The Medal is a 32mm in diameter circular brass medal with a raised rim on both sides. On its obverse in the center, the relief left overlapping bust profiles of three Soviet servicemen, a pilot wearing a flight helmet at left, a sailor in the middle, a helmeted soldier at right; above then the relief image of a five pointed star containing the hammer and sickle; below them the relief inscription in two rows “1918” and “1988” superimposed on a wreath of oak and laurel going up around the circumference of the medal and separated at the top by the five pointed star. On the reverse, the relief inscription on five rows 70 Лет Вооруженных сил СССР = "70 Years of the USSR Armed Forces" above crossed laurel and oak branches. The medal was secured to a standard Soviet pentagonal mount by a ring through the medal suspension loop. The mount was covered by a 24mm wide red silk moiré ribbon with 2mm green edge stripes and a central 2mm blue stripe bordered by yellow 2mm stripes.