The medal "50th Anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "(Russian Юбилейная медаль" 50 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг. ") Is a joint award of Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine, (ie, the former Soviet Union ), which mark the 50th Anniversary of the victory of war against Hitler Germany was founded in a stage Patriotic. Thus, for example, the medal 7 July 1993 in Russia, on 26 October 1993 in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Belarus on 14 Founded in March 1995. On 7 September 2010 it lost the status of a Russian state medal award. The medals were mostly all military and civilian people who were involved in the Soviet armed forces in the victory in the Great Patriotic War.