The Medal For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR

The Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR" (Russian: Медаль «За преобразование Нечерноземья РСФСР») was a civilian award of the Soviet Union established on September 30, 1977 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR to recognise three years of dedicated work in developing Soviet agriculture in the non-black earth regions of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The medal's statute was amended on July 18, 1980 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR № 2523-X.
The Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR" was a 32 mm in diameter circular medal struck from tombac. On the obverse, in the right half, the relief image of a tractor pulling a plough through a field below a rising Sun over a distant tree line; at left the relief images of barns, grain elevators and power transmission towers; along the medal's lower circumference, the relief inscription "For transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR" (Russian: «За преобразование Нечерноземья РСФСР»), along the upper left circumference, a panicle of wheat; the obverse had a raised rim. On the reverse, at center, the relief image of the hammer and sickle with wheat spikes below a relief five pointed star emitting rays.

The Medal "For Transforming the Non-Black Earth of the RSFSR" was secured to a standard Soviet pentagonal mount by a ring through the medal suspension loop. The mount was covered by a 24 mm wide overlapping green silk moiré ribbon with 2 mm yellow edge stripes and a 6 mm central blue stripe.