Medal · Soviet Union
медаль «За преобразование Нечерноземья РСФСР»
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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.
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