the presence of other medals of the USSR, immediately after the Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". If worn in the presence of awards of the Russian Federation, the latter have precedence. Each medal came with an attestation of award, this attestation came in the form of a small 8 cm by 11 cm cardboard booklet bearing the award's name, the recipient's particulars and an official stamp and signature on the inside. Medal description The Medal "Veteran of Labour" was designed by artist SA Pomansky. It was a 34 mm in diameter circular medal struck from tombac and then silver-plated and oxidised. The obverse of the medal bears the relief image of the hammer and sickle over the inscription "USSR" () with diverging rays, a laurel branch spans the width of the obverse from right to left passing under the sickle's handle in an upward curve, along the lower and right circumference, a ribbon bearing the relief inscription "VETERAN OF LABOUR" (). The otherwise plain reverse bears the inscription on four lines "FOR LONG DILIGENT WORK" (). The Medal "Veteran of Labour" was secured by a ring through the medal suspension loop to a standard Soviet pentagonal mount covered by a 24mm wide overlapping silk moiré ribbon with 1 mm wide white edge stripes and coloured from left to right by a 7 mm wide dark grey stripe, an 8 mm wide light grey stripe, and three 2 mm wide red stripes separated by two 0.5 mm wide white stripes. Apparently, there is a variation of the medal, being struck in silver as opposed to tombac, but this has not yet been verified. Recipients (partial list) The individuals below were all recipients of the Medal "Veteran of Labour". Test pilot Yury Garrievich Abramovich Poet and bard Evgeny Danilovich Agranovich Sculptor Zair Isaakovich Azgur Painter and architect Valery Vladimirovich Androsov Engineer Sergey Aleksandrovich Afanasyev Economist Sopubek Begaliev Aero engine engineer Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Boguslayev Actress Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya Stage and a film actor Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik Rocket engine designer Valentin Petrovich Glushko Rocket scientist Peter Dmitrievich Grushin Mezzo-soprano singer Zara Aleksandrova Dolukhanova Actor and writer Georgiy Stepanovich Zhzhonov Theatre and cinema actor Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin Former Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Alekseyevich Zubkov Folk singer Lyudmila Georgievna Zykina Singer Iosif Davydovich Kobzon People's Artist of the USSR composer Quddus Khodzham'iarovich Kuzhamiyarov Director of civil aviation Nikolai Alexeyevich Kuznetsov