A competition of sketches of four medals has started in Sevastopol

A competition to develop designs for four awards has started in Sevastopol. These are the medal named after Alexei Andreevich Maksimov, the medal “For impeccable service to the city of Sevastopol,” the medal “For courage and fidelity to duty,” the medal “For assistance in a special military operation.”

The medal named after Alexey Andreevich Maksimov will be awarded for outstanding achievements and special services to the city of Sevastopol in charitable and philanthropic activities, the medal “For impeccable service to the city of Sevastopol” — for outstanding achievements and special services to the city of Sevastopol in socio-economic, scientific research, cultural and social activities, the medal “For Courage and Devotion to Duty” — for demonstrated courage, boldness and bravery in the performance of military, official or civil duty, law enforcement, emergency response, including in conditions involving risk to life, medal “ For assistance in a special military operation” — for an active civic position in carrying out activities aimed at helping participants of the military military district.

Citizens of the Russian Federation can take part in the competition personally or as part of teams of authors. You can submit several sketches at the same time — for each of the medals.

Authors’ works will be accepted from May 21 to June 4, 2024.

To participate in the competition you must:

• create a sketch of a medal, depicted in any way on paper or using a graphic editor;
• describe the medal with justification for the use of certain symbols, justification of the value-semantic content of the design elements of the medal, its name (no more than 500 printed characters);
• fill application form indicating the surname, first name, patronymic, date of birth, place of work (study), address of residence (residence), contact telephone number, email address;
• fill out and sign agreement for the processing of personal data.

Please note: to submit designs for multiple medals, you must collect and send a separate package of documents for each design.

Documents along with a sketch of the medal must be sent by June 4 to the following email address: apparat@sev.gov.ru. The subject of the letter must indicate the name of the medal for which you are submitting a design.

The main criteria for evaluating a medal design:

• originality of solutions;
• high artistic expressiveness and aesthetic appearance;
• correspondence to the theme of the medal.

The commission evaluates the medal designs using a point system from one to ten in accordance with the criteria. The results of the competition will be summed up no later than ten calendar days from the closing date for applications.

We pay special attention to the fact that when making a sketch of a medal, external resemblance to state awards of the Russian Federation is not allowed. It is unacceptable to use images of state symbols of the Russian Federation, a pentagonal block covered with a moiré ribbon, forms of signs similar to the forms of state awards of the Russian Federation, departmental awards established by the federal executive bodies of the Russian Federation, executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (primarily four-pointed equal crosses with flared ends, four- and eight-pointed order stars).

source: press service of the Government of Sevastopol