Need help further identifying 1980 Moscow medal - close up added

1960NYGiants

A friend has this medal but cannot find any info on it. It is 65mm, only 37grams, probably aluminum. Anyone have info on it: souvenir / tourist medallion, participants medal, volunteer medal, what is it?

YQQ

Gene,
I tried with every European source I have access to and nobody knows anything about it.

a couple suggestion were that it is a mass made token which was given away free...
But, why are there not more if it is that?

Steve27

My guess is that it was a privately produced medal for the 1980 Moscow Olympics, because this is the official medal:

ormandh

Definitely a tourist souvenir, because it is in English.

ormandh

I correct myself.

windwhispersintrees

I suspect the answer lies in the designer/mint (?) info in small letters at bottom left of the first image.
Got a close up?

Zot

Being fairly nearby, I've seen plenty of stuff from the Moscow olympics, but never this medal.
It's not a participants medal, and not one of a handful of other common ones either.

I've tried reading the small text near the edge.. It appears to say Kornilov (Корнилов ) 1980 (?), and an initial before that I can't see.
A closeup might help.

I tried searching for it in Russian as well. No luck.
Interesting. I'd think it's a souvenir/tourist medal of some sort.

1960NYGiants

Here's a close up of the lettering per several requests. Also, there is no edge markings.

Steve, I found many images like the one in your post but none like mine.

Thanks again guys.

Zot

It does say S.Kornilov 1980 and has a Leningrad mint mark.
This sounds like plenty of information to go on, but I still can't seem to find anything about it.

PBRat

Maybe it was produced by the Kornilov Brothers Factory ... though they seem to focus on porcelain.