This is an award that my mother Malka Zaltzberg received in 1939 for her excellent work in Odessa Scientific Research Institute of Tuberculosis.
In 1919 my mother finished a six-month course of medical nurses and entered the Medical Faculty of Novorossiysk University. She graduated in 1922. She became a doctor at the central tuberculosis outpatient clinic called White Flower. Later this clinic joined the Odessa Scientific Research Institute of Tuberculosis.
My mother was always a good doctor. In 1943 she defended her dissertation for the title of candidate of medical services and in 1947 she was awarded the title of senior scientific employee.