Question: The Medal of Zhukov, named after Soviet Red Army officer Georgy Zhukov, initially awarded veterans from which Russian war?

Context articles: Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda
Ivan Bezugly
Butochiyn Tsog
Pyotr Berestov
Totskoye nuclear exercise
Georgy Zhukov
Medal of Zhukov
White Coke
Order of Zhukov
Zhukov (disambiguation)

Operation Polyarnaya Zvezda (Russian: Операция Полярная звезда, "Operatsia Polyarnaya Zvezda"; English translation: Operation Polar Star) was an operation conducted by the Soviet Leningrad, Volkhov and Northwestern Fronts in February and March 1943.
 The operation was planned by Georgy Zhukov in the wake of the successful Operation Iskra and envisaged two separate encirclements.
 One was to be carried out in the north by the Leningrad and Volkhov Fronts near Mga and one was planned to be carried out further to the south, by the Northwestern Front, near Demyansk.
Ivan Semyonovich Bezugly (sometimes transliterated as Bezuglyi or Bezuglyy: Russian: Иван Семёнович Безуглый ; 1897–1983) was a Soviet Red Army officer who served as commander of the Red Army's 5th Airborne Corps in 1941, the first airborne corps of the Red Army to fight in World War II after the German invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
 Suffering heavy casualties just south of Daugavpils in combat against the advancing "Panzer" units of Army Group North in the summer of 1941, the unit made its way to the Moscow Military District on 15 August.
In 1937, he graduated from the Sumy Artillery School.
 During Battles of Khalkhin Gol, Soviet military leaders, such as Georgy Zhukov, and Nikolai Voronov.
 In 1945, he participated in the Liberation of East Prussia.
 After the end of World War II, he served in the Mongolian People's Army.
 He has held senior positions in the Mongolian Army, such as Chief of Staff, Deputy Minister of Defense, and Minister of Defense.
 In 1985 he retired and went to Moscow with his wife Nataly Barsukovoy.
Pyotr Filippovich Berestov (Russian: Пётр Филиппович Берестов ; December 21 [O.S. December 8] 1896 , Berestovo – November 26, 1961, Zaporozhye) was a Red Army major general during the Second World War.
 Drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in 1917, Berestov participated in the Russian Revolution.
 He was drafted into the Red Army, fighting in the Russian Civil War and the Polish–Soviet War.
 He became a Red Army officer and served in several positions during the interwar period.
 Berestov was arrested and released during the Great Purge.
 He fought in the Winter War as a regimental commander.
 In the early days after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was given command of a People's Militia regiment, which was converted into a regular regiment.
 Berestov led the regiment in the early period of the Battle of Moscow and transferred to lead a regiment of the 82nd Motor Rifle Division.
 Berestov became the division's commander and in the spring of 1942 briefly led the 50th Rifle Division.
 In April, he took command of the 331st Rifle Division, which he led during the rest of the war.
 For his leadership, Berestov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in late June 1945.
 Postwar he commanded the 72nd Guards Rifle Division, which was downsized into a brigade, and the 43rd Guards Rifle Brigade, which became the 113th Guards Rifle Division.
 Berestov retired in 1955 and lived in Zaporozhye until his death in 1961.
The Totskoye nuclear exercise was a military exercise undertaken by the Soviet Army to explore defensive and offensive warfare during nuclear war.
 The exercise, under the code name "Snowball", involved an aerial detonation of a 40 kt RDS-4 nuclear bomb.
 The stated goal of the operation was military training for breaking through heavily fortified defensive lines of a military opponent using nuclear weapons.
 An army of 45,000 soldiers marched through the area around the epicenter soon after the nuclear blast.
 The exercise was conducted on September 14, 1954, at 9.33 a.m., under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov to the north of Totskoye village in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, in the South Ural Military District.
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov 1 December 1896 – 18 June 1974), was a Soviet Red Army officer who became Chief of General Staff, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Minister of Defence and a member of the Politburo.
 During World War II he participated in multiple battles, ultimately commanding the 1st Belorussian Front in the Battle of Berlin, which resulted in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and the end of the War in Europe
The Medal of Zhukov (Russian: медали Жукова ) is a state award of the Russian Federation initially awarded to veterans of the Great Patriotic War but now awarded to serving members of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
 It is named in honour of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, the most decorated general in the history of the Soviet Union.
White Coke (Russian: Бесцветная кока-кола , "Bestsvetnaya koka-kola" ) is a nickname for a clear variant of Coca-Cola produced in the 1940s at the request of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov.
The Order of Zhukov (Russian: Орден Жукова ) is a military decoration of the Russian Federation.
 The order is named in honour of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (1896 - 1974).
The name Zhukov often refers to Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974), a Soviet military leader, vice admiral.
 It may also refer to: