Bronze Medallion from 1828

Would anybody know more about this bronze medallion? It's difficult to read what it says on it. Somebody is selling it for £6, just wondering if it's worth to buy?

Looks like somebody soldiered the top bit recently.

 

Definitely not English language at the top, but can't figure what it is. The figures look Viking? A Scandinavian language?

 

Cyrillic script. There were Vikings in Russia and Ukraine, but maybe this is a later Medieval scene?

 

I didn't think I'd be able to read this at first, but it may commemorate Russians crossing the Danube River in 1828 during the Russo-Turkish war that began that year. I can't make out the first word to the left of the flag, but got all the others: ход через дунаи (modernized in what I copied here, as some of the words on the medallion are written in older style). That translates as "crossing the Danube." The question I have relates to their clothing, which appears to be from an older period than 1828. I can't explain that, unless there was an anniversary that year of an earlier event?

Are there some very tiny words above the year? I can't make out what that is.

 

https://il.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage.../126083/MEDAL-in-commemoration-of-the?lang=en

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/the-great-exhibitions-sale-l06735/lot.511.html

What I'm not sure about in those two links is whether the obverse of those medals is finished. If those are die struck fully-realized medals, then how is it that yours shows only the one side?

 

Those links give a lot of information. Wish I could see the whole set in person.

 

The OP's medallion was cast not die struck.Maybe someones homemade copy.