Christian Zulus' Soviet Awards Collection

[Christian Zulus]

Gentlemen,

I am going to present some items of my Soviet Awards Collection here at the "Collectors Showcase". In the posts I show at least one photograph of the award or the group and I put the link to the specific thread(s) in the GMIC-Soviet-Section, where there are much more and far better pics of the award(s) and the documents + all the expertises & commentaries of GMIC-members.

I will start with some documented groups, then the military awards, labour awards, badges, ID-booklets and photographs.

Please have a look at the end of this thread, where I posted some new photographed items .

Best regards

Christian

Edited October 18, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[Christian Zulus]

Sergeant Gnitienko's full cavalier set of the Order of Glory - 1st part

The set is documented and fully researched.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5536

[Christian Zulus]

Sergeant Gnitienko's full cavalier set of the Order of Glory - 2nd part

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=5536

[Christian Zulus]

Soviet Airforce-Major Baranovsky's group - 1st part

The group - RB & RB#2 - is documented, but incomplete (Lenin, RS + medals are missing ) and still unresearched.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24254

[Christian Zulus]

Soviet Airforce-Major Baranovsky's group - 2nd part

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24254

[Christian Zulus]

Soviet Navy-Commodore Captain 1st Rank Kandybin's group

Complete, comprehensive (18 items!), fully documented and fully researched - including WW II awards.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11948

Edited October 18, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[Christian Zulus]

Order of the Red Banner 3rd award

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24256

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Order of Kutuzov 2nd class

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=26254

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Two Orders of Alexander Nevsky type 2

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31589

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14011

Edited October 18, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[Christian Zulus]

Two Orders for Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 2nd class

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25540

[Christian Zulus]

Nakhimov Medal

Documented - awarded to comrade Gnultshinsky -, but incomplete (one medal is missing ) and still unresearched.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=24257

[Christian Zulus]

Gold Medal Hammer and Sickle of a Hero of Socialist Labour

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25642

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Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour

Type 2 (early screwback) and type 3 with a much lower serial number as the screwback (!).

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=25331

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=31590

Edited October 19, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[Christian Zulus]

Order of Friendship among Nations

Documented - awarded to comrade Gladsky.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1016...mp;#entry213411

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Meritorious Pilot of the USSR

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2422...mp;#entry230714

and

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2422...mp;#entry238796

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Excellent Sniper Badge

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14149

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Excellent Submariner Badge

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=14152

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Voluntary Militia Auxiliary Badge

Documented, awarded to comrade Lavrentiev.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=12270

[Christian Zulus]

Soviet General's ID-Booklet from 1950

Awarded to comrade Skuba, commander of a tank brigade during the battle of Stalingrad.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=11895

[Christian Zulus]

Yevgeny Dolmatovski photographed by Yevgeny Khaldei, 2nd of may 1945 in Berlin

Original gelatin silver print (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in or 20,9 x 16,5 cm) done by the photographer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Khaldei himself and signed & numbered at the revers. The picture shows the Soviet poet and writer Yevgeny Dolmatovski in front of the Reichstag.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtop...st&p=172964 (Quiz-question #108)

Edited March 15, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[nesredep]

Hello!

Impressive Awards Collection,thanks for sharing.

All the best

Nesrdep

[Christian Zulus]

Impressive Awards Collection,thanks for sharing.

All the best

Dear Nesredep,

many thanks for your appreciation .

In comparison to other collections, mine is rather small & humble - I still miss a HSU, Labour Glory 1cl and an Odessa-Medal in my collection and from the range of the really high-end generals/admirals orders I only have a Kutuzov 2cl in my collection . In the early 1990s I tried my best, but now, I don't have that amount of cash to take part in the run for the missing high-end items ... The collectors from Russia have a bit more to offer ...

Best regards

Christian

Edited March 16, 2008 by Christian Zulus

[Paul R]

Dear Nesredep,

many thanks for your appreciation .

In comparison to other collections, mine is rather small & humble - I still miss a HSU, Labour Glory 1cl and an Odessa-Medal in my collection and from the range of the really high-end generals/admirals orders I only have a Kutuzov 2cl in my collection . In the early 1990s I tried my best, but now, I don't have that amount of cash to take part in the run for the missing high-end items ... The collectors from Russia have a bit more to offer ...

Best regards

Christian

You soviet collection is pure quality! I did not see a single "common" item in the lot! The photo of Comrade Yevgeny Dolmatovski is nothing less than stellar, and is one for the reference books!

[Christophe]

Hi Christian,

Nothing to add, except these are superb and outstanding pieces!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!!! A collection like these would today be very very hard to gather....

Cheers.

Ch.

[Ed_Haynes]

Nice, Christian. Thanks for the effort to put these up. Nice to see all them in one place!