Soviet A small group

[Hauptmann]

Hi all,

Okay, here's a small group. I picked this up a number of years ago for $30. I liked it because of the Chernobyl medal, the fact that it was a group to one individual and that the Chernobyl had the booklet.

From what I understand it was all awarded to Kordiakin Porfiriy Semionovitch and contains the following:

20 Years of Victory with booklet

40 Years of Victory with booklet (military type)

50 Years of Victory with booklet (issued in Ukraine)

Chernobyl Disaster medal with booklet (issued by factory Bolshevik in 1990)

This was explained to me as follows:

The medals were issued by the government but handed out at the recipient's work place. So this individual used to work for a factory named Bolshevik.

Edited April 13, 2006 by Hauptman

[Hauptmann]

Here are the award booklets:

[Hauptmann]

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[Hauptmann]

Nice little group to an old soldier who had to endure nuclear hell at Chernobyl.

Thanks,

Dan

[Bryan]

It's the first time I see a 1995 jubilee medal with a used ribbon like this. Normally they are all new.

[Hauptmann]

It's the first time I see a 1995 jubilee medal with a used ribbon like this. Normally they are all new.

Really? Have had this for ages... came just this way. I keep them all together and haven't changed a thing. Wanted it just like the original recipient had it.

My biggest question on his group is why he wouldn't have received the 30th Victory medal? With the 20th, 40th and 50th I'd think he should have gotten it. But perhaps he did and it just didn't come with the group.

I'm not positive but I think he died and his grandchildren were the ones that sold it to the dealer I got it from.

I wish I knew more of the history and better yet had a picture of him. Had to have been a brave man to face Chernobyl.