Bill Garvy

Honored Railway Employee, #54909, with document dated May 23rd, 1945 issued to NKVD Major G. K. Pavkin, Senior Operational Commissioner of the Department of Transportation Support of the NKVD of the Ryazan-Ural Railway (Старший Оперативный Уполномоченный Отдел Транспортного Обеспечения HKBD РУР Ж.Д. - Рязано-Уральской железной дороги), “For the successful implementation of the plan for loading and unloading.”

Thank you, Joel & Nick, the sets displayed are incomplete, missing the large certificate and boxes for the award and documents. As I have heard it said, if I have to ask how much it costs, I can't afford it, or words to that effect. Here is the documents set without the Order to Eve Iosifovna Gaychene/Gaychenya Large Certificate for the Title of Mother Heroine dated July 19th, 1979 Order Book (#A297220) for the Title & Order of Mother Heroine (#295706) dated July 19th, 1979

Thanks, Paul, it does have a lot of character and a nice patina...

You're welcome, Nick, and thank you for your kind observation. Order Book (#002488) dated February 5th, 1946 for the Title & Order Mother Heroine (#2787) issued to Marii Gavrilovna Chepurnaya, hand signed by Chairman of the Presidium Kalinin and Secretary Gorkin.

Order Book (#055161) for the Title & Order Mother Heroine (#51385) issued to Adezle Karlovna Raamat on December 28th, 1956. Order Book (#118599) issued to Mamlakat Yuldasheva dated September 6th, 1968 for the Title & Order Mother Heroine (#109704) August 23rd, 1968.

Order of the Badge of Honor #169522 Order of the Badge of Honor #181874 Order of the Badge of Honor #785629

Respectfully, I disagree. Although there were approximately twice as many Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (~1,200,000) as Orders of the Red Banner (~581,000) awarded, the Red Banner of Labor, which was established as the civilian counterpart to the military/long service Order of the Red Banner, remained the highest labor award bestowed. Only the Hero of Socialist Labor/Order of Lenin and Order of the October Revolution were preeminent, political considerations notwithstanding. Nick, thank you very much for sharing your father's impressive array of awards, documents, and compelling history!

Orders of Timofei Kirillovich Levchenko, Chief Agronomist of the Collective Farm named after Gerasimenko, Chernigiv Oblast, city of Anisov, Ukraine SSR, February 1975 to June 1982. Order Book (#I120434) dated December 28th, 1977 for Order of the October Revolution, #94090, December 22nd, 1977. Order Book (#Z141231) dated December 30th, 1973 for Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #887732, December 8th, 1973. Order Book (#Zh638631) dated May 3rd, 1971 for Order of the Badge of Honor, #550478, April 8th, 1971. Order of the October Revolution, #94090 Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #887732 Order of the Badge of Honor, #550478

Thank you, regardless it is an extraordinary set!

Any chance to see the entire document? Just wondering...

Командир 21-й Стрелковой Бригады ВВ НКВД УО = Commander of the 21st Rifle Brigade of the NKVD "HKBD" = The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Народный Kомиссариат Bнутренних Дел) Подполковник Петрунин = Lieutenant-Colonel Petrunin "УО" may be an acronym for "Учебный Отдел" or Training Division "BB" = may be an acronym for "Внутренние Войска" or Internal Troops

Honored Railroad Employee, Type 1, #5270, late 1930’s Honored Rail-worker Badge, #80545, circa late 1940's Honored Rail-worker Badge, #104480, circa late 1950's Honored Railroad Employee, #95441, 1955 Honored Railroad Employee, #95660, 1955 Honored Railroad Employee, #29008, 1944 Honored Railroad Employee, #61322, 1946

Order Book (#K150498) dated December 25th, 1980 issued to Mariya Petrovna Gorbil’, Order of the October Revolution, #83708, December 16th, 1980, Milkmaid, Chernigiv Oblast, city of Gorbove, Ukraine SSR. Order of the October Revolution, #83708, and link to local site where she and other townsfolk are honored: http://www.kulykivka.org.ua/menu/rayonna_vlada/silrada/06_Gorbove/vidatn_zeml/

Documents group of Leonid Alekseevich Uchenko Document for the Medal for the Development of the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia awarded on March 21st, 1979, facsimile signature of the Secretary (Neshkov) of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. Order Book (#Zh674835) dated May 24th, 1971 for Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #644902, May 7th, 1971. Document for the Badge Winner Socialist Competition, 1973, dated December 20th, 1973 by the College of Ministry of Transport and the Central Trade Union of Road Transport and Highways, Minister of Transport Construction, E. Kozhevnikov, & Chairman of the Central Committee of the Union, V. Konnov. Document for the Badge Shock-Worker of the 11th Five-Year Plan dated December 6th, 1982. I was told is that he was a born in the Lviv region in Western Ukraine, but later moved to Nizhnevartovsk, a town in Siberia famous for oil production. As he got older, and due to health issues, he had to move back to his native region.

It was in a batch of Red Stars I purchased some time ago, and I guess I got lucky; quite a feat for a man my age, ahem...