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Link:

www.horse.ru and Mr. Google..

(i'm online using mobile phone, have difficulties in posting link) :speechless:

Another try: Is it Troika?

The monument is located on Troika square, Burgas, Bulgaria.. :)

Sorry, not brown horseman but BRONZE HORSEMAN statue on St. Petersburg.. :P

OK, i guess it's horse..

The monument is on St. Petersburg, known as Brown Horseman..

en.m.wikipedia/wiki/List_of_Statues

This is Katyusha song..

Pears and apples blossomed on their branches.

Mist (was) creeping on the river.

Katyusha set out on the banks,

On the steep and lofty bank.

She was walking, singing a song

About a grey steppe eagle,

About her true love,

Whose letters she was keeping.

Oh you song! Little song of a maiden,

Head for the bright sun.

And reach for the soldier on the far-away border

Along with greetings from Katyusha.

Let him remember an ordinary girl,

And hear how she sings,

Let him preserve the native land,

Same as Katyusha preserves their love.

I'll try, is it Katyusha? the Katyusha monument is located at 17 km of roads of life, outside the village Kornevo. On the spot where the monument was erected in the years of the siege of Leningrad was the battery, covered the airfield in the town of Corner Road of Life and of air raids. Architects Chulkevich L., Melnikov, A. Levenkov. Established in 1966.

It's a generic name, a song title, a name of a rocket too..

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/katyusha.htm

http://visualrian.ru/ru/site/gallery/#501963

windu

This is a modern piece - 2003 to the present! (I think it was 2003 anyway where they made the change from the previous style).

so they use new dies??

JimZ,,

I see in a web that he's a close friend of Rokossovsky, in some other web i found Rukossovsky quote about Batov, and i found their photo too (but i forgot the websites, one of the website is RIA Novosti if i'm not fail to remember)

And about the number of Lenin that he got: i'm sorry, i'm not search it well so i got false information..

I have search on some web before posting that question, just to make that it reachable and check his background (i think we can see that he has a good career isn't it??)

JimZ, i'm sorry if my question was hard..

I choose Batov as my question because I think Batov is a very very famous man; got a lot of award (from Soviet itself and foreign), participate on Spanish Civil war, became the chairman of Soviet Veteran, etc..

And of course he's a well respected officer too..

Thank you Harvey, but I think I'll pass the honor of posting a question to Valter..

I have to prepare for Tax 1 final exams tomorrow (i take short semester)..

Wish me luck on this final exams..

Windu :cheers:

Harvey's question: Vasily Zaytsev!!

Famous as a sniper with 242 virified kills, especially during battle of Stalingard (225)..

His story insiring a film: Enemy at the Gates

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Zaytsev

:cheers:

OK, Harvey got it first, your point, just 2 minute before Valter..

Well done all..!!

p.s.: sorry, i read in a website that he just got 5 Order of Lenin..

Thank you for the correction.. :)

a nice original IMHO, very-vary nice, and a rare mm too..

i just acquire EK2 mm128 some weeks ago..

I think i have to add one more clue, so this question can be answered, and we can continue to the next question..

a big clue: HE INVOLVED IN SPANISH CIVIL WAR..!! :cheers:

sorry, i can't attach the photo..

OK, the 2nd clue: he got 5 Order of Lenin..

come on Gentlemen.. :cheers:

OK, 2 clue for today:

1. he died in 80' decade

2. his decoration:

None of above Jim..

One last clue for today: he died far after WW2 ended..

windu

...easy to say when you know the answer...

MMM...tough one windu...we'll wait for a hint......

Jim

It's not as tough as you thoughts.. ;)

1200 euros?? normally you can get 3 nice looking EK1, or even more.. :speechless:

another clue: in 1915 he enlisted on Russian Army..

sorry, not him.. :)

wow, a beautiful order, can you tell us what order is this and the details about it?

unfortunately not him.. :)

keep trying gentlemen..

(i'll give one more clue tomorrow if still no one can answer..)