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Here is an award card and citation for this Red Banner. Name: Ivan Matveevich Dagilis Rank: Batallion Comissar (political officer rank equal to Captain) Position: Political assistant officer of the 1st Battalion commander, 20th Tank Regiment, 10th Tank Division, South-Eastern Front. Comrade Dagilis was a tank commander during the enemy lines attack on June 23, 1941 near the town of Radzehuv. Leading the attack forces with his tank he penetrated inside enemy tanks formation and managed to set on fire 2 enemy tanks. German troops concentrated intense artillery fire on his tank, so his tank got around 40 direct hits of armor piercing shells. His main gun, machine gun and tracks were damaged, both periscopes were destroyed and tank was set on fire. Only after that comrade Dagilis retreated and saved his crew. For this action commander of 10th Tank Division General Ogurtsov recommended Dagilis for Red Banner award Commander of South-Eastern Front awarded Dagilis with Red Banner on November 5, 1941. As you can see from his award card, Dagilis survived the war and finished it with the rank of Guards Colonel and in position of the Commander of 360th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment. He was awarded with 3 Red Banners and OGPW 1st class.
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Top military orders award cards
Mondvor replied to Mondvor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Hello Egorka, If you are still interested in trading award cards for Polkovodets awards we can do that. Lets start with Hmelnitsky 2nd class Here is a list of the numbers I am interested in 508 ; 589 ; 590 ; 593 ; 957 ; 958 ; 966 ; 971 ; 978 ; 985. I can offer you those numbers to trade, let me know which ones you need - 387, 388, 399, 400, 415, 418, 420, 421, 429, 443, 451. You can email me to kuznetsov@optonline.net Best regards, Andrew Kuznetsov. -
Top military orders award cards
Mondvor replied to Mondvor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Top military orders award cards
Mondvor replied to Mondvor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Thank you very much. This is what I am looking for. Unfortunately order number is not indicated in this card. This is an early type of award card. Some of them don't have award's number (like yours), but some do have it written on the second page like this... And by the way, General Travin did have another award card with all his awards listed except for this Kutuzov. -
Top military orders award cards
Mondvor replied to Mondvor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Sergeant Gnitienko's "Glory-Trio"
Mondvor replied to Christian Zulus's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Christian, my congratulations with those amazing documents. So, the truth finally came out. I'm really happy that former Soviet archives helped you to prove the authenticity of Gnitienko's full Glory set. Now even the most sceptical members of the forum should agree that this group is OK -
Soviet Red Star for medical doctor at the front
Mondvor replied to zook's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Excellent story, thanks. It's a very lucky event to find an early Red Star to a woman. However, she was in a rank of Major, not Jr. Lieutenant. For Jr. Lieutenant it would be "voyenfeldsher 3rd class" (военфельдшер 3-го ранга). -
Soviet Unknown Russian Medal
Mondvor replied to Bill Garvy's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
During Chernobyl's disaster I lived in Kiev which is only 100 miles away from the nuclear power plant. I remember lots of interesting things happened that spring. For example all buses disappeared from Kiev for three days. As I found out later, they were used to evacuate the entire population of Chernobyl, Pripyat and other smaller towns around the power station. Later those buses returned to regular city lines after short deactivation procedures (just washed them with water). -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Normally, higher was the rank and position of the officer, more chances he has gotten to repair his damaged award. For example, this sophisticated repair was not possible in trench conditions. -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
That is correct. However, sometimes our veterans overreact in their efforts to keep their awards bright and shiny for annual parades. They polished them heavily every year and the results vere pretty dramatic -
Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Order of the Glory II class
Mondvor replied to Noor's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
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Soviet Elena Stanislavovna Tarasevitch
Mondvor replied to Ed_Haynes's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Oh yes, I've seen "The widowmaker" three years ago. It is a great movie with nice casting (Harrison Ford is very good) and everything looks real except some dialoges. Russians do not talk that way, that was little bit weird. But overall it is a "must see" movie. Sorry for off-topic. -
Soviet Elena Stanislavovna Tarasevitch
Mondvor replied to Ed_Haynes's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
You are right, Christian. Gorbachev had received RBL # 88292 by the Decree from April 16, 1949 for harvesting 8853,14 centners (1 centner = 100 kilograms) during 20 working days. He was operating assistant on combine harvester "Stalinets-6". -
Soviet Elena Stanislavovna Tarasevitch
Mondvor replied to Ed_Haynes's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Same holds true for workers and collective farmers. I've seen many complete groups for those people, where the first award was Lenin, RBL or BH order. Lots of them received HSL title without previously being awarded with any other order or medal. Most often that had happened in the first half of 1950th. -
Soviet N.S.KHRUSHCEV COMMUNIST DOCUMENTS
Mondvor replied to rboomsma's topic in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
Oh, of course I've seen that the person under name "rokas" have had many fakes for sale in the past. -
Soviet N.S.KHRUSHCEV COMMUNIST DOCUMENTS
Mondvor replied to rboomsma's topic in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
OK, thanks! Of course I'm not a big expert in such documents, but from those pictures I would not say that they are fakes. Look real to me. -
Soviet N.S.KHRUSHCEV COMMUNIST DOCUMENTS
Mondvor replied to rboomsma's topic in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
Can you give a link to the documents you mentioned? -
Fake Is this Soviet ODM real or not?
Mondvor replied to usairforce's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
There are at least 6 features on this order that are not correct. For example, the arch (window) on the tower should be ONLY single-bordered for all 1st class Glories. On this order the arch is double-bordered. -
Soviet Glory 2nd and 3rd Group
Mondvor replied to zook's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Zook, thanks for sharing this Glory group. Can you post a close images of the orderbook from the other group? It looks very complete. -
Soviet And another ORB for the collection...
Mondvor replied to Gerd Becker's topic in Russia: Soviet Orders, Medals & Decorations
Unfortunately for the Order of Lenin chances are not that good as for the other awards. I've seen many groups where the only missing thing was Lenin. In 80th and early 90th Red Stars, GPWs and Red Banners were pretty cheap. Their price was around 10 - 25 USD and one would not have much profit by selling them. At the same time Lenin was 300 USD because it was made of 0.900 gold. When I just started my career as a dentist in one of Kiev's city clinics in 1998 I met an old dental technician. He told me a horrible story that 15 - 20 years ago every week they destroyed 2 to 3 Lenins to make golden crowns or bridges (they were popular). Regular gold jewelery was made of 0.583 or 0.585 gold and it was not enough for golden crowns. But Lenin with 0.900 gold (as well as Russian Empire 5 and 10 Rouble coins) perfectly matched the standarts of dental appliances. So many Lenins all over USSR were lost forever. You can see their traces observing "golden smiles" of some old Russian folks