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Thanks Auke, I think I'll probably try that next and if it comes back negative, try a different award! Tom

I have Red Star 3666016, do you think its worth a shot at something interesting post war? Tom

Awesome. I've never seen anything like that before. It seems odd that they wouldn't just give a RBOL or BOH, i'm intrigued to learn more!

I saw this award. I wish so much i had seen it an hour our so earlier and i would have bought it myself. Glad to see it went to an appreciative collector though. If you ever want to trade or sell it, Paul, please look me up

Personally, i think the increase was partly due to the way the war started going from 1943 onwards. Pushing the Germans back through eastern Europe, not as "on the ropes" any more. Also, i think awards must have been used in some way as a morale booster during the bloody campaigns and battles of the push towards Germany. "Comrades our losses have been many but private look how brave and courageous comrade x has been in his fight for our motherland, URA!" These are just my opinions though :-)

Auke, Have you compared the reults of the posthumous awards per year to number of reported KIA's per year to see if there is any correlation there? Awardings of everything rockedted in 1943 though didnt it? I mean, they even had to bring in the Order of Glory etc as well! I have myself gathered information on labour award volumes during the post war years, trying to map fluctuations in awarding and seeing if there is any correlation to Socio-economic factors of the age. Thats a topic for another day though! Cheers, Tom

I love this award. Such a cool write up!

Eric got it. Early Red Banner, Combat Services Medal, Defence of the Caucasus Medal The badge looks like a parachutist badge to me but there are so many types of parachutist badge that it would be incredibly hard to tell which one without a better photo.

Pm sent Dave.

Awesome! Regarding his party membership, i believe that one of the reasons lots of people joined the party is that your family would be informed if you were KIA. Id think it unusual that a non party member would have been NKVD, but there you go! Thanks for sharing. Tom

Its nice, Any chance of a shot without the screwplate? Tom

Very nice! Id love to have this unusual piece for myself. Thanks for sharing . Tom

Want!

That's the line that interested me the most. I read it as "Comrade Primyak is well aware of how little food we have, but he won't let anyone else know how up the creek we are. Here's an Order for keeping schtum"

If you check a couple of threads in this Soviet section he's posted here, drop him a PM. I look forward to seeing the results!

Award sheet Award sheet 1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Priymak, Ivan Yevdokimovich 2. Rank: Major of the Quartermaster Service 3. Position and unit: Chief of staff of a reserve airfield servicing battalion of the 8th Air Army [corrected from Chief of the Procurement Group for Agricultural Products in Polish and German Territory] Nominated for: Order of the Red Star 4. Year of birth: 1909 5. Nationality: Russian 6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party 7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War since 1941 8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No 9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1934 10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Lozavaya Raion, city of Lozovaya, Kharkov Oblast 11. Awards received previously (for which merits): Medal for Courage and Medal for Combat Merit 12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________ Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits: Comrade Priymak has been serving with the army's Quartermaster Supply Section since April 1945, having been transferred from the officers' reserve of the army's Personnel Section. Being an old and experienced administrator, he was appointed chief of the procurement group tasked with procuring agricultural products and meat in Polish and German territory. Heading the procurement group during this period, comrade Priymak showed himself an excellent procurement organizer. He properly assigned his subordinate officers and soldiers and under his leadership 310 heads of cattle and 200 tons of food grain were procured. Comrade Priymak is a disciplined and cultured officer. He is morally stalwart and capably of keeping military secrets. He is dedicated to the Party of Lenin and Stalin and the socialist motherland. He deserves the Order of the Red Star. Chief of the Quartermaster Supply Section of the 8th Air Army Major of the Quartermaster Service [signed] /Neglyad/ May 15, 1945 I agree with the characterization; he deserves the Order of the Red Star. Deputy commander for rear area affairs of the 8th Air Army Major General of Aviation [signed] /Malyshev/ May 19, 1945 By Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945 awarded the Order of the Red Banner [sic]. Senior assistant chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Personnel Section of the 8th Air Army Major [signed] /Belyayev/

Record card Record card Order booklet nr. A-012856 1. Last name: Priymak 2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Yevdokimovich 3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel of the Quartermaster Service 4. Sex: Male 5. Year of birth: 1909 6. Place of birth: Village of Krasivoye, Alekseyevka Raion, Kharkov Oblast 7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1941 8. Education: Secondary, unfinished 9. Nationality: Ukrainian 10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: Since 1934 11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the Quartermaster Section of military unit nr. 74402 12. Current place of service and position: Unemployed, retired 13. Home address of the awardee: 44 Schmidt Street, apartment 16, city of Sverdlovsk 14. Record of all awards received: Name of the order or medal Serial number Number of the document Ground of award Medal for Courage 51427 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the Southwestern Front nr. 042/N of February 23, 1942 Medal for Combat Merit 1585066 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 3, 1944 Order of the Red Star 1464657 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945 Order of the Red Star 2928960 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 15, 1950 Order of the Red Banner 443010 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 5, 1954 Medal for the Victory over Germany Signature of the awardee: [signed] I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature): Officer of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Captain [signed] /Grekhov/ February 5, 1955

Its a recommendation for an Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class. The recommendation could have been down?graded to a Red Star by senior officers. Does the name at the top of the document match the name in the Order booklet? If you'd like it translating for a fair price, id contact "Ferdinand" on here, his work speaks for itself! Tom

I went hunting for stuff in an Antique shop the other day, after an hour of rooting round to find nothing but a couple of tourist znak, i asked the guy "have you got anything Soviet hidden about?" "Oh yes" he said, "come with me!" I followed him over to a dusty wooden cupboard, he reached in and i saw him pulling out 2 riker cases and i started getting excited. "Here you go" he said, and my face fell. 2 riker cases with 6 American medals in. No wonder that place is always empty. Maybe i'll go and sell him a couple of Ikea mugs and tell him they're wedgewood?

Sure is my man

The doc was also signed by Valentin Borisovich Tregubov, chief of the school. I have found a website dedicated to the school, there is posting from a gentleman saying he served with a "Nazarenko" there between 1989 and 1991. Small world . Bang the address in Google translate http://www.dvzrku.dp.ua/ru/home/index.html Tom

Oh and the badge is to Lieutenant Colonel Vitaliy Fedorovich Nazarenko if you'd not already translated it .

Cool beans Eric! Nice to see you're still in the game . Tom

Thanks Guys Auke is indeed the man when it comes to research! Oh and Normsky, i framed that Bomber CSM i got, i think it looks pretty sweet. I have the exact frame saved for a certain other award too! http://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2013/post-15337-0-97344300-1365529124.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2013/post-15337-0-84763500-1365529172.jpghttp://gmic.co.uk/uploads/monthly_04_2013/post-15337-0-44871600-1365529208.jpg Tom