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Hello all, Please, meet petty officer 1st class POKSIKAN Pavel Kalinovich 1918 with 287 reported sniper kills count. Born in 1918 in the village of Ryaska (Nekhvoroshchansky district of the Poltava region of Ukraine). From 1938 in the ranks of the Navy, served as an electrician on a boat. From June 22, 1941 on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Fought in the Leningrad direction. From December 1941 served as an observer of an artillery battery. Mastered the sniper skills studying with the famous sniper PCHELINTSEV, who toured USA together with PAVLICHENKO in 1942-1943. On 28.02.1942, POSIKAN killed his first enemy as a sniper. Drawing of POSIKAN by artist NEPRINTSEV Y.M. (1909–1996) 07.06.1942, POSIKAN was recommended for the Order of the Red Star (personal sniper score of 52 is mentioned). On the award sheet for the Red Star there is a pencil mark "Repeated". Apparently, the paperwork was slow, and the award wasn't approved before POSIKAN was nominated for the Order of the Red Banner again on 12.08.1942. On 12.08.1942, the commander of the electricians' squad of the 597th battery of the 301st Separate Artillery Division (Leningrad Naval Base of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, Leningrad Front), petty officer 1st class P.K. POSIKAN was nominated by the unit command for the award of the Order of the Red Banner (personal sniper score 170), but was awarded the Order of Lenin by order of the Commander of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet No. 58 dated September 3, 1942. Soon POSIKAN received a shrapnel wound and was treated in a hospital. On 12.11.1942, the sniper of the 597th battery of the 301st OAD of the Baltic Fleet, petty officer 1st class P.K. POSIKAN, was nominated by the unit command for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for elimination of 244 Fascists and training of 6 freshman snipers (one of them was sniper BOGDANOV Ivan Vasilyevich 1920), who all together eliminated 447 enemy troops. The HSU nomination was approved by the commander of the Baltic Fleet, Vice-Admiral TRIBUTS. But... The famous sniper did not receive any award for these exploits. The reason is unclear. On the award sheet there is a pencil mark "denied see outgoing document 88972s". In the spring of 1943, POSIKAN was seriously wounded in the leg by a shell fragment (the bone was shattered), and was treated in the hospital for a long time. According to available information, the final result of the combat work of sniper P.K. POSIKAN is 287 eliminated enemies (in some sources his surname was written differently "PASIKAN", "PASEKAN", etc). In his award booklet (B Nº142942) issued on 10/29/1947 the name PASIKAN Pavel Kalinovich is recorded. The wounds led to the 2nd group of disability and an early disability pension as a war veteran on 18.01.1945 (the surname is recorded as POSIKAN). A wealth of information is available on the veteran, like war time newspaper articles, some of his personal items are in the Leningrad blockade museum. Snipers HSU ANTONOV (360 kills) and POSIKAN (287 kills). Interview with POSIKAN in the hospital (note the trendy moustache). Thank you SovietOrders.com for the possibility to present this remarkable award.

It is pleasant to see an all original medal in good condition, but yet with traces of passed time. I wonder, he got the lowest medal at that stage of the war, when the wards were normally issued much more liberally to mark upcoming victory. Recommended to OPW2, but got it dropped all the way to FCM...

Enlisted of the Wojsko Polskie STERECKI Franciszek son of Mieczysław. Koszalin (military commissariat of issue). This award is from 1946. If he didn't get other awards, it is not likely to find him on Pamyat-Naroda...

Hello, Yes, the award number can be researched itself to find name. But if you think it belonged to you grand-dad, then you have full information on him like full name and birth year and place. So, you can check the Pamyat-Naroda.ru Or else share his full name and birth year if you need assistance.

is the thickness 2.9-3.0 mm ? Also, it is not an exclusive sign as it can be 50/50, but if you see concentric circles on the on he reverse, these are definitive sign of authenticity. But not all authentic medals in that range have those.

As for me, it is 50/50, but maybe someone else can speak up.

The Distinguished Labour Medal is definitely bad... For the FCM, I am more open... though the engraving stile is not quite matching the range, according to my limited knowledge. But there is a chance the medal is good. Would it be possible to make a sharp photo of FCM reverse but under an angle (not straight down)?

For "Crossing from the Tamtsak-Bulak (Mongolian Peoples republic), across the Greater Hingan mountain range, across whole Manchuria until the mountains of Port Artur." (quote from one of the HQ officers of 39 Army). And the face of Lt. ULYANOV Vladimir Leontievich 1926.

The decree 18 August 1936 on bestowal of the of commanders, political workers, engineers, technicians and military doctors of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. For outstanding achievements in combat, political and technical training of military units...

I am glad then for you having such nice early item and with an interesting personal story behind! Thank you Konstantin for pointing at the relevant forum!

Greetings! I don't think I have ever seen such engraving style on these OBH from 1936. I have a bad feeling about it...

One reason (among others) for some veterans getting two jubilee 1985 awards, was the fact, that people could be recommended for those by different organisations: work place, veteran organisation, local Communist party offices. This lead to double awards in a many cases. Taht is apart from the general disorganisation.

"15 November 1939" It is not visible that great, but it is the only option to fit to a Serbian word for a month name. "in Belgrad" - place of bestowal.

He was born in 1924 and would be 84 in 2009. Quite possible... According to the 2010 census in the Russian Federation, there were ~50.000 men born in 1924. IT would be very similar for Belorussia, I think, where the veteran got his 65 year jubilee medal.

Marcel posted the personality, who is likely the recipient of those medals. but it is not 100% certain. Good: there is only one person with the same full name and officer rank. On the down side, we don’t know his birth year. Meaning, it could be a younger man, who became an officer after the war graduating from a military school. Such man possibly didn’t get any awards during the war, hence would be “invisible” in the online database. Farkas, could you post the award booklets open so that it can be read. Also, there are two booklets for 40 years of Victory medal.