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Interestingly, he was awarded all 3 medals in a course of 10 days. The first BM on 11 March. The two others are on 19 March 1945. And the two last ones seem to be for the same feat on 03 March 1945. One is downgrade from OGIII. They are awarded by two different decrees, but on the same day. And it seems PETROV's name came into both decrees.

Hello, I think this is the first version (whole bronze) used in the period 1866 - 1882 (later it was made of silver). The Academy was established during Aleksander II reign.

Hello, Andreas! I sent you a PM about the painting.

Beautiful!

Award register card for KNIAZEV

Respect!

Thank you for sharing! His middle name is AmankuLovich, i.e. АманкуЛович The citation is not available online. There are only single citations from 21st Rifle Brigade of the NKVD available online. Research options are limited, but not zero.

Sure there is info available on 21th. But it would be nice to see "the face".

Everything is perfectly readable! Bill has covered almost all of it. "BB" stands indeed for Internal Troops. But "УО" stands for "Украинскй Округ", i.e. Ukrainian District. The 21 detached Rifle Brigade VV NKVD was disbanded in November 1945 while being located in Ukraine.

It is just an asymmetrical intelligence strategy. The amount of resources used in CIA to figure it all out is eating 3,14% of their budget. And they are still lagging...

Nice! Thank you for sharing!!! What technique is that? Acryl? Mixed? On the Soviet theme picture I can say that the background you chose must be vertical. There is no way any ojects could have stayed on it

I am in no way an expert. Never held them myself. Just sharing thoughts. Another variation is like this one. Look for the lot 329 (Лот 326): https://numismat.ru/au.shtml?au=104&per=0&descr=&material=0&nominal=0&lottype=0&ordername=1&orderdirection=ASC&num=20&&page=10

Hello, Looks quite crude, doesn't it? Check out the link http://www.auction-imperia.ru/wdate.php?t=offline&i=5227

maybe this also can be useful: http://www.naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-18-HMS_Endeavour.htm See the ship logs down the page!

Wow! That is a reasonable price! If only I was not distracted by holidays.

And here is my take on translating the citation for St. Georges cross. I wonder if other reputable Russain speaking members will correct me, as some of this military slang takes some knowledge to translate. - 809616 - surname: LOOV ; name: MAGOMET ; middlename: GIREY ; Cherkess cavalry regiment, a horseman. For distinguishing himself in the engagement on 31 May 1916 during mounted attack on village OKNO, when during the handfight he spoted his platoon officer and two horsemen being encircled by the enemy, he rushed them and killed them all with sabre, and thus saved his officers live.

Hej, thanks for the info! This one, if not a misspelling, is quite peculiar! "last 3 OG III issued on 31.12.1945 - 517.643, 517.644, 82.234" One more argument, that relating to serial numbers for finding period of issue has to be taken with a grain of salt.

Well done!

Mention of Sergeant Max Thompson in the award decree signed by KALININ on 13 June 1945. The original decoration order for Max Thompson was issued by the 4th Guards Army on 20 May 1945.

Another cavalier of US Legion of Merits order, degree Commander, was Soviet Army Lt. General Vladimir Stepanovich KUZNETSOV (1898-1979). He was a commander of the 40 Rifle Corps. Unfortunately I couldn't locate his portrait with his US decoration on... But I have something interesting too. The memorandum sent from HQ of US XIII Corps to their Soviet counterparts explaining the award procedure and information request to prepare citations for the Soviet Army personnel from soviet 40 Rifle Corps (17 may 1945). Prior to this on 16 May, Lt.Gen. KUZNETSOV was to diner with the commander of 102d Rifle Division Mj.Gen Frank. A. Keating.

The text on the postcards: "Heroic deed by Garros. Zeppelin destruction." "War in the air. Destruction of a German zeppelin by a Russian airplane." So the first postcard refers to specific person - French pilot Roland Garros, who did NOT perform any aerial ramming attacks during his carrier. Similarly, I don't know of any aerial ramming attacks on a zepellin by a Russian aviator in WWI. There are two known Russian pilots who did Nesterov (died) and Kazakov (survived), but they both attacked another airplane. So this brings me to the point: These postcards do NOT depict an aerial ramming attack. I have to say I am surprised myself, as that is kind of how they look like!

The first one is the action by French ppilot Roland Garros. The second is unrelated I think.

Looking good! Do you have the names on the veteran names for the orders 50888 and 172198 ?

Clever!!! Nice presentation. Are these normal frames, which were remade into shadow boxes?