Alfred

nice medal, which front and when was it awarded? regards Andreas

Great Display Brendon, regards Andreas

reverse

and the awards

Thanks Rick, for your translation! Yes, naturally it is a military merit medal. Yesterday I was to tired to post pictures of the medal. I will do this this evening. regards Andreas

and the citation for the bravery medal part 3

and the citation for the bravery medal part 2

and the citation for the bravery medal part 1

and the backside with the award entries.

and part 2 of the award card

and the award card part 1

inside the award book

A little bravery medal group. Bravery medal s/n: 275.195 Medal for the Defence of Stalingrad Medal for the Victory over Germany to Vasilenko; Jakow, Sidorowitsch

Confirmed, he got the citation and Gregory is in the process of translating the citation. In one or two weeks it is ready. regards Andreas

To me the suspension number 43/44 and the backplate from number 56 looks a little bit strange. regards Andreas

great, I hope you got a discount. regards Andreas

would be a great award for an uniform collector to decorate uniforms

To my opinion a fake !

Miguel, I mean that the group is most likely complete. The group consits only of this Order of Glory, if there is not a second award book. regards Andreas

I would take the one with booklet.The chance is high, that this is a complete group. regards Andreas

Hi together, I looked through my suspensions and found 5 different producer / factory marks on the suspensions. Has anybody an idea who / which factory produced this suspensions? As the marks are to small for my digi cam I painted them. best regards and thanks Andreas

Hi Alex, even you have the name sometimes it happens that there are no research results. I also have a whole documented group with all documents and there were no research results. Maybe the personel file is lost or the reseacher have no access to the documents (e.g. the soldier worked for the NKVD) There are many reasons for no research results. Dave wrote to this topic: "There are a multitude of reasons an award might be unresearchable:1. It could be a labor award. Wait, you say, Red Banners aren't labor awards! Well, I had one to a civilian film producer who made military-themed films PLUS his Red Star... both were unresearchable.2. It could be a Navy award. These are STILL finicky, I'm shooting at a 50% research rate still.3. It could be a "state security" award - be that GRU, KGB, etc. NKVD and Smersh awards are normally researchable. GRU and KGB ones aren't.4. The documentation could have been lost or destroyed during the War. Remember, while many of the early awards were being handed out, there units were being destroyed. I'd venture to guess it was the rare administrative officer who would risk his life to break out of an encirclement to deliver award citations to the chain of command! Usually that stuff was either burned/destroyed/captured and no longer exists.5. The citation could be classified and the archivist might not have access to it. 6. If it's a late award, the citation might have stayed with the personnel record of the recipient, and at the end of the USSR, never forwarded to Padolsk for their archives.7. If the award was pre-June 1941, your chances of getting the citation drop dramatically. The award card might be possible, but I have yet to see a pre-June 1941 citation. Thus, if you have an unresearchable award, there are quite a few reasons why the research might not come back. There's no "single" reason for an award to be unresearchable, but really many different possibilities - the 7 I listed above are only the most common.Hope that helpsDave" regards Andreas

Thus it is necessary to consider, that very much the most part of the Soviet awards on sale at the western auctions are fakes. At the Russian forums it is often possible to meet discussions of the western auctions and unfortunately even large auctions do not hesitate to sell a forgery. Yes Roman, sadly many dealer sell knowingly fakes to make a quick bug. regards Andreas

Great group regards Andreas

Miguel, please post a better picture of the entries in the award book. In some cases the first entries are correct and some forger ad a few more awards to make the group more valuable. All is possible. The date 1995 for the first entry Order of Glory III 702.391 seems to be most likely possible. The military merit medal is from 1947 and the Bravery medal from 1944/1945. Sometimes the soldier had two award books and the awards were reunite in one book. Sometimes (rare) the soldier add the awards himself in one book. If you are interested in research, research the Order of Glory 3rd class with it?s serial number. regards Andreas