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Order reverse. Serial number is 8577.

Order obverse:

award card reverse:

Award card:

Citation reverse:

I'm posting some recent research returns. First is an OG 2. class:

Any update on this? Did anyone received any research documentation in the last month? I'm waiting for some 10 research requests and I'm afraid I'm vaiting in vain...

Citation back:

Detailed citation:

Citation front:

Sure. Here they are.

Thanks Rick for all your help. A few medals were probably added to this group, but I got the group for a very low price so there's no harm done.

About the stamps, I spent 3 hours making this display and putting the medals and docs into the frame, so I'm not very enthusiastic about dismanteling the frame

How bad do you want to see the stamps?

Every living WW2 veteran would have had the 25th Victory jubilee badge from the Ministry of Defense, and the 1968 Armed Forces Jubilee.

The 100th Lenin had to be earned, so that one is questionable but I'd keep those three with the group.

The 1948, 1958, and Veteran of the Armed Forces could not have been his. No big deal with common medals.

Let's see what clues we can get about his life from the stamps on the documents you do have.

Undocumented are:

25 years victory badge

Armed forces veteran

30., 40., 50. years of the armed forces

100 years Lenin medal

I guess some of these medals are added to the group? To which of these medals would he be entitled to?

I'll check. Give me a few moments please.

I'm not really sure about this eather. It's written on the award card that he was in the red army from 43 untill november 45. So that would explain why there's no long service awards. But I'm not sure why there's a veteran's medal and some others. Some of these medals are undocumented so it is possible that they were just added to the group, for some sick reason.

What is your opinion about this?

The pic of the group. I like it very much. It's a nice veteran's group.

I got this group a few weeks back and the research is also allready finished (this was fast ). It's a rather big group with a bunch of low end decorations, most of them documented. I was wondering who won all these decorations. Well this is what came back:

Documents pertaining to Combat Service Medal #2.550.800

1. Award card

2. Name and Patrionymic: Sergei Fedorovich

3. Rank: Senior Lieutenant

4. Sex: Male

5. Birthyear: 1919

6. Birthplace: Kostroma Oblast, Kologrivskii Region, village of Shablovo Burdovskii (?)

7. Party Membership: n/a

8. Education: upper-level

9. Nationality: Russian

10. Service in the Red Army: June 1943 through November 1945

11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Evacuation Hospital 1191, Orderly

12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Kologrivskaya Hospital, Kostroma Oblast - doctor

13. Home of Record: Kologriv, Kostoma Oblast, Riverwalk Way Bldg #11

14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder

Combat Service Medal #2.550.800 1 Belorussian Front dated 3.6.45

Verified 28 March 46

2. Award Citation

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Udalov, Sergei Fedorovich

2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Medical Service

3. Duty position: Orderly ? Evacuation Hospital #1191

5. Nationality: Russian

6. Time in the Red Army: since July 1943

7. Party membership: n/a

8. Participation in combat: Central, Belorussian, and 1 Belorussian Fronts

9. Wounds or contusions: n/a

10. Earlier Awards: n/a

11. Inducted by: Omsk Municipal Military Commissariat

12. Home of record: Kalogriv, Kostroma Oblast, Riverwalk Way #11 ? father: Udalov, Fedor Yakovlvich

Medical Services Senior Lieutenant Sergei Fedorovich Udalov has worked in EvacHospital #1191 since March 1944 as an orderly in the medical section. He has served in the Red Army since July 1943. During his time at the hospital, udalov has proven himself an effective, disciplined, and maturing doctor. Despite his relatively limited training time, Udalov has constantly and systematically perfected his knowledge of medical skills ? quickly learning surgical procedures and how to overcome surgical difficulties. In the last six months he has conducted almost one hundred operations of various types. During the same period he has conduced as many as one hundred and fifty blood transfusions. He continuously participates in cadre training sessions. During the course of 1944 he personally qualified nine nurses.

He has earned the respect of the wounded and hospital personnel.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Chief of EvacHospital #1191, Medical Services Major Apinyan on 3 MAR 1945

Recommended downgrade to Combat Service Medal, Chief of Medical Evacuation Point #14, Medical Services Colonel Knyazev on 8 APR 45

Recommended Order of the Red Star by Chief of Surgeons, 1 Belorussian Front, General-Major of Medical Services Barabanov on (?) APR 45

I would say, that the end of soviet collecting in very near for me. I just can't keep up anymore, the prices are insane. There was arround 100% do 200% rise of prices of even common stuff in just one year. I do not even want to lose words about rare stuff. Common Red banners were 150$ just one year back, now they are 350$. Next year 700$ perhaps? Where and when will this stop?

The screwplate is hovewer not original to the medal. It should be the smaller type. It is very possible that the original owner changed them with the more popular larger soviet type.

Nice one. Do the numbers on the doc&order match?

I think they are ultra rare. I haven't seen any for sale and I'm in the field for about 7 years.

Is it rare to find documented partisan stars?

And here's another citaton for the fighting on Sapun mountain in may 1944:

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13432

Here's another pic of the cross, posted above, taken on daylight. I think it looks a lot better this way.

Thanks, this clears things up. A shame that the red star is missing. I'm sure he must have done something bold to get the red star in the hell around Novorossisk.

318th Mountain (there's a combination for -- alpine marines!) Division was around Novorossisk in September 1943 and took part in the amphibious landings at Kerch in November, so there was probably a mixture of personnel in that awful fighting.

He was out in the open under enemy fire and at direct risk to his life, which are what the Valour Medal was given for.

Maybe he got the CSM because he was not directly in contact with the enemy?

Can anyone explain how is it possible that he got the red star in the same time from a different unit?