SovPha

Hi, John, Family first. Please take care of yourself and your family. I highly appreciate your words. I love this forum and I am glad that I finally joined it (big thanks to @Egorka). This forum feels more like a large family?. I will do my best to help you all as much as possible. Best regards, Andrej

Thank you very much for the confirmation. Have a great weekend and stay safe.

I had no contact at all to Audrey, but its always sad to loose a great historian. RIP Audrey.

Here is a new addition to my guard's badge collection. A rare classical (rounded), 45x37mm piece. The nut includes the following writing: 1. НКПС "Народный Комиссариат Путей Сообщения" - People's Commissariat of Railways 2. ШМЗ "Штамповочный Механический Завод" - Stamping Mechanical Plant

Here I have another nice example of a Grunwald badge. The nut shows the maker "Tłocznia Caritasu -Warszawa" Caritasu pressing plant - Warsaw.

Thanks. One of my friends is working at the archives.

The sound (flip the coin) and one chemical which can be used on the surface. It got this blueish/greenish color.

Just wanted to share this beautiful unresearched ORS # 483587 (1st half of 1944). The enamel is in perfect condition and the screw is made of silver. Research is in progress. Ill let you all know once I have more information on this ORS.

I really don't understand this kind of people. Thank you very much. I agree with you.

Hello, everybody! I was able to save this bar. The person who sold me the bar was the same person who melted the Lenin, Red Banner, Medal "For Distinction in Guarding...", and the Medal "For Battle Merit". I felt a huge pain in my chest after knowing what happened to the awards. Currently, I am trying to find out who the owner is. This is how greed is destroying history. 1. Order of Lenin, 2. Order of the Red Banner 3. Medal "For Battle Merit" 4. Medal "For Distinction in Guarding the State Border of the USSR" 5. Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" 6. Medal "For the Victory over Japan" 7. Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" 8. Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

I was informed that my PAB is referred to as a " scooped out flat back", minus the scoop of a unknown maker.

Hello, everybody, I need some help to identify the maker of this PAB. Best regards, SovPha

@OvBacon, Cheers.

A nice coloured photograph of a Guards Senior Sergeant. Reverse: During my service at the 100th (Т.Ч.К.О.К.П.) T.Ch.K.O.K.P - 1949. Thank you for your suggestion, @Egorka. Т/T - Tank Ч/Ch - Name of the city/place? К/K - Red Banner О/O - Order К/K - Kutusov П/P - Regiment Best regards, SovPha

Your welcome ?. I wish you a great weekend. P.S. I used two have two of this kind of badges with the docs in my collection.

This badge is from 1957 and was released to mark the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Centenary of Sorority which was founded in 1857.

@CanCol, Thank you very much for recommending me the book?.

Thank you. I have a southern cavalier medal bar (Ushakov, Odessa, Sevastopol, Caucasus, and OG 3rd class + docs). I will post them in the near future.

I got several photographs in which service members wear ribbons/medals like that. I need to find one photograph from my collection, in which a sapper is wearing his 3/4 destroyed Order of the Red Star.

Hello GMIC members, I just came across this Russian website, which digitized wartime letters. Currently they have 492.691 free accessible wartime letters (1941 - 1945). Its only in Russian but Google translate does a great job. https://pismapobedy.ru/ I wish everybody a great Monday. Best regards, SovPha

This is the best website I've ever seen dedicated to war time letters https://pismapobedy.ru/.

A nice war time letter from a soldier to his parents / June 9th, 1944. The letter is written in Ukrainian.

This was my first medalbar plus ring which I purchased many many moons ago. Well, unfortunately, my dog ate the award documents, Militärpass, and couple photographs belonging to this lot from a German soldier (Infantry Regiment) from Würzburg - Unterfranken/Bavaria.

Thank you. An estimated 14,000 to 16,000 medals of Ushakov were awarded from its creation in 1944 to the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union. It will be kinda hard to find him. Currently I have some other medals which are researched and ready to be posted here.

Unfortunately, I don't have any photographs of Yugoslavs and Soviets in my collection yet).