Christophe

He... Ho...!!!! Anyone ? Maybe a clue from Jim ? Ch.

BTW, would be nice to see a pic of the entire page... Ch.

Yes, as far as I can see, seems right... Cheers. Ch.

Here is your man... Have a look at his orders (including the Suvorov 3rd Class). My russian is not good enough to help more... Cheers. Ch.

I have no idea who she might be... Others, anyone ? Cheers. Ch.

I fully support all that has been said. And, specifically your last sentence, Ed. Ch.

Hi Jim, Very interesting one. it is the first time I see one of these!!! It seems very well conservated; is the paint war time ? Cheers. Ch.

Hi Gordon, That's a nice and interesting thread you initiated there. I don't know if all countries along the Danube have such medals, but I know some in Germany are interesting too. Well done thread!!! Thanks. Cheers. Ch.

Hi Bryan, These are fantastic pics!!! (and nice bar too...). Cheers. Ch.

You believe...? I just fully use the 24 hours we all have a day... Ch.

Some other stats : Here are the ones who have been Number 1 in terms of victories since the beginning of the quiz. This indicates : * Name - (Victory N? who brought the status of N?1) - Period of time being N?1 - Number of days being N?1 Here is an example : * Dave (Navy FCO) - 1 - 01.11.05 / 04.12.05 - 34 days. Means : * Dave has been N?1 with his 1st victory. He has been N?1 from 01.11.05 to 04.12.05, during 34 days. Here are the results : * Dave (Navy FCO) - 1 - 01.11.05 / 04.12.05 - 34 days. * Christophe - 2 - 04.12.05 / 12.02.06 - 70 days. * Bryan (Soviet) - 4 - 12.02.06 / 08.09.06 - 215 days. * Christophe - 6 - 08.09.06 / 30.11.06 - 84 days. * Bryan (Soviet) - 8 - 30.11.06 / 03.03.07 - 94 days. * Christophe - 10 - 03.03.07 / 12.03.07 - 10 days. * Christian (Zulus) - 11 - 12.03.07 / ... - More than 188 days. In adding all these results, this gives as a grand total : * Bryan (Soviet) - 309 days. * Christian (Zulus) - 188+ days. * Christophe - 164 days. * Dave (Navy FCO) - 34 days. Great job from all!!! ... and a really outstanding performance from Christian, who is on his way for beating all records... Cheers. Ch.

Here is an updated version of the Summary. Summary #3 Here are all the topics dealt through our questions and answers of this little Quiz. Are shown below : * Subject / question dealt - Number of the post where has been asked the question. Awards / Orders & Medals * GDR - Title Hero fo the GDR - #153 * GDR - Order of Karl Marx - #359 * India - Ashoka Chakra awarded to Soviet citizens - #131 * Mongolia - Medal Cosmonaut of the MPR - #110 & #601 * Russia - Order of Merit for the Country - #441 * SSR Georgia - Order of Red Banner of Labour - #222 * USSR - Honorary Revolutionary Weapons and early awards of the RSFSR - #874 & #1693 * USSR - Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the RSFSR - #1618 * USSR - Order of Glory - #1582 * USSR - Order of Lenin - #88 * USSR - Order of Stalin - #243 & #1228 * USSR - Order of Suvorov - #1341 * USSR - Orders with Serial Number 001 - #585 & #1366 * USSR - Medal for Bravery - #170 * USSR - Medals for Defense / Capture / Liberation - #25 * USSR - Medal 800 Years of Moscow - #1697 * USSR - Krupskaya Medal of Merit in Teaching and Education - #625 Personalities (Awards) * France - Marcel Lef?vre's awards - #186 * Mongolia - S?khbaatar, Dandzan & Choibalsan - #1242 * USSR - Vasily Blyukhner - #1366 * USSR - Vice-Admiral Georgi Kholostyakov - #1341, #1345 & #1744 * USSR - Marshal of Aviation Vladimir Sudets - #1464 * USSR - Marshal Georgi Zhukov's awards - #2 & #1366 * USSR - Highest ranking Soviet officer to receive a Partisan medal - #1522 * USSR - Recipients #1 of some of the USSR major orders - #585 & #1366 * USSR - Recipients of several classes of major awards of GPW - #1388 Personalities (Identification) * Austria - Commander Alexander L?hr - #1131 * China - Li Zensheng - #1279 * Egypt - Hakim Abdel Amer - #278 * Germany - Ernst Reuter - #1460 * Germany - Klara Zetkin - #30 * India - Subadar Birta Sing Gurung - #290 * Poland - Michał Rola-Żymierski - #1435 * Romania - Henri Coanda - #1119 * Romania - Maj-General Mihail Lascar - #928 * Romania - Hermann Oberth - #1059 * Russia - Valery Gergiev - #352 * Russia - Pyotr Nesterov - #854 * Russia - Admiral Fedor Ushakov - #81 * UK - Winston Churchill - #780 * UK - Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill - #329 * USA - Henry Morgenthau Jr - #932 * USSR - Sultan Amet-Khan - #574 * USSR - General Aleksei Antonov - #1477 * USSR - Commander Vasili Arkhipow - #1065 * USSR - Georgiy Baidukov - #1004 * USSR - Snr-Lieutenant Vicktor Belenko - #1095 * USSR - Lavrentyi Beria - #944 * USSR - Alexander Buchin - #426 * USSR - Marshal Semyon Budyonny - #743 * USSR - General Vassily Chuikov - #20 * USSR - Yevgeni Dolmatovski - #1271 * USSR - Vasily Grosman - #1266 * USSR - Lt-General Kuzma Gurov - #718 * USSR - Lt-General Ignatii Karpezo - #236 * USSR - Mikhail Katukov - #1396 * USSR - Alexandr Kollontai - #376 * USSR - Marshal Ivan Konev - #66 * USSR - Nikita Khrushchev & friends - #623 * USSR - General Yakov Kreiser - #695 * USSR - Nadezhda Krupskaya - #1128 * USSR - Igor Kurchatov - #979 * USSR - Lenin, Trosky and Stalin - #920 * USSR - Nikolay Masalov - #504 * USSR - Pyotr Masherov - #752 * USSR - Vsevolod Merkulov - #252 * USSR - Sergey Mikhalkov & family - #878 * USSR - Maria Oktiabrskaia - #1141 * USSR - Lieutenant Os'kin - #1196 * USSR - Lyudmila Pavlichenko - #1050 * USSR - Zina Portnova - #490 * USSR - Nina Potsova - #302 * USSR - Alla Pugachova - #267 * USSR - General Aleksandr Rodimtsev - #735 * USSR - Dmitry Rogachev - #1467 * USSR - General Isaac Salzmann - #533 * USSR - Svetlana Savitskaya - #1046 * USSR - Professor Otto Schmidt - #564 * USSR - Ivan Serov - #1441 * USSR - Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov - #772 * USSR - Georgi Shpagin - #249 * USSR - Konstantin Simonov - #1307 * USSR - Igor Spassky - #1734 * USSR - Maj-General Nikolai Stakhanov - #986 * USSR - Marshal Joseph Stalin - #732 & #1200 * USSR - Fedor Tokarev - #1303 * USSR - General Matvei Vainrub - #708 * USSR - Andrei Zhdanov - #1455 * Yugoslavia - General Milan Nedic - #1418 * Yugoslavia - General Konstantin Popovic - #671 * Yugoslavia - Marshal Josip Tito - #364, #603 & #1226 Historical events * 1942 - Last defender of Brest Fortress - #847 * 1942 - Operation Uranus - #955 * 1943 - Battle of Neretva - #1411 * 1945 - Capture of Vienna - #1345 * 1967 - Incident submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol - #1703 * 1969 - Czechoslovakia Hockey Riots - #515 * 1979 - Visit of French President in Berlin - #891 Architecture / sites * Baku - Monument to Kirov - #386 * Berlin - Check Point Charlie - #164 * Berlin - First Soviet Parade Tribune - #1327 * Berlin - Palast der Republik, Honecker's office - #1313 * Minsk - Monument to Victory - #618 * Moscow - Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War - #518 & #648 * Moscow - Fountain of the Friendship of Nations - #1233 * Moscow - State Kremlin Palace - #522 * Moscow - VDNKh Exhibition Center - #1536 * New York - USSR Pavilion at the 1939 International Exhibition - #205 * Prag - Monument to Stalin - #537 * St Petersburg - Statue of Lenin - #46 * Stalingrad - Fountain "Playing Kids" - #230 * Stalingrad - Great Patriotic War Memorial - #60 & #995 * Sutjeska - Tjeniste Monument to Battle of Sutjeska - #665 * Vienna - Monument to the Red Army - #553 * Zhukovski - Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) - #1636 Aircraft, weapons, military equiment... * Cruiser Lazar Kaganovich - #1502 * IAR-95 "Spey" fighter - #955 * KV-1 tank - #826 * Mig 15 - #896 * Obyekt 279 tank - #940 * Sergei Mironovich Kirov tank - #1105 * TB-3 & I-16 aircraft - #1035 * Tupolev 144 - #1204 Other topics * BARTCC (Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center) - #1498 * Dogs & Military Leaders of WW2 - #648 * Gagarin's car - #460 * GAZ - Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod - #1568 * Iran, Serbia, Venezuela & International Community - #915 * Ministers of War of the USSR - #1585 * Operation Solo - #804 * Psychotronic weapons - #1082 * Red Army's ranks (Senior Marshal of Communications Troops &Senior Marshal of Engineering Troops) - #581 * Soviet Forces in East Germany - #1489 & #1592 * Soviet defectors - #1165 & #1614 * SOXMIS (Soviet Mission in West-Germany) - #902 * Fyodor Vidayev + Kursk submarines - #1285 * "The Watch That Went To Moscow" - #309 Ch.

Congratulations Jim, You're the winner!!! You will find more about Vice-Admiral Georgi Kholostyakov in the posts #1341 & #1345 of the Quiz. Here is the first page of the booklet : Jim, your turn, now!!!! Cheers. Ch. Pic : Sergey Shishkov & Mikail Muzalevsky - Orders and Medals of the USSR - Vol 1. 1996

Portrait #17 Close-up pic #2 Ch. Pic : ? Christophe ? ChR Collection

Portrait #17 Close-up pic. Ch. Pic : ? Christophe ? ChR Collection

Portrait #17 A Hero of Russia... with a nice Nevsky. Ch. Pic : ? Christophe ? ChR Collection

Question #145 It will be an easy one for you, experts, as I am not inspired today... Simple question : To whom belongs this awards booklet ? Good hunt and good luck. Cheers. Ch.

I would say, at least a few days. And to be adapted regarding the situation. It would not be the same if the original poster of the question connects himself to the Forum, but does not provide the answer... or if he is away without connecting himself at all... The recommandation is to let enough time (very scientific, isn't it... ) to the original poster to come back with his answer... Cheers. Ch.

Time for a few stats : This small game has now been launched more than 22 months ago now (on 1 Nov. 2005), and since : * 144 questions asked, * with 1,740 answers, * This quiz has been viewed more than 18,500 times. * 36 Members of the Forum played, and 26 correctly answered at least 1 question : Nb of good answers : * 28 : Christian (Zulus) * 27 : Christophe * 11 : Bryan (Soviet) * 8 : Franck (Knarf) and Simon (Red Threat) * 7 : Jim (JimZ) * 6 : Auke (Ferdinand) and Belaruski * 5 : Carol I and Ed (Haynes). * 4 : Wild Card. * 3 : Andreas (Alfred), Ivan (Piramida) and Kim (Kimj). * 2 : Chuck (in Oregon), Gerd (Becker), Jan (vatjan) and Order of Victory. * 1 : Dan (Hauptman), Darrell, Daredevil, Dave (Navy FCO), Dudeman, Filip (Drugo), Rick (Stogieman) and Steen (Ammentorp). This is a great achievement. Thanks to all for your participation. Now, let's continue to have fun with the 145th question... Mine!!!

Hi Christian, I agree. It is a good rule (and the rule) to wait for the confirmation of the good answer before posting a new question. It is, as said Jim, "good manners", and it gives more lisibility to the all thread. And, who knows, maybe the answer is not the right one.... So, let's be patient... But, of course, if the confirmation of the answer would become too long to appear, it is time to launch a new challenge. Cheers. Ch.

Hi Christian, An easy one for me, as I met him several times, and we had numerous occasions to drink a number of shots of vodka together... He is Igor Spassky, Igor Dmitrievich Spassky (Russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Спасский, born August 2, 1926). 1) What had been my job in the CCCP? Igor Spassky is a Russian (and former Soviet) scientist, engineer and entrepreneur, General Designer of nearly 200 Soviet and Russian nuclear submarines, and the head of the Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin. 2) Please list ALL my CCCP titles, orders & prizes. He has been awarded the Lenin Prize (1965), USSR State Prize (1983), became a Hero of Socialist Labor (1978), received two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour. We can add the Russian Orthodox Church awarded Spassky the Order of Saint Prince Daniila of Moscow. 3) I played an important role in an US-movie - which movie? Kursk 4) I wrote a well know book - which book? Igor Spassky - Five Colors of Time . Hope this is OK.... Cheers. Ch.

Hi Jim, This seems a good one!!!!! Christian in investigating all the soviet submarines ... and we have unfiortunately no better option to propose... Let's see if Christian (or others - Where are you, BTW ?) will solve the mystery... Cheers. Ch.

Let's check it in the news of tomorrow orthe coming days. The stage in the middle of the Red Square - in fact, close to St Basil - looked like a concert stage... Ch.

Came back from Moscow yesterday night. In fact, most of these posters have already been taken of. In the middle of the Red Square, they are preparing an enormous stage, but no one has been able to explain me what for... Close to the Red Square, where the Hotel Moskwa stood (will stay) was yesterday a celebration of Armenia, with a show and stands. More a commercial party than anything else. Ch.

Thanks for the comments. Inside the MAKS Airshow was a stand dedicated to Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, with a small exhibition. This exhibition (mainly photographs) celebrated the 95 years of the birth of Aleksandr Pokryshkin. Ch.