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And the interior page spread.

With certificates (I pick one at random).

Also three of those cute little All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements (?VDNKh?) Medals.

The second spread of pages.

First spread of pages.

And the order booklet (1967) for both.

With a nice photo inside the front cover.

8 April 1971. Small certificate only. Large certificate not included.

The hero's small certificate to Lidias Vasilovna Shapovalona.

Order of Lenin, type 6, var. 1 #310395

Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" (Hero of Socialist Labor), Type 2, Var. 3 #15890

Lidias Vasilovna Shapovalona Group of 2 decorations, 29 various documents, 3 agricultural exhibition medals and a Socialist Competition winner?s badge. To a female collective farmer, a dairymaid.

Thanks, Rick. Curiouser and curiouser, as the old lady said.

Research is hoped for, some day, some way, . . . ???

Award page: Order of Lenin - 17231 Awarded - 11 November 1944

Name Page: Evdokiia Nikifornova Kalinina

Closeup: I can only hope that this awe-inspiring lady -- unlike her comrade-sister in Stalinist socialist progress Maria Yakovlevna Oprishko, see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2732 -- was NOT a schoolteacher. Of such stuff are adult nightmares made.

Photo:

Document cover (1943 printing, variation 2):

Order of Lenin, type 5, var. 1 #17231 With document (#135011) to Evdokiia Nikifornova Kalinina (female), 1 November 1944. The order booklet contains photo of the recipient and her signature ("none too fluid") and significantly shows only one decoration ? thus making it -- apparently -- a ?complete group?. An extraordinary award for a woman during WW2, and well before Orders of Lenin started to be awarded simply for length of military service. Both the order and the document are in excellent condition. Document is the 1943 printing, variation 2. As yet, no research joy on this one, too late for easy location.

There is no index that I am aware of, but taking the information in the award booklet, my researher is able to find the presidium orders and then, as available, check local papers in and around that date. No simple way (and no cheap way), but for labor awards ANYTHING is something!

Now, all ("all") I have to do is match this one up to the stack of copied newspaper articles I have, get teh others translated, and try to piece things together. And, somewhere, I guess I need to learn Russian.

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