Ed_Haynes

An Honour Gramota to the lady, Maria Alexandrovna Strod, technical employee of the Commerce school of the Commerce and Industry Management of Leningrad city, for the conscientious attitude to labour and to the socialist property.

Thanks, she seems to be the mother of the family (husband, wife, and son) on whom I have a stack of paperwork, recipient of the Defence of Leningrad medal.

But what sort of name is "Strod"???

You are starting on a very slippery slope

Oh . . . been there for some time . . . I am sorry to say . . . well, a wee little bit sorry.

This is part of a stack of family documents, photos, and (even) a few medals that have infected other threads in an as yet preliminary fashion.

I only wish I had the language skills / Мне только жаль, что я не имею языковые навыки!!!!

We have established a "generation" here??

Ed,

You have a GREAT set of Documents. Interesting family set!!!

Doc

Wait until you see the remainder, Doc, just wait 'till you see the rest. But translationbs are (always) a problem. Why am I so illiterate!

I took mine in Red Square, just near Red Square and Lenin's Tomb (to the left) and the Eternal Flame (to the right) in summer 2006.

Identical, Soviet. But Order of Labor, isn't it?

It's a family member of the guy in your other thread - the name of this man is Yevgeny Stanislavovich Strod.

Thanks. All part of a puzzling stack of family documents and photos and even a few medals.

In return for the "eye-candy", can someone help with the other side:

Nice . . .

His rank is glavny starshina - never seen that before. It could be translated as Chief Sergeant-Major...

Naval rank?

Absolutely! We (all) need to rememeber that the awards that really matter are those awarded to those who do the most important tasks for the nation. Often (usually?) these are NOT the people in uniform. (Despite the forum's title.)

I was envious enough already, Bob, but you have just made it MUCH worse . . .

An interesting (early-ish) one that came in the stack of challenging documents that just moved in.

Ed,

This is a first class driver's license. It authorizes him to operate vehicles (with the exception of buses and ambulances).

Regards,

slava1stclass

Thanks "Slava". Part of this great stack of family documents I have just received. Think this is the same as the young man in some of the photos I have posted elsewhere. Guess we all age, eh?

And the interior. What can be read, what can be known?

Thanks.

While many of my recent questions languish, I'll try one more.

A document. What is it?

Yes (summer 2006).

The one on the right (the maroon one) is new, the other (which has been shown before) is for comparison.

The maroon box is lined in rich maroon velvet (-like material). The badge is screwback, by "З. H. Б. КOВHИЦA", and a "III" aboive and is numbered "32898" at the bottom.

Someday, some way, we may figure these out?

It is amazing how these tend to cluster. All Pr?wema screwbacks.

Oh . . .

And this one has a pencil scribble on the reverse, tweaked to make it as "legible" as I can. All I can discern is the date of 12 March 1920 (?).

And a closeup on the young chap in uniform.

Oh, let me add another, same family, and a loving family group it is.

Two. If not of the same person, from the same family.

Thanks in advance for help and advice.