Ed_Haynes

T 26 [sic, = T 30] -- Blood Donor

T 26 [sic, = T 27]-- Red Cross Activist

T 23 -- The Honored Blood Donor

T 16 -- Mongolian Red Cross

K 45 -- Industrial Combinat

K 12 -- The Outstanding Worker of Light Industry

K 37 -- Industry Pin

K 41 -- The Industrial Combinat

K 13 -- The Outstanding Worker of the Food Industry

K 19 -- The Outstanding Young Worker

K 27 -- The Outstanding Worker of Material and Technical Suppy

K 01 -- The Outstanding Worker of the MPR

Here are some updates on the documented/cased Honoirary Medal of Labor #10328, with all the written matter, shown above. The female recipient is Erdeniin Gombosuren. The notes: -- 807.60 Tugrik and 4 rams were collected from the sheep herder Gombosuren. The collection is completed. The bookkeeper of the collective farm. Bamshav. -- The private petition to the trade union committee and administration through the chief of the second unit. I worked without interuption in the unit from 1950 to 1960, therefore I am asking that my working hours be written correctly into my labor book and that I receive the additional payment for the long working period. The private petitioner, the sheep herder of the second unit. Erdeniin Gombosuren. -- Herewith I confirm that Erdeniin Gombosuren worked since 1950 in the pasture as sheep herder, cow herder. Senior veterinary. (left confirmation). -- Herewith is to confirm, that comrade Gombosuren is herding the animals since 1950. Herder (right) -- Herewith is to confirm, that Gombosuren is herding the animals. (down) -- To the Soum administration: Herewith to confirm, that the persons Chuluunjuu, Choijamts, Gombodorj who gave the confirmation on Gombosuren are themselves workers of the livestock farm. The confirmation on Gombosuren is correct, the confirmation is approved. The secretary of the Soum administration. And then, presumably, she got a medal?

With other (post sorting) badges "displayed" like this (one envelope per Battushig letter). Better display options are under (intense) family negotiation

Display? Display! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I wish! The "display" in front of me just now.

Yes, Christian, the UNTHINKABLE did happen from time to time.

Not yet. Not until more documented sets (or just documents) turn up.

Ohhhh . . .

Being civilian, they are usually carefully ignored.

1- X 13 - Shockworker of Socialist Labor, class 1 2- A 56 - Medal "80 Years of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (1921-2001) 3- need more details please 4- need more details please

As we look more closely at our Mongolian awards, we can actually LEARN THINGS. Wow. In addition to the big orders, there is much of interest in the other awards (the last 2/3 of Battushig's book). One thing to emerge is that, in addition to the familiar orders and a few campaign medals, a lot of the other awards are numbered (and, potentially, some day, researchable?). I have noted a few (with observed ranges): C 49 -- 805 UNIT OF THE INTERIOR ARMY -- Low = ???/High = 493 C 22 -- BEST STUDENT OF THE MPA -- Low = ???/High = 1631 BEST FIREFIGHTER OF THE MPR G01 -- Type 1 (numbered) -- Low = 0323/High = 0325 G02 -- Type 2 (unnumbered) G03 -- Type 3 (numbered) -- Low = 1706/High = ??? K 07 -- THE BEST CREATOR -- Low = 134/High = 717 M 04 -- THE OUTSTANDING WORKER OF TRADE -- Low = 0303/High = 0748 M 05 -- THE OUTSTANDING WORKER OF TRADE -- Low = ???/High = 0174 M11 -- THE OUTSTANDING WORKER OF TRADE -- Low = 1858/High = 2012 O 02 -- HONORED RAILWAY WORKER -- Low = 4/High = 177 O3 -- HONORED RAILWAY WORKER -- Low = 11/High = ?? V 05 -- THE OUTSTANDING WORKER OF THE MONGOLIAN REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH LEAGUE -- Low = 260/High = 836 V28 -- THE INVENTOR?S MEDAL (engraved number, ?No?) -- Low = 126/High = 222 CHAMPION OF SOCIALIST COMPETITION X 01 -- Type 1.1 (numbered, screwback, engraved number) -- Low = 80/High = 81 Type 1.2 (numbered, screwback, stamped number) -- Low = 1335/High = 4501 Type 1.3 (unnumbered, screwback) X 01? -- Type 2.1 (numbered, pinback) -- Low = 541/High = 1771 X 02? -- Type 2.2 (unnumbered, pinback) X NIB 01 -- LABOR UNION MEMBERSHIP BADGE -- Low = 17599/High = 26608 X NIB 03 -- OUTSTANDING WORKER OF THE TRADE UNION -- Low = 830/High = 982 More????

Once again, you have to wonder . . . . I have continued to post here, trying to build a database of images to supplement Battushig's book. But it begins to feel like speaking in a monologue to echoes in an otherwise empty room. I know that a number of our former stalwarts have fallen silently away, some have left Mongolian collecting entirely, others just seem to have vanished from the forum. It seems that, for Mongolian phaleristics, the transition from magpie-style type collecting to a mature collecting field may have been an insurmoutable hurdle? It may not be so much a problem of "hype", but one of serious and sustained interest? Maybe soyombos can't stand up to swastikas? Is this forum alive, or is it just me? This had held promise of being the #1 site on Mongolian phaleristics, but maybe no one cares anymore? I have been trying to sustain life and interest here, but shall quite probably be slowing down my postings. If I seem to be wandering somewhere between curious, confused, and depressed, it may just be because I am.

Nice ones, Doc and Gerd! Let me just cross-reference here my single Glory 3 to First Sergeant of the Guards Alexandra Vasilyevna Grebenschchikova, Sanitary Instructor of motor rifle company, 1st Motor Rifle Battalion, 29th Guards Order of Bogdan Khemelnitsky 1st Degree Motor Rifle Brigade of Unech, The Guards Tank Ural-Lvov Voluntary Corps. Her recommendation: "When fighting against German invaders Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova was among the first to cross in the forging of the River Oder [ca. 22 Jan 1945] and under strong machine-gun and artillery fire rendered medical assistance to 75 wounded. She took 63 heavily wounded persons with their personal weapons away from the battlefield. "The Guards First Sergeant Grebenschchikova deserves a government award, Order of the Red Banner." Downgraded (approved March 1945, awarded March 1990) to a Glory 3. See: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=2329

Yes . . . really nice one . . . the JOYS of RESEARCH?!

That is a very useful thread that Dave has pointed you to, but we should always remember that Soviet awards were not distributed in strict numerical order. There is much "variability" (to be polite) in how these things were given out. It is more art than science to attribute any given number to a specific time period. Absent documentation or research, you'll never be sure on a date.