Ed_Haynes

What a nice photo, what a nice trio. Worth the damage to his suit.

Interesting. Thanks, James!

And the reverse of this photo.

A Soviet recipient of the 1st class.

Slightly but a Soviet recipient of an Order of Military Merit. But an ADMIRAL???

Reverse.

And one more, he was hiding. Also soft focus.

Another, softer focus alas:

Reverse:

Two images of the medal in wear:

And a final one, early.

Another, no name.

Another; no name on reverse.

Another.

Some full cavaliers.

Nasty zink garden watering can reverse?

Reverse? As usual. And as predicted.

Knowing your fondness for backsides, errr back sides, I should have posted this already.

30th Armed Forces???

Just in, one of those tiny, thin, fragile plastic ribbon bars. I fear that if I blow on it it will dissolve away.

Pretty straightforward, but what is the last one? Has something obvious fallen through my Swiss-cheese brain-holes? The stripes are greener than they look in the scan.

A lot of collectors use QSA ribbon, though it differs slightly.

I know the OMSA ribbon bank had some, I sent it to them.

Thanks.

Two more:

7- It is a very nice recommendation.

8- The US$ is worthless. This is priced in US$. Just ("just") some 410,000 roubles (or 1,004,177,022,450,000 Zimbabwe dollars).

A complex question:

1- What it represents = three consecutive acts of extreme combat gallantry.

2- That it can be (and has been) researched.

3- Intrinsic value (gold).

4- That a lot of folks (especially in Russia) have the money for something like this.

I hate to think. Add a zero to that price??

And a single! Though it is researched. Oy!!

It has become very hard to find in India. I doubt that any of the recipients are still in service and, therefore, military tailors no longer care.

Well that explains why i couldn't find it!!!! Dumb me using the wrong name. Well i'm learning. I've really begun to take and interest in Soviet Russian awards and will focus on those for the moment but i noticed this in the mix and just had to enquire.

Cheers

Chris

Actually, it would be very heard to search on that name, given the limitations of forum software.

Look around, you will find much of comparative interest, I think!

For a nice (at least I like it) Soviet-Mongolian crossover, see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=10742

To go the other direction, see http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=23322