Bryan

A tuned-up Volga. Some crazy oligarch that doesn't know what to do with is money. The car was ordered by the president of "Евросеть" (Euroset - http://www.euroset.com/) a mobile phone comany in Russia. The car as the body of a Volga 21, but it was tuned-up by Porsche motor and so on.

Another Berlin group in my collection Pavel Ignatevitch Olefirenko http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=1781...mp;#entry172323

And an aerial picture from 1991.

62 years ago today (on April 29th), Pavel Ignatevitch Olefirenko earned is second Bravery medal. Here are some background information.

Here is Saarlandstrasse in 1938. This is from the book : "Berlin Then and Now" by Tony Le Tissier.

Here is the Saarlandstrasse in Berlin from a 1943 map. The fighting was not so far from Potsdamer Platz and the Reichskanzlei from Hitler. http://www.alt-berlin.info/cgi/stp/lana.pl...p;ost=13.388395

I have just acquired a partially researched group consisting of 2 Bravery medals and Warsaw & Berlin medals belonging to an artillery repairman. With the help of a moderator I was able to complete the translation on the award card of this soldier. An abbreviation of the citation in English was already available when I bought the group. The soldier was part of the 185th Guards Artillery "Poznansky Red Banner" Regiment. ------------------------------------------------------------ Award card : Pavel Ignatevitch Olefirenko 1. Last Name : Oliferenko 2. Name and Patronymic : Pavel Ignatevitch 3. Military Rank : Guards Private 4. Sex : Man 5. Year of birth : 1908 6. Place of birth : Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast, Kreminsky Raion, Molvaika village 7. Party membership : not a member 8. Education : illiterate 9. Nationality : Ukrainian 10. Service in the Red Army : 1943-1945 11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 185 Artillery Regiment, 82 Rifle Division, 8th Army - Art. Maister (that is, artillery workshop craftsman 12. Place of service and duty position at the current time : Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast, Svatovsky R(aio)n, Sovkhoz N. 10 ? Tractor driver 13. Home Address: Voroshilovgradskaya Oblast, Svatovsky R(aio)n, Sovkhoz N. 10 14. Awards: #1 Medal for Bravery # 1 744 542 185 Artillery Regiment: 21/10/1944 #2 Medal for Bravery # 2 338 160 82 Rifle Division, 19/05/1945 ------------------------------------------------------------ The second Valour Medal that has been researched was put in for a Red Star. It was approved as such by Division, but bumped down by Corps to a Valour Medal again. Citation abbreviated (Medal for Bravery # 2 338 160) Awarded for "fighting near Saarlandstra?e from 29-30.04.45 while under enemy sniper and MG fire, he repaired a cannon 4 times that had become non-mission capable, thus permitting continuous fire. In this fighting were destroyed 2 buildings with SMG gunners, 8 MGs, 10 Panzerfaust, a large caliber air defense weapon, and as many as a platoon of infantry."

Nikolei Alexeievitch Tuzlukov

Yummy! Nice "salty" worn medal with a great story! Thanks for sharing your collection with us!

Thank you William. I didn't know they were all unumbered.

Any idea?

No but I should! I live in Montr?al in an Indo-Pakistani quarter. India is definitely in my travel list. It looks to be a so interesting country for me.

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Question : Are they all unumbered? Like this 3rd Class :

And the Khorezm order !!! It seems this dealer is splitting a lot of groups in his auctions.

Yes, very impressive catalog! Hier is the medal in question :

Very sweat! Those are all in huge cases!

I got my cloth ribbon bar from the same source as yours I guess.

Interesting, no I didn't notice it. It seems the combinations from these "fruit salads" ribbon bars can be identically found somewhere else. For example, I found exactly the same 3 ribbon bars for sale than the one I posted in post #32.

Neat little group! It seems the veteran liked to put his Leningrad medal in front of his medal for combat service, contary to the regulation. I think it is very nice that they are on a single bar. What is the type of suspension? Steel, aluminium? Is the CS medal from 1953? Concerning the stamp I cannot read the word on the right of the stamp. It is too small for me. I read something like : Leningrad central soviet deputy - comity Someone with better russian knowledge will help you better than me.

If you just started with Yugoslavian orders, you might not want to stop right now!

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Very nice! Thanks again for your pictures!

Thank you Ed for your very informative answer!

Found on Internet : (it looks pretty cool) The former Lenin museum hosts a giant Lenin head. Nowadays the museum serves as a pool hall! http://www.connection.se/hem/anders/resor/lenin/ Ed, have you found other Lenin statues in Mongolia? Is this one still stands outside the Ulanbaatar hotel?