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So here is a sloppy translation from Russian to French then from French to English. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is what the research says. Name, First Name, Patronymic: Tchmul Lidiya Ivanovna Post: Chief Secretary from a communication workshop of the 7th Guards Army Candidate for the Medal for Combat Service Birth year : 1923 Nationality: Ukrainian Member of the Komsomol since 1938 Participation in the Civil War or other actions for the defence of the Soviet Union : Great Patriotic War participant since October 22nd 1942 Wounds : ------- RVK de recruiting: Stalingrad region , Bikovsk, RVK Medals : Defense of Stalingrad Address of the candidate : Stalingrad region, district of Bikovsk, village of Razhdolye Mother : Novuvorskaya Elena Pavlovna Chief Secretary of the OAMC administration, she has shown discipline and she proved that she was capable of some initiative. She learned her work in a short period of time and she has contributed to ameliorate de situations in many things. Without thinking about sleeping, she was able to reconstruct the accountancy of the material and the alimentary products. She was able to pursue here writings during the Belgorod-Kharkov battles where she was an example for the personnel of her unity from a disciplinary point of view and for her initiative. Therefore she is recommended for the Medal for Combat Service. Major of the Guard of the OAMC of the 7th Guards Army Citation part 2 Is being awarded the Medal for Combat Service (order N 275 from the 7th Guards Army on October 10th 1943

Thanks for the information. As a new "researcher" it is more than welcome!

Thanks Rick, I have completed the informations. For "Yefreiter", I had in my dictionnary "Corporal". I'm still a newbie with those terms.

Thank you Dave again! I appreciate your help.

Oh yes, you are right! I guess I still have to learn a lot about research!

Award card The award card confirm that she received a Combat Service medal #807967 on the 10.10.1943 by Prikaz of the 7th Army and a Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad on 22.12.1942 by Ukaz. Could you please tell me why does the document number in the award card and my CSM document are not the same? Does somebody is able to read what is written beside the stamp where it is written : "Kharkov Oblast". it is difficult for me. Maybe tomorrow I post the citation. I don't want to look lazy, so I will try to translate what I can before to post it.

So here is the registration form and the award card. This is my first researched grouping, so I tried to do my best with the translation. However, I do not know if it is accurate, because my mother tongue is French. So I hope you can somewhat understand. Registration form 1. Family Name : Shmul 2. First and middle name : Lydia Ivanovna 3. Military Rank : Private First Class/lance Corporal 4. Sex : Woman 5. Year of birth : 1923 6. Place of birth : Mozovaya, Khakov Oblast 7. Party membership : 1938, member of the VLKSM (Komsomol) 8. Education: Secondary 9. Nationality : Ukrainian 10. From which time with the Red Army : October 7th1942 ? August 1st 1945 11. Place of service and post during the awarding moment: 64th Independent Army Workshop of Signals, 7th Guards Army, Senior Clerk 12. Place of service post now : Kharkov Oblast, Kharkov medicine institute, student 13. Home Address : Kharkov Oblast, city of Lozovaya, Soviet Street # 10

So basically, it only tells you from which level the medals/orders were issued. For example most of the Capture and Defense medals would have been awarded by приказ or указ ?

It is something I also saw on eBay. I bet this is a commemorative medal or fantasy.

Could somebody give me an occurate definition and explanation about what Ukaz and Prikaz are? I have a researched document were it is written : 10 October 1943, Указ. Thanks for your help!

I got the research today. I'll try to translate what I can before to post it.

Thanks for the precision guys. So the group is complete in regards to the research, but the group might be incomplete in regards of what I have. Hope I'll receive it next week or so. I don't know when. The seller said it's in the mail.

If I understand well, she perhaps got the Victory medal with they are not written in her service book? Research said she only got those 2 medals. Maybe it's just me and I don't really understand how it worked with the awards.

And this MVD plaque for $500.

This one sold today for $100

I forgot to ask why do you think she didn't qualify for a medal for the capture of budapest or even the most common medal for the Victory over Germany. How can you get a medal for the Defense of Stalingrad and a CSM medal without being awarded a the Victory over Germany medal?

Hehehe, thanks Rick. I had time to translate most of the things you mentioned so far. However, I have to admit I have some holes in my translation. The scans I have made are much clearer than what you see. I lost some quality while resizing the files. Hope I'll get the research soon. It will be my first try to translate such documents. It makes fun to translate this thing even if I'm so slow, but I'm afraid there are many terms I'm not able to find in my dictionaries or this is only because I do not decipher all words very well. I need to practice my Russian a little bit more.

For 1946 issued medals, those are in really good shape! Do you think everybody received the 25 years Victory over Germany Jubilee Medal? The only thing I always worry about those groups with unumbered CSM, is that one of the previous seller has slip a missing unumbered CSM to the group. We never know if it comes from the group or if it was missing. But in your case the condition of both CSM and BM are consistent, so I think it is a really nice little group. I don't know what you want to know on the stamps, but it is interesting that you can see the different variations with the stars and the snowflakes.

EDIT: This is not the Belgorod were she fought. Belgorod was part of the counter-offensive which followed the Battle of Kursk.

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