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Thanks Rick!! I'll request everything I don't have. Doc

Jaybo, WELCOME to the forum. I am sure you will enjoy being here. Thank You for your question!! It was a lesson for me as well. Doc

Christian, Thank You for your comments!! I wasn't aware of Stalin's Order # 281. As for Baturin's rank, this is all the information I have. I may request Service record. Doc

Well, not ignored by everyone because it has caught my eye Doc

Rick, Thank You for the information!!! I have never seen this medal. Doc

What are the physical differences between the Military and Civilian medal? Doc

Gerd, Thank You for your unit information!!! Ed, Great addition to this Medic thread!!! I'm now focusing on Soviet awards to medics and Doctors...Therefore this thread. Have a Happy New Year!!! Doc

Finally... Translation page 2 Danil Ermolaevich Baturin, Doctor 2nd Class Enjoy, Doc

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Citation back page

Citation front page

Award Card back side

Award Card

Unit Locations

Description Doc

#1 Here is the Order of the Red Star s/n 159,118 (with research) awarded to Danil Ermolaevich Baturin, Doctor 2nd Class. Doc

Soviet & Order of Victory, Thank You my friends!!! I am trying hard to learn to read and speak Russian. Your help will be needed from time to time!! Doc

Order of Victory, Thank You for the translation!! I am trying to learn to read Russian. I'm having trouble with a letter by letter translation of the cyrillic alphabet. For example recently I was attempting to translate the text on a badge. The letter by letter cyrillic to english translation was Beograd. I found out that it was Russian for Belgrad. Doc

I would like to buy it. Doc

Kilka, What does ??? ?????????? mean? Doc

Soviet, What does"Вот пожалуйста" mean my friend? Doc

Soviet, You may have a good point. However, for looking at types and variations and information such as the plow head, it is the BEST book. Everybody, PLEASE LISTEN, I am not trying to knock apart the evidence that Kilka has generously provided us. I am NOT convinced by all of it. He does have a couple of good points: the s/n and the mint mark. After talking about this with my mentor, it would seem that I may be totally wrong. If this is so I will state just that. I am NOT an expert regarding the ORB I can only post what I have experienced or read. For the current guardian of this ORB, I Hope that it is genuine. Doc

Dave, My mistake. The PMD on page 72 bottom paragraph discusses the lower number of threads per centimeter. However (Here's my mistake) it is only mentioned for the Type 1 Mirror reverse. Doc

Well, Please Let me start over. Kilka, WELCOME to the forum!!! I will list the parts of your evidence that I can show is wrong. 1) POST 29: On the Obverse of the ORB you circled the plow head at the flag pole. This is still debated today. There are genuine ORBs that have or do not have the plow head touching the flag pole. 2) POST 30: You have marked an area around the screw post. There is nothing concerning in that area. I would like to know how many threads there are on the screwpost. You MAY have a point here. 3) Post 31: While the Mint Mark is worn/faded it still looks like a genuine engraved Serial Number. These are points I looked at from your posts and spent a good amount of time reading my PMD. I did this to avoid "these people & Me are experts" I wanted to provide counter-evidence of my observations which were confirmed by the PMD. Doc

That serial number makes it most likely a Type 3, Variation 1. This was the Type that was the first ORBs Suspended from a 5-sided suspension. I would GUESS that many would "miss" their screwposts and have them converted. Doc