SWE Erik

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AWARD CITATION

First middle and last names: Sitara Andrey Maksimovich

Rank: Guards Private

Position, Unit: Field engineer, Field-engineer platoon, 7th Guards Airborne Rifle Regiment, 2nd Guards Airborne Proskurov Division

Is recomended for the order of glory 3rd class

Year of birth 1900

Nationality Ukrainan

Party membership Non-party

Participation in the civil war and other military actions aimed at the defense of the USSR (where and when): The 1st Ukrainian front-Since May 16, 1944 till august 10, 1944

The 4th Ukrainian front-Since August 10, 1944 till now

Wounds or contusions received during the patriotic war: None

In the red army since: April 9, 1944

Drafted by what district military commissariat: Barsk district military commissariat, vinnitsa region

Previous awards: None

Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family): Sloboda village, Barsk District, Vinnitsa region Wife-Sitara Sofia Andreevna

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF PERSONAL FEAT OR MERITS

During actions at Yablunov and Stopchashuv comrade Sitara placed 250 mines under the enemy's heavy rifle machine-gun and bombarding fire.

In the course of breaking the enemy's defense he went to minefields and wire entanglements twice, at this he disarmed 30 enemy's mines.

Within the Engineer Scout Unit he participated in the regiment assault, clearing the road from the enemy's mines.

In the course of defense of height 1005.0 he repulsed attacks under enemy's heavy bombardment and machine-gun fire, at this he displayed courage and heroism.

He deserves the government award, the order of glory,3rd class

Commander of the 7th Guards Airborne rifle regiment Guards Major /Nakonechnikov/

August 29, 1944

ll. Conclusion of the higher Command

lll. Conclusion of the army military council

lV. conclusion of the front military council

V. Conclusion of the award commission of the people's commissariat of defense

Vl. Award Record

The order of Glory, 3rd class, awarded under order # 0110/N of august 31, 1944 to the 2nd Guards

Airborne Division

Chief of cadre department

Guards Captain /??/

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I finally got the research for 3rd class Order of Glory 155631!

Пожалуйста!

RECORD CARD

Last name: Sitar

First,middle names: Andrey Maximovich

Military rank: Guards Red army man

Sex: Male

Year of birth: 1900

Place of birth: Sloboda Gulivskaya village, Barsk district, Vinnitsa region

Party memberchip since: (blank)

Education: Elementary

Nationality: Ukrainan

In the red army since: Since 1922 to 1924, since March 1944 to June 1945

Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied when awarded: 7th Guards Airborne regiment. Combat Engineer.

Current place of service and position: Sloboda Gulivskaya village, Barsk district, Vinnitsa region, "Kommunar" collective farm, Team-Leader

Record of previous avards:

Names of Orders, Their numbers Document numbers Ground for award

medals

Glory 3rd cl # 155631 Military certificate G-282715 Order no 0110/N of august 31, 1944 to 2nd Guards Airborne division

Red Star # 2034709 Military certificate K-070562 Order no 0131/N of May 18, 1945 to 2nd Guards Airborne division

For the victory over # ----- S-262777 Decree of May 09, 1945

Germany

Signature of awardee (signed)

Data correctness and signature of awardee attested by: Barsk District Military Commissar Captain (signed)

August 23, 1947

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That worn order of glory is great. I really like it!

A bit off topic but I can't resist.

This is what he would have looked like if he had been a cook.

Great research!

/Erik

Epppppppppppssssssssssssssson scanner.

These came out fine!

Karl Petrivich SPROGIS, Red Army Private, was indeed authorized a Valor Medal by decree of the Western Front on 20 January 1942, but received VM # 3,100,206 out of the box (maybe he was a POW? Reeeeeseaaaarch....) by Riga City Military Commissariat 12 December 1945!

From his name, he must have been a local Latvian.

Thank You very much! I'm actually thinking about researching it but I have a few more waiting and I have not made up my mind yet. But before that, I'm still waiting for my OG research to come in the mail. It appeared that there had been some misunderstanding but I'm hoping it will come this or next week. I'll post it when I get it.

Epson....

/Erik

Erik,

I really like the Temporary certificate and medal!! As for your scanner I scan everything including black & white photos using the Color photo setting. It works every time.

Doc

Thank You! Yes, who needs to use the black and white settings anyway. It will probably work if i bother to download new drivers.

/Erik

and the medal

closeup

It was time to try our new hp scanner so I decided to scan this bravery medal with temporary award document. It appears that it crashes when I don?t make a scan in colour?. If it can scan colour why not black and white!... Anyway? I think his name is Sirogis Karl Petrovich the rest I can't read. Was it given 12 December 1945 for something he did in 1942? Or have I got everything vrong?

I think I will use my digital camera in the future.

/Erik

There are still some tasty little bargains to be had on EBay. !

Congratulations!

That Kite looks really familiar... Hope I have better luck with the next one.

It is really nice, can't get much better!

/Erik

Erik,

yes they did !! They started to fake campaign medals short after the wall broke down. At first the

rarer campaign medals (Belgrad, Sewastopal...) and the WW II excellent awards (best submariner,

torpedo specialist...) I bought the first fakes around 1992/93.

regards

Andreas

Thank You for the information about that.

I guess the fakes were not very good back then. Or could they be mistaken for originals? Some of the recent fakes are quite scary.

/Erik

I can't see anything wrong with them. I agree the Vienna medal looks a bit weird but it is probably ok, just very worn.

Did they even fake campaign medals 10 years ago?

/Erik

It says third place,category,class? I am not sure what the exact translation of раЗряд would be here.

Hope it helps

/Erik

Hi!

Does anyone know if the conflict centering on the Damanskij island in the Ussuri river between China and the Soviet union continued into 1970? Could the order have been awarded as part of the fighting here?

/Erik

very nice! these medals are great because they were only awarded for combat!!! very nice one to!!

They were? I thought it was awarded for distinguished military service in general, not only combat?

/Erik

By the way... Are the boxes made of wood or plastic?

I remembered this old thread You might not have seen. My favourit. A 4th class which looks like it could be from around 1910.

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=3202

Thanks Eric I see your writing is different. So would this be from between 1945 and 1947?

Would that apply for the 6th class also, or were rivets not used on that grade?

Rivets were used on 6th class orders and above. I believe they stoped using rivets sometime after the war (that is what I have heard). Sacred treasures are still awarded in Japan so Your order are probably made betwen 1945-2006. I can't be more acurate than that, sorry. So much still to learn about them.

I am actually only collecting the early ones.

The writing shanged sometime in the thirties to the style on Your 5th cl.

Hope it helps

/Erik

and the box. I think this order are made sometime around 1920. (I'm guessing here).

Edit: problem attaching picture

Case front I forgot to include it. I would like some opinions on this one if possible, the reverse seems to be as new as yesterday! Thats all for now here, thanks for looking

Hi!

I think this order is perfectly fine. But it looks like a post war wariation. (no rivets on the reverse of the order). I don't think I have ever seen any fake 5th cl Sacred treasures.

/Erik

here is my one

Edit: wrote 6th instead of 5th...

Is it the type of tunic? With that collar? I can't remember what it is called.

/Erik

A strange looking eagle!?

/Erik

Isn't the bravery medal entry in the booklet missing a "0"?

A stunning group I have to agree, but without campaign medals I'm not interested.

/Erik

The enamel work on these and the other Japanese medals sure is sweet.

shhh! We do not want any more competition.

Great collection. I really like the design of the sacred treasure orders.

/Erik

I forgot to say that it is unmarked.

Here is another one from my collection that is marked. Made of what looks to be silver. I will only post a picture of the mark since the rest of the medal looks like any other red cross medal.