Hi Chuck, I had someone help trans. your doc. Thanks you Mark.. Heres what he said it states. Staff-Captain Rudakovskii is awarded the medal of the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos (local councils) for caring for sick and wounded soldiers. Attested by the Chairman of the Committee for the Southwest Front, Actual State Councilor -----signature. (Actual State Councilor - civil official rank equal to a military general) (Local Zemstvo councils took up all sorts of homefront activities during the war - nursing, aid to soldiers' families, bond drives, etc.) George