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Othewise practically mint

This chips and cracks look pretty unusual .... I wonder what was the cause

These are spring up like mushrooms overnight Another breast star from Showa epoch

Official order of ribbons has all answers http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/files/file/100-ussr-ribbon-chart/

Nice one! He listed here http://www.tankfront.ru/ussr/tbr/tbr162.html#bchsref

I bet!

I see ... Another innocent victim of Great Northern War Try this Windows XP 1. Go to Start menu and open Control Panel 2. Open Regional and Language 3. On the top of the box click on Languages 4. Click on Details button 5. Click on Add button 6. In the end of Input Language English click on blue button with little arrow inside. 7. Find Russian and click on it. 8. In the end of the next line Keyboard layout/IME click on the blue button with little arrow 9. Find Russian from drop menu and click on it 10. Click OK button for Windows 98 Go to START menu and click on Control Panel 1. Find Keyboard icon and click on it. 2. Find Languages click on it. 3. Youll see English, click on ADD button. 4. Click on arrow in the end of the English Line and choose Russian from the drop menu If you still cannot see Russian letters (Cyrillic) Look on the top of your Internet Explorer 1. Click on View 2. Click on Encoding 3. Click on More 4. Try first Cyrillic Windows 5. Then try all of them till youll be able to see Russian writing.

Amazing citation! Congrats Timo :cheers:

Excellent photo Karsten! St.Stanislaus with swords is for boxer rebellion no doubt Best, Nick

Reports about "Podolsk moving" are very much exaggerated http://rusbeseda.ru/index.php?topic=10532.0 Please feel free to write them Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации Адрес: 142100, г. Подольск Московской области, ул. Кирова, 74. Тел.: (4967)69-96-20, 69-95-59, 69-91-71 or simply visit them Проезд: электричка: с Курского вокзала или от метро «Царицыно» до ст. Подольск, далее троллейбусами 1, 2 или автобусами 10, 14, 15 до остановки «Архив» рейсовый автобус: от метро «Южная» автобусами 406, 417 до остановки «Архив» Время работы: понедельник—четверг: 8.30—17.30 пятница: 8.30—16.15

Ok, now we know who is he Underpraporshik Efremov I.K./Подпрапорщик Ефремов И.К. Photo was made in St.Petersburg in August 1916

Impressive!

Seriously?!

Hi Jeff, any thoughts where from these numbers came?

and in pensive mood "Another rainy day in London ... Paul is playing with his medals again ... Same old, same old..." Thanks for the pictures! P.S. This chap-fallen monster on the central medallion looks really aggressive!

Aha! "Find the differences" ... Сайн уу!

Yes, these are silver eagles! You might find this interesting http://www.retroplan.ru/encyclopaedia.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=64&sobi2Id=820

Yes, that's true! Russia is practically like Florida - no attics or cellars whatsoever. Only the water here is a little bit colder ...

Yep. Blume, August. The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I, Volume One. (Schiffer Publishing, 2010). ISBN 0764333518, 978-0764333514. Blume, August. The Russian Military Air Fleet in World War I, Volume Two. (Schiffer Publishing, 2010) ISBN 0764333526, 9780764333521. Unfortunately I don't have them in my library ... He may be even in this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_I_flying_aces_from_the_Russian_Empire I don't know about this... Looks like a quite successful fighter ... on the love front

Come on! It's Russia!!! Land of plenty... Cradle of democracy...

Nice!

St.George + St.Anna + In memory of patriotic war 1812 (?) + For capturing of Paris on March 19, 1814 (?) + German 1813-1814 (?) Cheers, Nick

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