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Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 2nd class

Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 1st class

Order of Red Star

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Order of the Red Banner

Kutuzov 1st class

Suvorov 1st class

Order of the October Revolution

Number of awards by year Order of Lenin

Let`s make a special thread exclusively devoted to these interesting awards A good start will be a statistical review Total number of awards (with the exception of HSS) is 202 292 Including Order of Lenin 103 Order of the October Revolution 15 Suvorov 1st class 1 Kutuzov 1st class 1 Order of the Red Banner 2004 Order of the Red Banner of Labour 3 Order of Red Star 52 387 Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 1st class 1 Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 2nd class 118 Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class 20 741 Medal for Courage/Bravery 48 690 Medal for Battle Merit/Military Merit 76 221 Medal for Labour Valour 1188 Medal for Distinguished Labour 819 + Hero of the Soviet Union 85 (28 posthumous)

Back of the photo inscribed "In fond memory to front friend Barezk (?) L. from Ivan Larionov"

Looks like army dagger (model 1935) to me ...

Check this out!

Exaggeration! Aha! So now we have a possible country of origin ... Could be one of these european made "collectors copies" that Peterson mentioned in his book (although, if I remember correctly, he wrote only about japanese orders like rising sun, sacred treasure, etc). Can you tell us where this info about french origin came from?

I wouldn`t be suprised if this piece came from the same "workshop" as notorious Chrysanthemum

Mesmerizing

Somebody forgot about inscription on reverse of the leaf

Looks like this mutant is trying to mimic Taegeuk

Ok. Somebody please tell me what the heck is this?!

Portrait

Together with his students

or these ...