Bob

This group passed through multiple pairs of hands before it ended in my collection and it is a wonderfully documented group. It originated from Erdenet town although Comrade Todkhuu (born in 1919) for many years worked at a/the UB meat processing factory. Judging from the documents in the group, comrade Todkhuu worked there as a welder and rationalizator (whatever that means). He was bestowed the State Prize in 1975 for "mechanization of the production process, improving the labor productivity and increasing the factory efficiency" as quoted from the large red State Prize Diploma. He was also a deputy of People's Great Khural. Judging from the two large photos, comrade Todkhuu was also awarded the Order of Sukhbaatar, ORBLV, two OPS and various medals. Unfortunately, the family got his suit with all orders, medals and badges stolen back in the 1990s. Todkhuu was able to have his State Prize Badge and some minor medals re-issued. Since his passing away roughly 20 years ago, Todkhuu's son has kept his State Prize badge and all his documents as a memory. Included in the group are the following: a) Re-issue State Prize Badge with the original State Prize Winner's Diploma. b) Document of the Medal of 40th anniversary of People's Revolution. c) Document of the Medal of 50th anniversary of People's Revolution. d) Document of the Medal of 60th anniversary of People's Revolution. e) Hard-cover document of the Badge of Best Worker of the Ministry of Food and Light Industry. Signed by the Minister P. Damdin. Awarded in 1977. f) Document of Best Care Taker of the Youth. Awarded in 1976. g) Document of the Winner of Socialist Labor Competition. Awarded in 1971. h) Document of the Badge "Winner of 5th Five-Year Plan" awarded in 1974. i) Document of the Badge "Winner of 5th Five-Year Plan" awarded in 1980. j) Small Document of the Badge "Member of Socialist Labor Brigade" awarded in 1967. k) Blue Leather cover document of the Winner of Socialist Labor Competition. Awarded in 1979. l) Finance and Accounting school certificate issued to comrade Todkhuu in 1939. He enrolled the school in 1938 and graduated a year later. For some reason, he did not pursue the accounting career but the skills he learnt at the school helped him a lot to come up with innovative ideas later. The document has young Todkhuu's picture. m) Large document awarded to comrade Todkhuu as the participant of the Regional Conference of Care-takers of young generation. n) And one of the most interesting documents... a People's Deputy's Official grievance book. The group includes two books. The official book was issued to each deputies to take notes of the problems raised and proposals put forward by the electorate. The books have been filled with deputy Todkhuu's handwritten text. After each text, the deputy used to sign it and date. The issues that were written in this book were copied and sent to the Parliament Secretariat. There are also official letters from ministries addressed to deputy Todkhuu informing him what actions were taken in response to his request and instructions. o) The group also includes some documents pertaining to his primary work at the Meat Processing Factory. As mentioned, comrade Todkhuu was an inventor. He received the State Prize for series of inventions that led to improvement of the factory's production output and increased the operational efficiency. The photos in the group show some hand-written and hand-drawn draft proposals on changing the production line for removing sheep and goat skin. It is possible to assume that this particular proposal was a part of the work that earned him the awards and the State Prize in particular. There are few documents in the group that pertain to this kind of work. p) The group also includes 9 documents, some bearing the photos of comrade Todkhuu, being professional ID docs, local khural deputy ID and delegate IDs. q) The group also has an Original Innovator's License issued to a group of workers including Todkhuu in Sept. 1979. The license was given to the proposal to introduce salt washing and grinding line at the Food Factory.Signed by the Deputy Minister of Food and Light Industry and sealed with the stamp of the ministry. r) The group also includes certificates issued to comrade Todkhuu that his photo was placed on the annual Wall of Fame of the Best Workers and Employees of the Factory. s) Also two identical looking documents. The paperback is an invitation from Mongolian Communist Parliament to conrade Todkhuu asking him to attend the parliament sessions (one in Nov 1974 and another in Dec 1976). t) The other two blue hard cover docs were awarded to Todkhuu for labor achievements from the UB Meat Processing Factory named after Stalin. Both documents dated 1953 and 1955 respectively. You can read the Stalin name on the seal of the factory. This group is not entirely complete although I have the majority of documents related to Todkhuu's awards. Major exceptions are the order booklet and the People's Deputy badge doc. The photos of him wearing all his awards really help in figuring out what would have been a complete set. Also, three original photographs included: a) Comrade Todkhuu wearing all his awards including the People's Deputy badge (probably taken in 1970s) b) Comrade Todkhuu wearing all his awards (on the back of the photo is a stamp of the Meat Processing Factory and the date of 1988. The hand-written note says that this photo was place on the hall of fame at the factory). c) A group photo depicting the Best unit of the Factory from 1973-1975. Comrade Todkhuu is second on the right on top row. The picture also depicts the building of the factory and a part of meat processing equipment system (sheep/goat skin removal line). The description is done in Mongolian, Russian and German. GDR was a major partner in upgrading this factory. Todkhuu's name and some brief info on his State Prize justification are in the big Blue Book (page 720. no 59). Will be posting a LOT of pics in coming minutes.

Here a group of documents that belonged to Lt.Colonel Sambuu Dorjgotov. He was a senior ranking officer at the Ministry of Public Security of MPR back in 1970s. He was a Senior Officer (Deputy Chief) of the Department #1 (Foreign Intelligence) of the Ministry of Public Security in 1972. In other word: a spy. At that time he held the rank of Major. Documents in the group: 1) Order of Sukhbaatar recipient's booklet for receiving monthly 50 tugrugs. The document has the recipient's photo and the details of the Sukhbaatar order (besides the award date and decree number, it also lists the serial number #1289 and serial number of the booklet #1241). He received the payments from November 1977 till end of June 1979. 2) Order and Medal Booklet listing three awards: 1) Honorary Medal of Combat # 5110 awarded in 1956; 2) Order of Combat Valor awarded in 1961 and Order of Red Banner of Combat Valor awarded in 1972. 3) Document for the Medal of 50 Years of Mongolian State Security awarded in 1972. 4) Document for the Medal of 50 Years of Mongolian People's Army awarded in 1971. 5) Document for the Medal of 30 Years of Victory over Japan awarded in 1975. 6) Delegate's credentials to the 16th Congress of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party dated June 8, 1971.

And here one to Mongolian Colonel Zulaa

Here's a small group of two Soviet Medals awarded to Colonel Zandraa Zulaa: 1) Soviet Medal of Strengthening Combat Brotherhood with the award document. The document is signed by Minister of Defense of USSR Marshal Ustinov! The medal was awarded on Sept. 4, 1981. 2) 70 years of Soviet Armed Forces medal with the document. The medal was awarded on April 20, 1981. There were very few colonels in early 1980s and, considering Zulaa was awarded the Soviet Medal of Strengthening Combat Brotherhood, he must have been a high-ranking officer within the Ministry of Defense. Unfortunately the family split up the group. Maybe I'll be lucky and be able to find more parts of the group to keep it together.

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Looking forward to visiting UB again in 2020 Anybody here have had the pleasure of visiting the Bank of Mongolia's State Treasury Exhibition? Advice on getting access? https://www.mongolbank.mn/eng/aboutUs.aspx?id=7

Another PM update https://fb.ru/article/242587/general-armii-shevtsova-tatyana-viktorovna-foto-biografiya-semya-kontaktyi-nagradyi Shevtsov's daughter is also a general in the army... interesting career: - from tax service to army and appointed deputy minister of defense by Medvedev - range of awards: Honored Economist, Order of Merit, Labour Valor medal, honorary diploma of state duma, 300 years st Petersburg medal, 65 years of the kaluga region medal, return of crimea medal, order of friendship, etc.

Thanks I've also received very helpful feedback via PM and will share the key points (thanks to the person reaching out to me who wishes to remain anonymous) 1. No surprise: pics I posted above is not of the complete group. It's been cut into smaller pieces as it came on the market in the former USSR. Hopefully research will help clarify what the full picture is and fingers crossed on possibly reuniting some pieces. 2. Somebody who's seen broader versions of this group informed me that a key element of the group was a double awarding of the "Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms" medal, the first dated early 1980s and the second 1990, if memory wasn't failing this person. That duo was sold separately somewhere along the line. Apparently, this double awarding was an extremely rare phenomenon because the medal was technically not supposed to be presented multiple times. 3. While I will be pursuing research, I was informed that both Soviet orders are likely for "military and political training" with a chance that Shevtsov's international missions would be mentioned in the Red Star citation (although those wouldn't be the "reason" for the award). 4. Finally, as mentioned by Will, the Ukrainian badge is for Anti-Aircraft Forces (which included fighter units). Seems to be official or at least MoD approved.

Am normally focused on Albanian and Mongolian but very occasionally dabble in Soviet awards. Is all research now done online? What are some recommended service providers who can do the research and translation for me?

https://mongoliafaq.com/?p=3819 Breathing some life into this board!

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https://mongoliafaq.com/?p=3987 Great website - anybody know where Tsedenbal is buried? Is there a kind of hero's cemetery?

http://m.oananews.org/news.php?id=540596 I'll be travelling to UB again later in 2020 - hope this exhibition will still be there!

Here a documented one to a soviet general

Just arrived - acquired because of the Mongolian connection. Any chance of interesting research or likely just long service awards? Anybody who recognizes the Ukranian booklet? Documented Mongolian Red Combat Banner order nr 4597 from 1988 Documented Soviet Red Star Order nr 3696152, 16 February 1982 Documented Soviet Order Service to the Motherland nr 5228, 30 April 1975 Documented Bulgarian Medal to be identified Booklet for some kind of Ukranian air force (?) award And 3 award booklets for common Soviet jubilee medals

Revisiting this old thread after 10 years - beautiful!

Looks good at first glance, and a decent price. Would have been happy to bid on it but long gone are the days of clicking on eBay each day (multiple times!)

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention (and rarely on ebay nowadays). What was sold for 4850? I am still recovering from the hero start a few months ago so pausing on new items. Well, OK, did get several Partisan star badges in the mail this weekend - I couldn't resist! :)

Based on Urnukh's book and public lists I believe I've been able to narrow it down to 3 possible names (am assuming that it was awarded as it's part of the first batch of 20 produced and more were ordered). Given the very good condition, my hypothesis is pointing towards one name in particular and that is further reinforced by what appears to be in the big blue book full of awardees (i.e. that the other two options both passed away in 1939 and were awarded the Hero title posthumously if not mistaken without the gold star). If I am correct, the person who was awarded will be very easy to research and it will be an interesting one: German Titov (Soviet Cosmonaut). All it is right now is an educated guess though. If anybody here has access to German Titov's family members that would possibly enable me to validate the nr.

Just in... an epaulette belonging to King Zog: "silver-plated with embossed crescent moons and monogram "AZ" fastened with pins underneath the crown of Skanderbeg. Silver bullion fringes. The back lined with black and white wool, the formerly gilt flap with raised manufacturer’s inscription "Unione Militare Roma"." A second one appears to have been sold at a French auction years ago. Fingers crossed to unite them.

Attached something that just arrived in my hands: Hero of Mongolia Gold Star nr 14 Unfortunately the name of the recipient is not listed in Urnukh's book but I believe I've narrowed it down to 3 possibilities. Hoping to nail this down further in coming weeks/months/years? It took 10+ years of patience to fill this gap in my collection - a few more to go! Pics not great quality - need a new phone.

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A cased Tamara or somebody's color printer got a bit creative? ebay nr 202714664610

Wow, love the miniature!Wow, love the miniature!

Any chance of getting a PDF of this catalogue? Am trying to research some items and getting this would help.