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    Here we go, a nice series from the Stalingrad Panorama Museum... last pic: Skanderbeg!

    Must be pretty rare for a Soviet to get an Albanian award!

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    I know - not a good pic... looking in close up it looks like (surname) Prodimizva

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    Who are you talking about Christophe? :unsure:

    Podimtseva was General Colonel and was a Hero of the Soviet Union. Here is the list of his awards. :)

    Taking those pictures was indeed very tough!

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    Aleksandr Ilich Rodimtsev (1905 - 1977, Russian: Александр Ильич Родимцев) was a colonel general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1937, 1945).

    He joined the Red Army in the 1920s, and fought in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans against Franco in 1936-37, where he earned his first decoration as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He is best remembered for his role in the battle of Stalingrad, where he commanded the 13th Guards Rifle Division, earning him his second order of Hero of the Soviet Union. Rodimtsev was vastly popular with his troops, and well known for his bravery.

    After the war he was deputy commander of the Eastern Siberian military district, then served as a military attach? in Albania, before again serving as deputy commander of the Northern military district.

    WIKIPEDIA

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    1941 Commanding Officer 5th Airborne Brigade

    1941 - 1942Commanding Officer 87th Guards Rifle Division

    1942 - 1943Commanding Officer 13th Guards Rifle Division

    1943 Commanding Officer 64th Army

    1943 - 1945Commanding Officer XXXII Guards Rifle Corps

    1951 - 1952Deputy Commander in Chief Eastern Siberian Military District

    1953 - 1956Head Soviet Military Mission Albania

    1953 - 1956Military Attach? to Tirana

    1956 - 1960Deputy Commander in Chief Northern Military District

    1966 Inspector Ministry of Defence

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    This question could probably be answered only museum worker. Because the award documents was not specified the metal of order ?

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