Alfred Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 This one crossed at the weekend in Ciney (Belgium) my way and I couldn?t resist.An OGPW 1st class with MZPP Red Star and a military merit medal (possible long service).OGPW - 151.983REd Star - 1.845.916Military Merit - 2.910.808regardsAndreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 and reverse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 and the award book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 and his name.looks like: Drugov Aleksei Wladimirowitsch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 Very nice Andreas!How is Ciney on (Soviet) awards? I have been contemplating driving down there, but from what I've heard it's mostly guns and equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 (edited) Yes you are right, there were mostly guns/daggers and equipment. There were only a few low level soviet awards (Red Star, Red Banner of Labour and a few medals) available and they were overpriced. Red Banner of Labour for 100 Euro and Red Star for 80 Euro. One vendor from the Baltic States had a few interesting genuine soviet dagger and Schaschkas, but in my oppinion very expensive. Schaschka was about 1.000 Euro and he had an navy officer dagger without catch button from 1945 for also 1.000 Euro. I didn?t ask for the price of the diplomatic dagger.Except for one seller from Germany who quite collecting and sold parts of his collection there were only a few soviet medals. But this seller had many fakes. This group was the best he had. Nearly all his rarer awards were in my oppinion fakes. Edited April 30, 2009 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb16trs Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Yes you are right, there were mostly guns/daggers and equipment. There were only a few low level soviet awards (Red Star, Red Banner of Labour and a few medals) available and they were overpriced. Red Banner of Labour for 100 Euro and Red Star for 80 Euro. One vendor from the Baltic States had a few interesting genuine soviet dagger and Schaschkas, but in my oppinion very expensive. Schaschka was about 1.000 Euro and he had an navy officer dagger without catch button from 1945 for also 1.000 Euro. I didn?t ask for the price of the diplomatic dagger.Except for one seller from Germany who quite collecting and sold parts of his collection there were only a few soviet medals. But this seller had many fakes. This group was the best he had. Nearly all his rarer awards were in my oppinion fakes.hello, are you speaking about the young seller, on the right in the corridor between the main hall and the small small, which derserves a restaurant? This seller has 98% fakes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 Well well... I suspect Aleksei Vladimirovich Drugov may have been an officer in the Soviet Polar Fleet.I have a documented Red Star 730 numbers off from yours to a Polar long range bomber navigator.Checking the posted dated serials numbers here at GMIC, there was also a MMM 225 numbers off from yours ALSO August 1945.You've either got Polar Fleet or somebody who served against the Japanese. If you try research and nothing comes back from Podolsk, must be navy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) Thank Rick for your interesting reply. Research is ordered. Lets see what comes out.All is possible.OGPW 151.585 - 38. ArmyOGPW 151.852 - awarded 04/1946 Red Star 1.845.186 - awawded 08/1945MM-medal 2.910.186 - awarded 11/1944 Long ServiceLooks like the MM-medal is for long service.best regardsAndreas------------------------------Well well... I suspect Aleksei Vladimirovich Drugov may have been an officer in the Soviet Polar Fleet.I have a documented Red Star 730 numbers off from yours to a Polar long range bomber navigator.Checking the posted dated serials numbers here at GMIC, there was also a MMM 225 numbers off from yours ALSO August 1945.You've either got Polar Fleet or somebody who served against the Japanese. If you try research and nothing comes back from Podolsk, must be navy. Edited May 11, 2009 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 11, 2009 Author Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) hello, are you speaking about the young seller, on the right in the corridor between the main hall and the small small, which derserves a restaurant? This seller has 98% fakes...No, I am not speaking about the young seller.You are right the young seller next the restaurant (2) had only fakes / copy?s. There were another stand with three seller/persons (1). A younger little man and one older person around 60 years. There I bought the group.regardsAndreas Edited May 11, 2009 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb16trs Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 ok! I remember this stand! A LOT of fake stuff too. I remember a nice partisan of the komsomol honour diploma, or a genuine partisan 1948 booklet... otherwise too many questionnable items... Glad to see you picked up one of the rare interesting items! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 (edited) Finally research came back. I will post the rest when the documents are translated. Here are a few parts.He was a Major in the 9th Artillery Divison.Besides his two medals Military Merit and Victory over Germany he has two further medals (??). Not mentioned in his award card.He was from 1936 to 1946 in the Army.He took part in the battle of lake Hasan (see badge on his brest).His nice picture: Edited June 24, 2009 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 and the citation for the OGPW 1st class from 25. April 1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb16trs Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 these are excellent news! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimj Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 It's nice to see a group to a Khasan figther! Can't wait to see the rest of the research. Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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