Soviet Researched Soviet Colonel

[Riley1965]

Here's the translated service record of Colonel Boris Fedorov. Enjoy!!!

Doc

[Riley1965]

Here's the translated service record of Colonel Boris Fedorov. Enjoy!!!

Doc

[Riley1965]

Here's some more documents...

[Riley1965]

Here's some more documents...

[Stogieman]

So, they put him up for a Red Banner and he ends up with a Military Merit Medal!!

[Riley1965]

Here's the photo copies of the service and award documents in Russian.

Doc

So, they put him up for a Red Banner and he ends up with a Military Merit Medal!!

[Riley1965]

Soviet Colonel's Service record continued

[Riley1965]

I seem to be having problems posting the rest of the documents in Russian.

Doc

Soviet Colonel's Service record continued

[Guest Rick Research]

You could crop off a lot of blank white page margins and gain quite a lot of space that way, trimmed to the text. That's what I do.

So, what have you GOT from his awards etc? Wanna see medals!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure from just his award records card showing him then as plain "Major" what exact insignia he would have worn--

normal "air force generic" without the flying personnel wings on his hat, gold colored shoulder boards? Or "technical" officer silver boards etc? Would he have worn the army motor transport winged steering wheel on his shoulder boards, or the air force winged propellor? Or?...

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And I agree, a RED BANNER downgraded to a MMM was quite a slap in his face and his commanders: wonder if it was a purely arbitrary "quota" situation where because the campaign against Japan was so short, The Top had decreed awards were to not get out of hand?

In any case, he was screwed-- and that is a story indeed!

His long service Red Star on 30 December 1956 is one of OVER 140,000 awarded on that day. I now have quite a few numbers documentable to that mass bestowal, in the 3,413,XXX to 3,554,XXX range.

[Gerd Becker]

Its not unusual, that an order was downgraded, but a downgrade from ORB to MMM is really a slap in the face, like Rick said.

Wanna see the Medals too

[Dudeman]

Maybe I'm just a devil's advocate, but the guy was a LT and the writeup's not very substantial. A CSM is probably about right.

[Riley1965]

That makes sense. One thing I did discover was that it was sold as a brother-sister group, but the service records show Zinaida as his wife not his sister. Thanks for all the input.

Doc