Lets see your Soviet Civil Awards Groups

[Bill Garvy]

Orders of Timofei Kirillovich Levchenko, Chief Agronomist of the Collective Farm named after Gerasimenko, Chernigiv Oblast, city of Anisov, Ukraine SSR, February 1975 to June 1982.

 

Order Book (#I120434) dated December 28th, 1977 for Order of the October Revolution, #94090, December 22nd, 1977.

 

Order Book (#Z141231) dated December 30th, 1973 for Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #887732, December 8th, 1973.

 

Order Book (#Zh638631) dated May 3rd, 1971 for Order of the Badge of Honor, #550478, April 8th, 1971.

 

Order of the October Revolution, #94090

 

Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #887732

 

Order of the Badge of Honor, #550478

[nickstrenk]

I have just discovered the topic.I do not have from some complets taken the pictures,It will necessary to take photos.But I can show the complet of awards of my father-Michal Strenk.He was an agronomist in Ukraine,USSR,Semiduby,Dubno district,Rivne region.

The Price of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic

Edited July 26, 2017 by nickstrenk

[nickstrenk]

I decided to add.

[Igor Ostapenko]

Mikulas, great awards and memory !!! 

On 7 במרץ 2016 at 21:20, Gerd Becker said:

Here are some of my ribbonbars. All of them are of the D-profile type and i believe they are all real.

Lets start with what i think is a double Red Banner of Labor and a meritious Labor in GPW medal:

Next up is a slightly strange ribbonbar with a Lenin, Red Banner of Labor, and a meritious Labor in GPW:

This one has a Badge of honor:

Medal for Valiant Labor and Meritious Labor in GPW and Veteran of Labor:

Medal for Valiant Labor:

and this one. Okay, its just a Veteran of Labor Medal but i really like it:

 

I have this ribbonsbar  

[Egorka]

1 hour ago, Igor Ostapenko said:

Mikulas, great awards and memory !!! 

I have this ribbonsbar  

To a Marshal?

 

Edited July 26, 2017 by Egorka

[Egorka]

On 7/3/2016 at 20:20, Gerd Becker said:

Lets start with what i think is a double Red Banner of Labor and a meritious Labor in GPW medal:

I think the first two ribbons are Bravery Medals.

[Igor Ostapenko]

38 minutes ago, Egorka said:

To a Marshal?

 

No, 

to Lt. General . 

( I'm not Soviet Awards collector and take few last medals of this man )

and few not soviet  awards 

This topic about Civil awards and this man was not only  Lt. Gen., mr. Kalchenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine  

[BalkanCollector]

You've got some incredible collections guys. Thanks for sharing!

[Paul R]

You all have some fantastic sets.  

nickstrenk- thank you for sharing your father's medals.  When was his Combat Service Medal awarded?

Igor Ostapenko- I love the foreign medals that the general had.  He was awarded some senior Polish medals.  

[nickstrenk]

If you are intersted,I will give some more information.It is my fathers Combat Service Medal Sertificate.He was awarded as an antifascist-member of resistance in Slovak National Uprising.He fought in the partisane unit Čapajev.I think I would be interesting to create a topic about the badges of Slovak units of resistance.In division there is only one-Partisane unit of Jegorov.My father was Slovak,but we lived in Ukraine-USSR from 1947 to 1966.In 1966 my parents returned to Slovakia-ČSSR.He was also the second cousin of Michael Strank.

https://korzar.sme.sk/c/5718881/serzant-michal-strenk-rodak-z-jarabiny-na-vychodnom-slovensku.html

[Paul R]

Thank you for sharing this information.  Your father had an interesting life.  Did he have World War Two service as well?  Was there a paper citation that accompanied the Order of the Red Banner of Labor?  

Bill Garvy- Your grouping above is amazing!

[nickstrenk]

1 hour ago, Paul R said:

Thank you for sharing this information.  Your father had an interesting life.  Did he have World War Two service as well?  Was there a paper citation that accompanied the Order of the Red Banner of Labor?  

Bill Garvy- Your grouping above is amazing!

My father served in the Slovak Army from 1941 to 1944,he was a driver of a truck in an Artillery Regiment.There are a lot of small photos left.The Slovak Army was fighting against the USSR in coalition with the Nacist Germany.My mother was telling he had also a German Eisen Kreuz.Probably when he was in Slovakia at home on leave the Slovak National Uprising begun and he became a member of resistance.Not only partisans took part in resistance but mainly soldiers of Slovak Army in Middle and Eastern Slovakia begun fighting against the Regime of of Jozef Tiso.There is a lot of info in Wikipedia.

I am repeating the photos of the Order with the Order book-Ordenska knižka.I did not expect my story about my father would be interesting for you.My father was not awarded e.g. with Lenin order.The Order of the Red Flag of Labour is a very common award.

[Bill Garvy]

5 hours ago, nickstrenk said:

The Order of the Red Flag of Labour is a very common award.

Respectfully, I disagree.  Although there were approximately twice as many Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (~1,200,000) as Orders of the Red Banner (~581,000) awarded, the Red Banner of Labor, which was established as the civilian counterpart to the military/long service Order of the Red Banner, remained the highest labor award bestowed.  Only the Hero of Socialist Labor/Order of Lenin and Order of the October Revolution were preeminent, political considerations notwithstanding.

Nick, thank you very much for sharing your father's impressive array of awards, documents, and compelling history!

Edited July 28, 2017 by Bill Garvy

[Eric Gaumann]

On 7/26/2017 at 05:39, nickstrenk said:

 

As a BCXB/VDNKh collector this image floors me.  I'm assuming medal #1 is a gold one.  That's a 'grail' for me.

My collection is not a group to one man or woman but I am proud of it nonetheless.

 

 

[nickstrenk]

6 hours ago, Eric Gaumann said:

 

The gold medal did not belong my father.He was not awarded with this medal.Simply, I added the medal to the collection.It is in a nice condition.

[nickstrenk]

I also have found the photo of the reverse of the VDNKh medals.I want to ask for the better photo of this medal.I have seen it for the first time.Obverse and reverse,please.Many thanks.

[nickstrenk]

I understood.The hanger has to have the blue marine ribbon.

[Paul R]

Bill, the ORBL is one of my favorite orders.  There is something about the rich enamel and blue ribbon that really distinguish it from all the rest.  I love the wear on that ribbon you shared with us. 

[Bill Garvy]

Thanks, Paul, it does have a lot of character and a nice patina...

[Eric Gaumann]

On 8/10/2017 at 12:23, nickstrenk said:

I understood.The hanger has to have the blue marine ribbon.

Avers8 shows it on the same green ribbon as all the other BCXB medals in the 1939-1958 series.

The 'young participant' medal ribbon switched to blue in 1959 and continued until 1991.

A8 could be wrong.  I'd have to check my Russian sources.

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by Eric Gaumann
added A8 image

[Eric Gaumann]

On 8/10/2017 at 12:23, nickstrenk said:

I understood.The hanger has to have the blue marine ribbon.

 

Hi Nick/Mikulas!  I saw that image from the ForumFaleristika thread about VDNKh/BCXB.  We have both posted there at different times.  In my opinion the suspension and blue ribbon is from another award, possibly a gold-grade 1959-65 award.  But the screw base looks odd/different and I'd put that down to there being so many slight variations.

A comparison image if you want to use it.

 

[Bill Garvy]

Documents group of Mikhail Ivanovich Naida

Document for the Medal Restoration of the Black Metal Enterprises of the South dated July 15^th, 1950 by the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Kryvyi Rig Council of Labor Deputies, Kalinichenko, Serial #275422

Order Book (#G850315) dated December 27^th, 1954, Order of the Red Banner of Labor, #313828, December 5^th, 1954

Document for the Medal Labor Victory dated June 20^th, 1946 by the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Kryvyi Rig Council, Fedorov, Serial #Zh0021581

Document for the Medal 30^th Anniversary of Victory, Labor, dated July 25^th, 1975 by the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Kryvyi Rig Council

Document for the Medal 40^th Anniversary of Victory, Labor, dated May 29^th, 1985 by the Chairman of the Executive Committee of Kryvyi Rig Council

Photograph back-signed “To my dear Mother, for memory, from son, March 15^th, 1952, Mikhail”

Official answer from the magazine "Exploration and Protection of Mineral Resources" on his article "To the question on the requirements for prospecting the iron ore deposits in relation to the development of new horizons and mine construction "- to be rejected due to absence of a specificity and large volume of the article, by Vice-Editor I. Molchanov

[Paul R]

Nice score Bill.  Ive not seen this combination before!

[Bill Garvy]

Documents & medals group of Nikolai Grigor’yervich Reznichenko

Document and Medal for the Restoration of the Black Metal Enterprises of the South dated September 27th, 1950 by the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovs’k, Serial #106069

Order Book (#D448345) dated February 6th, 1953 for Medal for Distinguished Labor, unnumbered

 

[new world]

On 7/26/2017 at 08:25, Igor Ostapenko said:

No, 

to Lt. General . 

( I'm not Soviet Awards collector and take few last medals of this man )

and few not soviet  awards 

This topic about Civil awards and this man was not only  Lt. Gen., mr. Kalchenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine  

I love his assortment of foreign awards!