Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 1. Glory III s/n: 633.159 w/document indicating award granted APR 45.2. Bravery Medal s/n: 1.737.508 w/document indicating award granted JUN 49.3. '85 era OGPW Ist class w/document 4. Victory over Germany medal w/document5. Document dated May 45 attesting to his participation in the underground resistance movement in Poltava (Ukraine) starting in 1942.6. Congratulatory document signed by unit commander for active participation in Vistula (Weichsel, Wisla) and Dembits river crossings. Still intact, but beat up.7. medal w/document 20,30 anniversary of Victory8. medal w/document 50,60,70 anniversary of Armed Forces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 another picture Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerd Becker Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Very nice group, Andreas. I was tempted to get it myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 Due to the serial number of the medal for bravery s/n: 1.737.508 I thought the medalshould be granted around 1944/45. But not in 1949. Any presumptions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 (edited) Any conclusions about the content of the sprabka? Edited April 6, 2006 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 The Valor Medals BOOK was issued in 1949-- that is not when he got the MEDAL. By then there were no privileges any more, so that line was removed. (?) He must have had a Temporary Certificate until then.More please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 and the second part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 and another document, could somebody so friendly to give a short summary of the content? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 and the second part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 (edited) and the document for the order of glory 3rd class; granted in april 1945. Should be interesting to reserarch. Edited April 6, 2006 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 I wonder why he did not get a Partisan Medal...perhaps because "agitation" and "sabotage of the remount service" of the horse-drawn Wehrmacht wasn't considered "armed struggle"--as if he would NOT have been hung if caught!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 tell me more .... This would be my next research project. Maybe he got a partisan medal who knows......What about the 30 and 40 years aniversary medal of the armed forces ? He got the 50, 60 and 70 yearsmedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Sometimes I think I am the only one who can read Russian! Volunteers cheerfully welcomed! From the bottom of post 5 to where the paper continues on post 7--"In July 1942 Com. M.S. Zagorodsky rendered assistance to me in the realization of the tasks of the underground movement in the city of Kiev, warning of arrest and since then backed up liaison/communications with Kiev underground organizations....The Highest Chief of independent groups of the underground organization of the city of KievM.I. Sidorenko"So... he saved the Chief Partisan from arrest, and thereafter was apparently a courier from group to group--hideously dangerous and important work. A personal "character evaluation" from a partisan leader of this importance for this sort of work is amazing.It says something to, that the reference was given-- since EITHER would have been In Big Trouble if the other ended up on a Communist purge list.The stamp on that is something in Ukrainian (with which I am even less adept than my meagre Russian) about a Kiev Industrial Cooperative Union. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_Haynes Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Yes . . . research seens highly advisable . . . yes it does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Just think what would have been lost from this story if the character reference had been tossed!The note in posts 8 & 9 is simply a crude version of the flashy flimsy colored sheets given for participation in battles--in this case, for being at the forcing of the Visla river, liberating the city of Sandomir, and capturing the city of Dembitsa as a Guards Senior Sergeant in a unit identified only by its "Feldpost" stamp.Is his unit's name given on the Victory Over Germany Medal document? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 many thanks Rick, the research of the group will be my next project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 (edited) Here is a map of the Ukraine and the Poltava region. Edited April 6, 2006 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Yes, that is where, from January 1942 up to whenever he was in Kiev by July 1942, he agitated the hosrses in the Stalinovka village partisan group-- BEFORE his important Kiev secret duties.What does his Victory Over Germany Medal document show for his unit when it was issued? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogieman Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 That's a lovely group Alfred! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 7, 2006 Author Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yes, that is where, from January 1942 up to whenever he was in Kiev by July 1942, he agitated the hosrses in the Stalinovka village partisan group-- BEFORE his important Kiev secret duties.What does his Victory Over Germany Medal document show for his unit when it was issued?The stamp of the document is very weak. I can?t see anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rick Research Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Agh. He'd already been discharged from the army by then. It was issued by the Kovalevsky District Veterans Commissariat (written out) and all that is missing from the faded stamp is what CITY this district was in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris S Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 (edited) AlfredHere is a similar group I have...I found it with all the docs as well...a well worn medal bar!Chris Edited April 8, 2006 by Chris S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris S Posted April 8, 2006 Share Posted April 8, 2006 The main doc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 (edited) Senior Sargent Zagorodsky could belong to the 1st Ukraine front under the comman of Konjev.The city of Sandomir (Sandomierz, Poland), and the city of Dembitsa (Dembica, Poland) are lying in thesouth of Poland 100 km east from Krakau near the river Visla (german Weichsel) -blue arrows-.The Sandomir bridgehead operation seems to be a larger operation from 28. July to 29. Augustto crosas the river Visla.To my serial number data base, his Valour medal in the serial number range 1.7xx.xxx could be awardedat that time.His order of Glory is from April 1945, when Konjev starts his Berlin operation. My next project: Research the group Edited April 10, 2006 by Alfred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted April 10, 2006 Author Share Posted April 10, 2006 And the Sandomir bridgehead operation.Both cities are little towns with a few thousand inhabitabts today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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