Socialist Yugoslavia Medals and Orders in Wear

[paja]

Marshal Biryuzov, People's Hero, wearing Partisan Star and Brotherhood & Unity, both first class.

[paja]

Afanasy Beloborodov wearing Order of the War Banner.

[BalkanCollector]

Great photos!

A Colonel and a Lieutenant Colonel wearing a Commemorative Medal of the Partisan 1941.

Edited September 24, 2017 by BalkanCollector

[paja]

Nice photos! I think the second photo is from pre-1982 period so that officer holds the rank of lieutenant colonel. 

[BalkanCollector]

Thanks for the input! Mistake corrected.

[paja]

Don't mention it 
Here's a photo of one more soviet People's Hero, Vladimir Sudets. He's wearing Partisan Star 1st class.

[BalkanCollector]

Nice one! Here's a painting of him wearing a People's Hero Order and a Partisan Star.

[paja]

Excellent, a great portrait. 
A bit larger size.

[BalkanCollector]

Thanks for the bigger image!

Here's an interesting way of wearing Kingdom and SFRY awards. Order of the Yugoslav Crown, Order of Military Merits with Silver Swords, Order of Merits for the People (possibly with Silver Star), Albanian Commemorative Medal and another medal which I'm unfamiliar with. It's porbably something commemorative. 

Here's a video where I've found it. Commemorating of Armistice Day in Paris during the 80's where Serbian Salonica front veterans were representing Serbia as an Ally country.

Switch to 5:08 for the shot of the medals.

 

[paja]

Interesting combination, I think the last medal is something related to the "Association for Preserving the Traditions of the Serbian Liberation Wars Until 1918" (Društvo za negovanje tradicija oslobodilačkih ratova Srbije do 1918).

[paja]

Boris Kalinkin wearing Order of the People's Hero, unfortunately I couldn't find better photos.

[paja]

Vasily Kudryashov wearing Partisan Star 1st class.

[BalkanCollector]

Nice ones!

People's Hero Ante Jurjević Baja wearing a Commemorative Medal of the Partisan 1941, Soviet type.

[paja]

People's Hero Alexander Shornikov

[BalkanCollector]

People's Hero Lazar Lopičić wearing Commemorative Medal of the Partisan 1941, Yugo type.

[BalkanCollector]

Unknown partisans wearing Soviet and Yugoslav type Commemorative Medal of the Partisan 1941. Also a good example of the same person wearing two different types. I can't identify the badge the person on the left side is wearing at the first photo.

[paja]

Maybe he's wearing something like this:


Photo found here.

[BalkanCollector]

It could be. This is the first time that I see this badge. Is it true that it was the commissar badge as the seller claims?

[paja]

Honestly, I don't know but I doubt it. Maybe it was some kind of an award pin or a pin given to the participants of a certain event.
 

[paja]

I think this NCO is wearing that badge from ebay.

[BalkanCollector]

It seems like he is. That's an unusual looking shoulder board.

[paja]

There were two types of NCO shoulder boards. Those on the photo were introduced in 1946 and I think the other type with stars was used for couple of years during the fifties.

[BalkanCollector]

I know about that. I was actually confused because the stripes on the shoulder boards look like the half of them is cut off. Plus I was on my phone during the time I posted my last reply so the resolution wasn't that good. 

[paja]

They do look cut off, especially the left one 

[paja]

Vladimir Pavlov wearing Partisan Star 1st class