Medal Za Odre, Nyse i Baltyk for a Soviet service member

[SovPha]

Medal "for the Oder, the Neisse and the Baltic region battles" (see information below) with the award document for a Soviet service member (Ivan Ivanovich Pryshedko, YOB 1926). Ivan Ivanovich was the recipient of the medal "Victory over Germany" and Medal "For Courage" - https://bit.ly/3ceB3eu

The Medal Za Odre, Nyse i Baltyk (Medal "for the Oder, the Neisse and the Baltic region battles") was instituted on October 26th 1945 by the Krajowa Rada Narodowa (Council of State PNR) to award those who directly participated in combat against the German Army for the release of Poland and the restoration of its old boundaries on the rivers the Oder, the Neisse and the coast of Baltic sea.

The decoration was awarded to all soldiers and citizens, who took part in combat on Oder, Neisse and Baltic Sea in the period from March and April 1945. The borders of Poland on the Oder (bed), Neisse (Nisse-Luzhitskoy) and Baltic sea were reestablished by the Potsdam conference in 1945. Also awarded were the defenders of Polish coast during the defensive war in September 1939 and foreign citizens that had in any degree participated in re-establishing the Polish borders. A total of 321975 medals were awarded.

The bronze round medal measures 33 mm in diameter. A small eagle placed at the top of the medal, holds a roll in its claws with on it an image of the map of Poland, with its main rivers and the city’s Warsaw (W), Gdansk (G), Shchetsina (S) and Vrotslava (W). The map is framed by narrow border. Around the map is the inscription: "ZA ODRE - NYSE - BALTYK" (for Oder, Neisse, Baltic).

On the obverse there is the inscription: "RP-ZWYCIEZCOM-III.1945-IV.1945" (to the victors) in underlined words . There is a second version of medal, which differs from the first in terms of the fact that on the front side of the medal on the map there are no designations of the main Polish cities.

The ribbon is 35 mm and dark blue with two longitudinal stripes of white-blue along the sides. Width of longitudinal stripes is 4 mm.|

I wish everybody a great alter afternoon.

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SovPha

Edited March 1, 2020 by SovPha

[BalkanCollector]

Really enjoying your posts! Very nice medal and even nicer document with all the graphics.

[PREM]

Very nice !

[SovPha]

On 02/03/2020 at 20:39, BalkanCollector said:

Really enjoying your posts! Very nice medal and even nicer document with all the graphics.

Thank you very much. Your posts are also awesome. 

On 02/03/2020 at 21:35, PREM said:

Very nice !

Thx.

[chechaco1]

The Oder-Neisse-Baltika medal shown is not uncommon. This is the second type of medal.

The first one looked different - the eagle was large, the map had no cities, the eye of the medal was different.With a total circulation of more than 320,000 of this medal, this first type with a large eagle and a map of Poland without cities produced by Grabsky is only 7,550 pieces. and it was mostly handed over to Soviet servicemen, so it is relatively rare in Poland.

The type of this medal in the photos of the cavaliers is clearly distinguishable. On the poster depicting the awards of the People's Poland, the medal "ONB" is of the first type.

[Lukasz Gaszewski]

11 minutes ago, chechaco1 said:

"On the poster depicting the awards of the People's Poland, the medal "ONB" is of the first type."

So are the remaining two medals as well.

 

An interesting award booklet. The name of the recipient and remaining data is typed in the Russian alphabet and the name of the official suggests he was not Polish either - a good example of the conferment of a medal handed over to the Soviet part. The year of award is 1950, so relatively late. I saw a similar example of such handing over in the opposite direction - a booklet (or better said a temporary certificate) of the Soviet Medal for Victory over Germany to a Polish soldier signed undoubtedly by a Polish official.

[chechaco1]

The practice was such that the medals were initially awarded with temporary certificates, which were then exchanged for permanent ones. The presentation of medals is mutual, some of the awards were passed to the opposite party for presentation. Of course, the documents were signed by a representative of the performing party of delivery - the commander of the Soviet military unit or a Polish official. Sometimes even by the embassy.

[chechaco1]

II type, Grabsky