Soviet Order for Service to the Motherland

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Intresting list Dave

Can anyone explain why these two 86497 and 106081 appear to be awarded on hte same day

Order of Vicotry

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Intresting, the end is nigh, get rid of all the spare awards

Order of Victory

[Ed_Haynes]

Still waiting, after a LONG time, for research word (or not) on mine -- 3rd class, 58814 -- P-E-N-D-I-N-G.

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[alanirvine]

Dave,

I have a 3rd class, #86,739 with a COA from PMD. Don't know if you can use it or not but I do.

Alan

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[alanirvine]

Dave,

Actually, I don't have a clue about how to go about that and what the cost would be.

Actually, I have a whole bunch of Orders that I would be interested in doing.

Alan

[Mondvor]

Dave, I have images of several documents for 3rd class "crab" with s/n above 70.000. I believe that they are original. If you are interested I can post the pictures.

[Mondvor]

Intresting list Dave

Can anyone explain why these two 86497 and 106081 appear to be awarded on hte same day

Order of Vicotry

This situation is true not only for "Service to Motherland" order, but for many other orders as well. Here is a very brief explanation.

Orders were given to recipients in their units. Certain groups of awards were sent to different Military Districts. For example Far Eastern Military district got the numbers from 20.000 to 25.000. At the same time North Caucasian Military District got the numbers from 35.000 to 40.000 and Kiev Military District received the ranges from 40.000 to 50.000. When the Award Decree came out (for example on February 23, 1980) all those districts issued the numbers from their ranges at the same time.

Same thing is for October Revolution, Friendship of Nations and other orders.

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[Mondvor]

OK Dave! But first I want to post the highest number I've ever seen with a document. I'm not sure if it's original or not. The Decree data is the same as in Novruzov's orderbook. Serial numbers of both order and orderbook are pretty close to those in Novruzov's group. Could be real and could be fake.

First page.

[Mondvor]

Second page.

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What was it awarded for?

Order of Victory

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[Mondvor]

Many thanks Dave

Now we learned an important thing. Some "crabs" with 6-digit numbers were issued. Cool! Shevchenko's unit was located in Chita region. This region is on South-Eastern part of Russia and borders with China and Mongolia.

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[Mondvor]

For Military Merit medal Shevchenko probably got separate medal book.

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[Mondvor]

Dave, really cool citation. This guy was a highly trained professional of air-defence business.

But who is Anatoli?

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[Mondvor]

Oh, I see. But what is the number of his order? It is obviously another Shevchenko, not the one received 107949 "crab".

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