Order of the Red Banner for Kalkhin-Gol awarded to Pyotr Fedorovich Sulko

[Bob]

Here's a documented Order of the Red Banner nr 7160 - awarded to to an anti-aircraft artillery commander for downing 5 Japanese aircraft at Khalkhin Gol 

 

Date of birth 19.02.1914 Place of birth Ukrainian SSR, Khmelnytsky region, Izyaslav district, Myakoty village; Ukrainian SSR, Kamenets-Podolsk region, Pluzhnyansky district, Myakoty village

 

Place of summoning Izyaslav RVC, Ukrainian SSR, Kamenets-Podolsk region, Izyaslav district Date of conscription 07.11.1936 Military rank senior lieutenant; Major; Lieutenant Colonel; Jr.

 

Political Instructor Military unit 99th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade
376th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion of the 53rd Army, 12th Air Army

 

Awards:

- Order of the Red Star (2)

- Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
- Order of the Patriotic War, I class
- Medal "For Military Merit" Medal "
- For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945"
- Order of the Red Banner (2)
- Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

- Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

- Order of the Red Banner (Mongolian?)

 

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero82390141

 

https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-chelovek_in_kartoteka1562152120

 

Picture appears to show the red banner in wear, plus a Mongolian Khalkhin Gol badge and apparently a DPRK liberation medal and several other awards.

 

 

[Eric Gaumann]

Man, that's nice. Super early ORB.  Those mirror reverses are very pleasing.  Nice set.