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    Dear fellow collectors and military history enthusiasts,

    For several years I am trying to create a database of the recipients of XX years of RKKA medal.

    This award is very unique not only because it was the very first Soviet medal established, but also because relatively low number of recipients - little over 37.000. Many of them were killed during WWII, some of them were eliminated by Stalin's repressions and good number of them made it to the highest military ranks - Generals and Marshals.

     

    Up to this moment I have around 19200 names of the recipients with corresponding medal numbers. I have big database of documents including app 1150 images of medal books and over a thousand of Award Cards with numbers.

     

    Most of the images from Russian content internet are already in my database. However few hundreds documents were sold in Western market and I only have a couple of dozens of their images. 

    If you guys have in your possession any images of this medal documents, I would greatly appreciate if you can share them with me by displaying them in this topic or by emailing them to me.

     

    I would like to post some of the images of this amazing document and hope you will add more.

    Thanks in advance.

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    On 05/11/2024 at 13:18, Alfred said:

    Here are a few documents from my database.

    few documents fom my databse. Number 2026 ist actually in my collection.

    Andreas

     

    Hi Alfred,

    Thanks a lot for sharing those images with me and other gentlemen! Two of those I have had in my database before, but they were made in different time, here they are.

    However image of female's document is a real treasure! Congratulations on having this gem in your collection!

     

     

     

     

     

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    On 05/11/2024 at 13:54, Alfred said:

    How rare are documents to female recipants?

    Andreas

    Actually, documents to female recipients are very rare. The number of female recipients is small, less than a hundred were awarded to ladies. And only about a dozen documents I have seen so far. One of them I showed in the first post (number  40). Here is another female document. 

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    On 05/11/2024 at 16:07, Alfred said:

    Filippow Rodion Iwanowitsch, Major - Commander of the border-troops of the NKWD of the Ukrainian SSR.

    Very interesting piece of history. According to Soviet archives Major Filippov was a head of separate NKVD borderguard unit of the South-Western front and he was lost in action in 1942. Most likely was killed and his awards got in possession of German officer.

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    Here is the history of the borderguard unit.

     

    https://coollib.com/b/478377-aleksandr-ilich-fuki-byil-stavshaya-legendoy-otdelnaya-kolomyiyskaya-pogranichnaya-komendatura-v-boy__/read

     

    I have bought this from a german person, who said a relative brought this from the war back.

    Sadely the little suspension was missing, only the screrwplate with number and the big large suspension was in the group (see picture).

    Andreas

     

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    Here is the 20 Years document.

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    Record card

    1. Last name: Khazov

    2. First name and patronymic: Pyotr Fyodorovich

    3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel

    4. Sex: Male

    5. Year of birth: 1899

    6. Place of birth: Village of Verkhnyaya Gorna, Chobsara Raion, Vologda Oblast

    7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1922

    8. Education: Elementary

    9. Nationality: Russian

    10. Since which year in the Red Army: March 1919

    11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the Chemical Service of the 10th Air Army, 2nd Far Eastern Front

    12. Current place of service and position: Chief of the Chemical Service of the 10th Air Army, Far Eastern Military District

    13. Home address of the awardee: Otani Station, South Sakhalin

     

    14. List of all awards received:

     

    Name of the order or medal

    Serial number

    Number of the document

    Ground of award

    Medal for the 20th Anniversary of the Red Army

    4082

    Not received

    Decree of February 22, 1938

    Order of the Red Banner

    157014

    Temporary certificate nr. 152741

    Decree of November 3, 1944

    Order of Lenin

    31908

    Temporary certificate nr. 184882

    Decree of February 21, 1945

    Order of the Red Star

    1639520

    Temporary certificate nr. Z-252038

    Order of the 2nd Far Eastern Front nr. 012/N of August 29, 1945

    Medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945

    /

    Permanent certificate nr. A-00055297

    Decree of May 9, 1945

    Medal for the Victory over Japan

    /

    Permanent certificate nr. B-067989

    Decree of September 30, 1945

     

     

     

     

     

    Signature of the awardee: [signed]

     

    I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

     

    Chief of the Personnel Section of the 10th Air Army

    Colonel [signed] /Denisov/

    May 16, 1946

     

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    Record card

    1. Last name: Travin

    2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Vasilyevich

    3. Military rank: Major General of the Artillery

    4. Sex: Male

    5. Year of birth: 1898

    6. Place of birth: Village of Baryshskaya Sloboda, Ulyanov Oblast

    7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1940

    8. Education: Secondary

    9. Nationality: Russian

    10. Since which year in the Red Army: Since August 1918

    11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Commander of the Artillery of the Leningrad Air Defense Army

    12. Current place of service and position: Commander of the Artillery of the Leningrad Air Defense Army

    13. Home address of the awardee: 10 Stremyannaya Street, apartment 14, Leningrad [crossed out: 6 9th Admiralty Embankment, apartment 2]

     

    14. Record of all awards received:

     

    Name of the order or medal

    Serial number

    Number of the document

    Ground of award

    Medal for the 20th Anniversary of the Red Army

    -

    Permanent certificate nr. 014856

    Decree of February 22, 1948

    Medal for Combat Merit

    3505

    Permanent certificate nr. 003412

    Decree of April 11, 1940

    Medal for the Defense of Leningrad

    -

    Permanent certificate nr. I-12673

    Decree of December 22, 1942

    Order of the Red Banner

    62257

    Temporary certificate nr. 159336

    Decree of May 18, 1943

    Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus

    -

    Permanent certificate nr. P-007610

    Decree of May 1, 1944

    Order of the Red Banner

    138753

    Temporary certificate nr. 033817

    Decree of November 3, 1944

    Order of Lenin

    31189

    Temporary certificate nr. 126467 (lost)

    Decree of February 21, 1945

    Medal for the Victory over Germany

    -

    Permanent certificate nr. 00012988

    Decree of May 9, 1945

    Order of the Red Banner

    315220

     

    Decree of June 20, 1949

     

     

     

     

     

    Awarded which order of medal

    Date of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

    Awarded for what

    Medal for Courage

    Decree of November 17, 1945

    For the fighting with the German invaders

    Order of Kutuzov, 2nd Class

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    Travin Nikolai Vasilyevich (1898-1964) Major-General of  Artillery. ______ _______ __________.jpg

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    22 hours ago, Leaftree said:

    Record card

    1. Last name: Travin

    2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Vasilyevich

    Thank you very much for sharing award cards of Hazov and Travin. Here is another document of Travin for his early Military Merit medal awarded for his actions during Soviet-Finnish War.

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    Few more documents for this beautiful medal...

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    6 hours ago, Alfred said:

    Savonenkov, Grigorii Mikhailovich (1898 – 1975)

    Colonel-General of Quartermaster Service

    (Григорий Михайлович Савоненков)

     

    Got the 20 Years RKKA medal

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    Thank you Alfred. I have his document.

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