XX years of Red Army medal documents

[Mondvor]

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.

[Alfred]

Here are a few documents from my database.

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

Andreas

[Alfred]

How rare are documents to female recipants?

Andreas

[Alfred]

Here is a complete group. Group came from a german soldier (estate).

 

[Alfred]

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

[Mondvor]

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!

 

 

 

 

 

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. 

[Mondvor]

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.

[Alfred]

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

 

Ukas Grenzsoldaten 1936.docx

Here is the 20 Years document.

[Alfred]

Here is another lady.

[Leaftree]

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 10^th Air Army, 2^nd Far Eastern Front

12. Current place of service and position: Chief of the Chemical Service of the 10^th 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 10^th Air Army

Colonel [signed] /Denisov/

May 16, 1946

 

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 9^th 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

[Mondvor]

On 07/11/2024 at 12:24, Alfred said:

Here is another lady.

Thanks a lot, but this is a different medal. It is not XX years of Red Army, but Partizan medal document.

[Mondvor]

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.

Few more documents for this beautiful medal...

[Alfred]

Savonenkov, Grigorii Mikhailovich (1898 – 1975)

Colonel-General of Quartermaster Service

(Григорий Михайлович Савоненков)

 

Got the 20 Years RKKA medal

[Mondvor]

6 hours ago, Alfred said:

Savonenkov, Grigorii Mikhailovich (1898 – 1975)

Colonel-General of Quartermaster Service

(Григорий Михайлович Савоненков)

 

Got the 20 Years RKKA medal

Thank you Alfred. I have his document.

[Alfred]

Great doc, I have only one of his awards.

 

Andreas

[Mondvor]

I want to show the medal from my collection. Unfortunately, it came without document, but I was able to find the recipient's name - Kudryavtsev Petr Pavlovich, Medical officer of Baltic Fleet Naval Air regiment.

[Alfred]

Thanks for sharing.

[Ferdinand]

Excellent topic, thanks for sharing!