Soviet Medal for the Defense of Sevastopol

[RichieC]

Does anyone here on the forum know and/or have documentation on which date this medal was first actually issued? I have read that it was instituted on 22 December 1942, but was "told" that it was not issued until 1944.

Richie C

[Riley1965]

RichieC,

According to my PMD The Defense of Sevastopol was instituted on 22 December 1942. The time period considered for award is 5 November 1941 to 4 July 1942. It doesn't say anything about when it was first awarded. The document it shows has an award date of 1945.

Does anyone here on the forum know and/or have documentation on which date this medal was first actually issued? I have read that it was instituted on 22 December 1942, but was "told" that it was not issued until 1944.

Richie C

[order_of_victory]

Hi

My Medal for the Defence of Sevastopol has a document dated 1943, is that any help to you?

[Dudeman]

I've seen several Sevastopol medal documents issued in 1943 and 1944 to mainly navy personnel, but also a few army too.

[RichieC]

Thanks for all the replies. If at all possible, I would love to see a scans of 1943 or even December 1942 dated docs or photos...

Kindest regards,

Richie C

[order_of_victory]

Ritichie,

Iam trying to get a scan of my '43 doc, but its not uploading to the forum at the moment.

It will be here soon.

[RichieC]

Ritichie,

Iam trying to get a scan of my '43 doc, but its not uploading to the forum at the moment.

It will be here soon.

No problems... I will wait with patience for your post.

Richie C

[Dudeman]

If you don't want to wait, the McDaniel reference has one awarded NOV 43 on pg. 268

[Guest Rick Research]

Not early but strange. This one issued 16 June 1944 to "Comrade" Ivan Ivanovich Volynkin (apparently a civilian, part of a group already posted here someplace on an earlier thread) was issued by one "Sacheva," as Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Crimean ASSR:

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These were supposed to be issued at Oblast level. I've never seen one from the "Republic" level other than this one.

[order_of_victory]

Heres a pic of my 1943 Sevastopol document, sorry for the wait

Order of Victory

Edited May 15, 2006 by order_of_victory

[Dolf]

RichieC,

Check also this other thread, Post #7: http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=8148

The Doc for my Medal for the Defense of Sevastopol is dated 1943.

Dolf

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Found mine to be 1943 too.

Alanirvine

[Guest Alanirvine]

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Does anyone have any idea why this one is dated 1969?

Thanks,

Alanirvine

[order_of_victory]

Quite a few Soviet awards were awrded retrospectivley to vetrans after the wWar to catch up on missed awards, I have sen a few OGPW I + II issued in the 60's but never a campegn medal

[Guest Rick Research]

AHA!!!!! That's THREE issued by the Crimean ASSR Presidium and ALL three to "Comrades"

http://gmic.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=5...indpost&p=80583

Now Alan's actually prints out the name of the PotPotSSotCASSR-- could we have a zoom in on that name, please?

Mine was only signed by the DEPUTY PotPotSSotCASSR.

[order_of_victory]

So who issued mine then?

[Guest Rick Research]

I cannot read your dark, angled, camera shot. Too bad, because it is some naval SECURITY unit from what I can make out in the dark shadows.

Epssssssson sssssssssscanner. You are alllllllll getttttttttting verrrrrrrrry ssssssssssleeeeeeeeeepy.

I will buy a wonderful Epson Scanner. I will buy a wonderful Epson scanner. I will buy a wonderful Epson scanner....

[Dolf]

Epssssssson sssssssssscanner. You are alllllllll getttttttttting verrrrrrrrry ssssssssssleeeeeeeeeepy.

I will buy a wonderful Epson Scanner. I will buy a wonderful Epson scanner. I will buy a wonderful Epson scanner....

He!he!he!... It should be mandatory for posting clear pics!

I must say I completely agree with Rick on this one, scanners are almost always much better than digital cameras for this kind of detailed views!

Unfortunatelly my HP PSC 2355 all-in-one is simply a disaster for stuff that is not completely flat, the only thing it's good for is for scanning pictures, anything on paper, but not good for 3 dimension stuff!

So I still use my old UMAX Astra 1220P for the Medals, as the result is much better than with my more recent digital camera, a Canon PowerShot A 80. Digital cameras are only better for larger stuff, as for taking pictures of a Display case containing a number of pieces.

Dolf

[order_of_victory]

Rick this is the best I can do, hope it helps

[Guest Rick Research]

There are NO freaky convoluted, complicated, involved "resizing" and resizing the resized resizes with an Epson scanner. YOU make a scan the exact, precise, visible size YOU want, once, done. Bingo.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUNK.

Life is simple with an Epson scanner.

[order_of_victory]

Unfortunatly I only have a cannon, so I take then its to small

[Guest Rick Research]

What you see is what I see.

[Riley1965]

Rick,

What can you tell me about my Sevastopol document. I can't read Russian.

Regards,

Doc

[Guest Rick Research]

Issued 26 November 1993 (!!! ) to Lidiya Mikhailovna Kalyabkina by the 1st Deputy of Sevastapol City Administration.

Now THAT'S what I call a LATE issue!!!!!!

Nice scan, BTW.

[order_of_victory]

Rick you beat my post to it (I had to check the crest was Ukrainian)

Edited May 16, 2006 by order_of_victory