Lieutenant General Jambyn Jamyan (1916-2007)

[Auke]

Originally Posted by Bob

* Only a red document for a kind of Znak? Maybe somebody can tell me what it's for?

Sure, when it's not underneath other documents... ;)

[Bob]

Here the little red Znak document - ???

[Bob]

The Vietnamese doc with (I think) Mongolian on the reverse (indicating why/when the Friendship medal was awarded?)

[Bob]

Not often we see Lao doc's/awards

[Bob]

Supposedly a document belonging to a Mongolian "World Peace Prize" (never heard of that before...) - only the document

[Bob]

The Chechoslovakian doc... wonder what this is for?

[Bob]

I won't bother with the interiors of the 20 or so Mongolian docs.

There's also some things issing:
- For sure the wrestling association award
- Range of other documents / ribbon bars / swords / uniforms / etc which may pop up eventually
- For instance: 22048 medal book (labour medal i suspect), Order of Polar Star 17340 in 1975 doc, old style (green) document for KGB badge, an east german medal, various other low end Soviet medals/badges, 3x “world peace prize”, etc.
- Also a sad story: Jamyan had 3 SB's (of which one came with the Soyombo; all 3 not in my hands)... but they were stolen from his house several years ago while he was at a function. At his funeral replacement SB's were held on display while his awards were carried pinned on a cushion by his Border Guard Troop colleagues

Will try to "hack" a JSTOR account so I can research more on Jamyan as a gets quite some hits there.

[Auke]

Originally Posted by Bob

Here the little red Znak document - ???

It's for the "Honorary Badge for the Civil Defense of the USSR".

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Auke

It's for the "Honorary Badge for the Civil Defense of the USSR".

Thanks!

[medals73]

Very very interesting and an important man.

Thanks for posting.

:thumbsup