Badge "Veteran Of The 5th Shock Army".

[Pobeda45]

Here are two types of this badge and two docs to a couple:

Timofeyev Mihail Timofeevich
and
Timofeyeva Nadezhda Danilovna

There's a nice speech from Brezhnev on the inside cover of the doc:

"With honor you have fulfilled your duty to the country, to the Party, to history. Motherland thanks you. Your names are forever inscribed into the chronicle of heroic achievements of Soviet people.
...Respect for veterans of historic battles, caring after them is a moral law of our life, law for legal authority, and for every citizen."

[Pobeda45]

..and the two different badge types.

badge 1

[Pobeda45]

..and badge 2

[CtahhR]

Here's her info, He's far too common a name.

[Pobeda45]

Thanks!

As always, some interesting hypothetical questions that keep the interest going.

Did the couple serve together?
Why is the wife's document typed (ie prepared beforehand) but the husband's written by hand?
We may never know--deep research may reveal answers, but it will probably be misdirected on this humble set.

[Bill Garvy]

Document for the Badge Veteran of the 5th Shock Army issued to Sergeant (Medical Service) Mariya Alekseyevna Miroshina dated October 24th, 1975.

[Bill Garvy]

Veteran of the 5th Shock Army, Nikolai Yakovlevich Zaitsev dated April 6th, 1985 signed by the Chairman of the Veteran’s Council, Major-General & Hero of the Soviet Union (#5657), Vladimir Semenovich Antonov, and Secretary of the Council, Guards Lieutenant-Colonel B. I. Shpil’fev