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Thanks for the comments!

Roscoe, I took the St. Peter Line overnight ferry from St. Petersburg to Helsinki. After half a day there I took a two-hour ferry ride to Tallinn. My last ferry was an overnight from Tallinn to Stockholm. For those two I used Tallink. I don't know anything about the trip between St. Petersburg and Tallinn. For the trip between St. Pete's and Helsinki I recommend getting to check-in early. The lines are incredibly long, the system is completely inefficient, and people cut the lines all the time without anyone seeming to object. The plus is that the trip on St. Peter Line is visa-free if you stay in St. Petersburg less than 72 hours. Tallink ferries were more efficient and the ships themselves were much nicer. They do not go to St. Petersburg, however.

Thank you, George, for the names and Eric for identifying the booklets! :thumbsup

Any thoughts with the name for the WW2 group? Here are three more renditions of the name from the documents. Bolshunov, Stefan Kuzlich??? :confused: I have to improve my ability to read cyrillic script. Sometimes I can do it, but if it is a name I haven't heard before or another ethnicity (Estonian, Armenian, etc) it gives me a hard time. With the amount of information in the army booklets, I wonder if getting the award record card when I order research is worth it. Everything but the citation seems to be there already. Thoughts?

Ed, that tactic doesn't surprise me. Still, there are more holes in customs than I would have expected. The biggest difficulty seems to be actually buying the medals. It definitely is not worth the effort, overall. Shopping in the Baltic is so much easier.


Thanks,

Alex