06-14-2012, 08:41 PM (This post was last modified: 06-14-2012, 08:54 PM by medals73.)
Junior Sergeant Nikolai Vasilyevich Bazhanyuk, 86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade of the Air Defense Forces
Quote:Record card
Record card
Order booklet nr. Zh-902885
1. Last name: Bazhanyuk
2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Vasilyevich
3. Military rank: Sergeant (in the Decree his rank is given as Junior Sergeant)
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1952
6. Place of birth: Village of Krasnogorka, Popelnya Raion, Zhitomir Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Komsomol
8. Education: 10 classes
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: 1970
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position at the time of the award: Deputy platoon leader and commander of a missile launcher in military unit nr. 01442
12. Current place of service and position: Deputy platoon leader and commander of a missile launcher in military unit nr. 01442
13. Home address of the awardee: Military unit nr. 01442, city of Baku
14. Record of all awards presented:
Names of the orders and medals Their numbers Numbers of the documents Ground of award
Medal for Combat Merit Unnumbered Zh-902885 Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 12, 1972
Signature of the awardee: [signed]
I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):
Chief of staff of military unit nr. 01442
Major [signed] /Mironyuk/
November 14, 1972
Quote:Award sheet
[Stamp: “Medal for Combat Merit”]
Award sheet
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Bazhanyuk, Nikolai Vasilyevich
2. Military rank: Junior Sergeant
3. Position and unit: Deputy platoon leader in the 86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade of the Air Defense Forces
Nominated for: Medal for Combat Merit
Permanent home address (of his family):
Short, concrete description of his feat:
He has been on a mission abroad since May 1971. He is disciplined and sophisticated and devotes himself to carrying out his service duties with a high sense of responsibility. He is a “Specialist, 1st Class” and a “Distinguished Student in Political and Combat Training”. His materiel is in a constant state of combat readiness.
Conclusion: For carrying out his international service duties in an exemplary manner he deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.
Commander of the 86th Surface-to-Air Missile Brigade
Colonel [signed] /Tselomudry/
July 27, 1972
He deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.
Commander of the 28th Division of the Air Defense Forces
Major General of the Artillery [signed] /Rytov/
July 28, 1972
He deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.
Deputy chief military advisor for air defense affairs of the Soviet Forces in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Major General of the Artillery [signed] /Zakharchenko/
July 28, 1972
He deserves to be awarded the Medal for Combat Merit.
Deputy chief military advisor of the Soviet Forces to the Armed Forces of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Lieutenant General [signed] /Zvartsev/
July 30, 1972
What I find unusual here is the fact that the attachment is an old-style brass one. Is it a replacement? Because to me it does not look correct for the era.
Al-muell Wrote:What I find unusual here is the fact that the attachment is an old-style brass one. Is it a replacement? Because to me it does not look correct for the era.
I'm certainly not an expert on suspensions, but I can guarantee that brass suspensions were handed out this late. For instance, both of my 1969 CMM's to Bulgarians and my 1971 CMM to a Mongolian are on a brass suspension.
I think it could be very easy to become more fixated on suspensions than anyone at the time ever was. Suspensions are just that, suspensions. I suspect they were seen as functional items, not as objects of manic obsession.
medals73 Wrote:I think it could be very easy to become more fixated on suspensions than anyone at the time ever was. Suspensions are just that, suspensions. I suspect they were seen as functional items, not as objects of manic obsession.
Ed, I agree with your view on functionality. However, there's hardly a "manic obsession" here. "Al-Muell" raises a valid question: is this medal actually Banzhanyuk's, or an orphan piece attached to a document? Since it's unnumbered, we'll never know. I'm sure there are cases when a suspension can be used to distinguished a "filler" or replacement piece from the original with some certainty. Whether you consider the distinction between "filler" and "original" important in these cases is another issue.
I tend not to feel at all comfortable with the idea of a "filler". Not quite faking, but, for me, close enough. That is just my view, though, and others have different thresholds. There is "good" behavior, there is "evil" behavior, and a really really broad "gray" area in between, and "fillers" fall there, I guess. Sadly, with most Soviet items, there is no easy way to tell. All I know is that the ragged medal and the ragged book came together from a reliable source, before the research was done. I'm not even sure DNA testing would answer the question. As far as I am concerned, I have no problem with this, but a "?" will always hang. A "?" not a "!!!!!!!!!!".
medals73 Wrote:I tend not to feel at all comfortable with the idea of a "filler". Not quite faking, but, for me, close enough. That is just my view, though, and others have different thresholds. There is "good" behavior, there is "evil" behavior, and a really really broad "gray" area in between, and "fillers" fall there, I guess. Sadly, with most Soviet items, there is no easy way to tell. All I know is that the ragged medal and the ragged book came together from a reliable source, before the research was done. I'm not even sure DNA testing would answer the question. As far as I am concerned, I have no problem with this, but a "?" will always hang. A "?" not a "!!!!!!!!!!".
Agreed. I remember reading your comments to this effect elsewhere, and they influenced me in deciding not to "fill-in" the holes in groups in my collection.
