Medal "For The Defence Of The Caucasus".

[desantnik]

Impossible to say definitively since numbering was done at the unit level, but I believe it is of more recent manufacture...

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal for Defense of the Caucasus awarded to Lieutenant-Technician Grigory Spiridonovich Machitadze on August 4th, 1945 and signed by Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant General Andreyev Matveevich Andreev, Commander of the 125th Rifle Corps, Serial #R048947.

Document for the Medal for Defense of the Caucasus awarded to Senior Lieutenant Pyotr Iosifovich Buchovsky on January 14th, 1945 and signed by Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General Konstantin Andreyevich Vershinin, Commander of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Serial #P015959.

Document for the Medal for Defense of the Caucasus awarded to Red Fleet Marine Fedor Ustinovich Lavrenchuk on July 22nd, 1945 and signed by the Commander of the 384th Marine Corps Black Sea Fleet and Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Fedor Kotanov, Serial #R023799.[/SIZE]

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus issued to Sergei Danilovich Tomozov on December 7th, 1946, by the Commander 45th Independent Sivashskaya Order of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Brigade, Major General Bobrakov, Serial #U016589.

Document for the Medal for Defense of the Caucasus issued to Captain Victor Mikhailovich Titov dated April 28th, 1945, 15th Assault Engineers, Colonel Barash (?), Serial #Kh014782.

Document for the Medal for Defense of the Caucasus issued to Nikolai Nikolaevich Belopol’skiy dated December 15th, 1945, 104th Medical Evacuation Point, Colonel Pukoss, Serial #T007442.

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[CtahhR]

Here is probably the most pleasant to handle Soviet Campaign Medal I have yet encountered. The recipient had coated the ribbon in plastic (which has now perished) and has lovingly looked after the metal. All original with two piece Kolodka.

K#012381 awarded to "Red Army Soldier" (Although not in the Red Army) Konstantin Gavrilovich Adamov by the Commander of the 8th Moto-Rifle Regiment Of Internal Troops Of The NKVD on 4th October 1944.

[CtahhR]

A bit of poking about reveals his wartime exploits.

Awarded a Medal "For Combat Merits" and OPW2'85.

The Medal was a late 1945 proposal for a wound in the first days of the war. Tbilisi was exceptionally slow processing these wound awards (often 2-5 years!)

Red Army Soldier Adamov was seriously wounded defending the Railway station at Hristinovka as a driver of 3rd Platoon, 2nd Rifle Company, 5th Armoured Tank Battalion, 30th Armoured Tank Regiment, 15th Division, 12th Army on 30th July 1941. When he had recovered, although non-partisan became a member of the Destroyer Anti-Tank Battalion of the 8th Moto-Rifle Regiment of the NKVD.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Vagan Tigranovich Vartazarov on October 5th, 1944, hand signed by the Chairman & Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR, Serial #B000127.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Ol’ga Semenovna Nekhaenko on February 17th, 1968 by the Lenin Regional Military Commissariat of Kiev, Colonel Varganov, Serial #U002381.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Guards Senior Sergeant Vasiliy Malakhovich Stepchenko dated April 25th, 1945 by the Commander of the 4th Aviation Army and Hero of the Soviet Union (#3869) Colonel General (later Marshall) Konstantin Andreyevich Vershinin, Serial #N030062.
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[Bill Garvy]

Defense of the Caucasus, voenkomat variation

[CtahhR]

Here is С 031552 awarded to Romual'd Sergeevich Tarasov by Vitebsk Oblast Military Commissariat on 13th May 1947.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Ali Husein Hajiguli Oglu Kerimov (Azeri) dated October 25th, 1944 by the Chairman & Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR, Serial #A006997.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Zinaida Fedorovna Kolmukova dated June 4th, 1987 by the Kiev Regional Military Commissariat of Odessa, Colonel Danilenko, Serial #U017404.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Guards Sergeant Ivan Iosifovich Ryabikin issued January 9th, 1945 by the 1st Guards Assault Engineer Mogilyov, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Kutuzov, Reserve High Command, Guards Colonel Vizirov, Serial #O014624.[/SIZE]

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Captain Ivan Vasil’evich Kuksov dated October 4th, 1944 by the Commander of the, 2nd Mine Sweeping Brigade, Black Sea Fleet, Captain, 2nd Rank, Katuntsevsky, Serial #O011274.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Sailor Anton Antonovich Stepanenko on February 23rd, 1945 by the Commander of the 45th Order of the Red Star Aviation Base, Air Force (of the) Black Sea Feet (ВВС ЧФ), Colonel Naisudaev (?), Serial #L019632.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Alexei Petrovich Lyutiy dated August 5th, 1945 by the Commander of the 18th Independent Aerial Surveillance Alert and Communication Company, a Senior Lieutenant, Serial #S022564[/SIZE]