People's Commissariat Of Internal Affairs Identifications.

[desantnik]

Gents,

A couple of very interesting examples to the same person.

Regards,

slava1stclass

The bottom one looks a lot like mine above in posting #8.

[Bill Garvy]

Here is a recent marketplace acquisition. Hardcover Identification Book, #16543, of Guards Colonel Nikolai Erastovich Timashov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Transbaikal Military District. He was promoted to Colonel March 15th, 1939.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]He entered duty position as Deputy Chief of Staff of the Transbaikal Military District October 10th, 1941. Awards listed Victory over Japan, Order of the Red Banner (long-service), Order of Lenin (long service), 20th Anniversary of the Red Army, and another Order of the Red Banner for actions against Japan. His date of birth is listed, December 31st, 1897, as well as the names of his wife, Galina Nikolaevna Orlovskaya, and the names and birth years of his children, Igor (1931), Irina (1937), & Vera (1944). His Tokarev (TT) pistol serial #2980 is listed.
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[Bill Garvy]

Last page with his signature and that of Major-General Shishkarev dated March 20th, 1945.