Photographs Of Recipients Of Soviet Awards/Service Personnel.

[deValcourt]

I found this photo on the English-Russia site. By the medals on her left, she is Ukrainian; but, she also has the OGPW on her right.

Context: this photo is one of dozens shown on the English-Russia site of a "hippie fest" somewhere in the south of Russia. Lots of young nouveau Slavic hippies at some music festival. Okay, I was bored and was recalling that I was the only long-haired male I encountered in Moscow when I was there and when the local guys started to grow theirs long, I cut mine off! Anyway, her photo was a nice break.

On a more serious note, there are a couple of other picture series that are actually worth checking out. The first is the following: Unseen World War II Photos - Chill Out Point which has lots of uniforms and early medals. It also has a great selection of photos which illustrate the serious contribution made by the civilian labor force as well.

The other one is for the tank lovers: Soviet Tourists in Germany, 1945 - English Russia (not my favorite, but some interesting pics including of the military field photographers themselves).

NOTE: Do try to avoid clicking on any of the nonsense ads on the sides. It is all just a bunch of hooey on this very commercial site.

Phillip

[medals73]

(Not sure where this belongs, but if so mandated it can be appended to the lost end of an existing thread as the 12,867th post.)

Recently acquired a US press photo of a flock of "Mongolian" labor heroes in Siberia from 1953. I hope their location of this event is more accurate than their "Mongolian" characterization or the English grammar of the caption. I have had no luck in tracking their collective farm, but who knows what the caption writer thought they were transliterating.

The date of the photo is something like 11 April 1954 and it appears to have been published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 May 1954, p. 21 (or so notes on the reverse appear to indicate).

[CtahhR]

I think they mean "Mongol" rather than Mongolian here. I also believe they mean Kurgan and not Kurnan. Kurgan would certainly be the correct location for this sort of collective.

[Lapa]

Ed,

Here is your man. In fact, it seems that he does not have much to do with Siberia and/or Mongolia, he simply happens to be Kazakh (and so are his fellow HSLs) :D

Marc

[CtahhR]

Талды-Курганская область in the Kazakh SSR would certainly confirm that G and a non-Mongolian.

[medals73]

Thanks, all. They do look more like Kazakhs than Mongols anyway.

[slava1stclass]

Gents,

And he defended Leningrad no less!

Regards,

slava1stclass

[Christophe]

Reminds me a Defender of Stalingrad, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, 7 Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, 3 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st class, Order of Kutuzov 1st class... the Army General Issa Alexandrovich Pliyev.
Nice moustache... :rolleyes:

Ch.

[Christophe]

The Army General Ivan Ivanovich Fedyuninsky, Hero of the Soviet Union, 4 Orders of Lenin, 5 Orders of the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov, 1st and 2nd classes, 2 Order of Kutuzov, 1st class, Order of the Red Star, Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class, is not bad either... ;)

Ch.

[medals73]

Yes, such unfortunate face-hair wasn't as uncommon as we'd now like to think it was.