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Photographs Of Recipients Of Soviet Awards/Service Personnel.
I just got a lot of about 160+ Soviet personal file pictures from a German picture collector who said he had no use for such pictures and sold me the entire stack for $80:thumbsup

I am getting good with translation, but I have trouble with free hand and all the crazy military abbreviations. Any translation help would be great. If I am correct these photos come from personal files of the Soviet army?


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desantnik Wrote:Guy on the far right appears to wear an early basic airborne badge.

Jeffrey Meffert Wrote:True. Even non-airforce might have that type of badge. The badge/award I can't figure out is guy third from the right. On the actual photograph it looks more like some sort of otlichnik badge, particularly RKKA solder. At an angle, though it looks like it could be a lenin or ORB, being the right uniform location for one of those. Need to get CSI, CTU, or some other TV investigative team who have magical photographic resolution equipment that seem to be able to tweak a photo so you can count the hairs on a mole from a blurry surveillance cam image.
Might be able to figure out if it's a squirrel or a marmot on the other guy's head...

I thought it was another airborne badge (top row, third from viewer's left;)).

Phillip
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Nice group of awards on this guy :thumbsup

Looks to me like:

Major Tkachenko, Evstafiy Petrovich

Head 2 rate/course (not sure what in this case) Troop Unit 74382

8 April 1948 - Lieutenant Colonel Nikol'skiy

By the way Tkachenko is a common Ukrainian name apparently coming from the word for weaver in that language

Nice catch at 50 cents each if all photos are as good as this one.

Simon
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Maijor served in artillery college.
Lieutenant colonel Nikol'skiy was a chief of 2-nd stage in this college.
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You definitely got a good deal if even half of the subjects are as well-decorated as this example.:thumbsup

Phillip
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The pictures are from the late 40s, 50s, and 60s. Most from the 50s. In a majority of the pictures they have lots of medals:thumbsup:thumbsup

I can post more if you want?
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Another pic


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doomula5000 Wrote:The pictures are from the late 40s, 50s, and 60s. Most from the 50s. In a majority of the pictures they have lots of medals:thumbsup:thumbsup

I can post more if you want?
Yes, please! I love these pictures!
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Guards Major Ivan Ivanovich Kurmanin, signed by the temporary head of the 3rd Section, Major of Administrative Service Sazonov, on 2 August 1950. The stamp is from the __ Commissariat of the Dagestan ASSR.
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Was he infantry or something else?
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