Badge "25 Years Of Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".

[CtahhR]

Here is a РЭФС 1972 Variation (Rostov Experimental Factory Of Souvenirs And Gift Items).

[Bill Garvy]

Another РЭФС 1972 Variation (Rostov Experimental Factory Of Souvenirs And Gift Items) with document. Can one of my colleagues please tell me the name on this document?

[desantnik]

Another РЭФС 1972 Variation (Rostov Experimental Factory Of Souvenirs And Gift Items) with document. Can one of my colleagues please tell me the name on this document?

Private Vladimir Sergeevich Antipov

[SergioV]

My little badge of the 25th anniversary of Victory with the normal document and with the rare blu document

« 25 лет победы в войне 1941-1945 »
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The Document
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Assigned to:
майор ...... Major
Марухин ...... Marukhin
Иван ...... Ivan
Иванович ...... Ivanovich

Given by:
Министерство Обороны СССР ...... Ministry of Defense of the USSR
Маршал Советского Союза ...... Marshal of the Soviet Union
А. Гречко ...... A. Grechko




The rare Blue Document

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Assigned to:
Инж. полковник ...... Ing Colonel
Орлов ...... Orlov
Петр ...... Peter
Петрович ...... Petrovich

Awarded by:
Министерство Обороны СССР ...... Ministry of Defense of the USSR
Маршал Советского Союза ...... Marshal of the Soviet Union
А. Гречко ...... A. Grechko

[CtahhR]

Here is an example of the "paper" document that really gives nothing away.

Sergeant Ivan Dmitrievich Tkachenko had a rather common name so the story unfortunately stops there.

[CtahhR]

Here is another "dead end" paper example to Major Sergej Ivanovich Tereschenko. A name far too common for so little information to help.

[CtahhR]

Here is another paper example that wasn't quite a dead end.

Junior Lieutenant Fedor Makarovich Suborov is most likely this 1910 born Arhangelsk native. Specially as this document was purchased in Arhangelsk.

[Pobeda45]

I was told, unofficially, that the blue covered document and brass ("heavy") badge were for officers, captain and above...but here's such a doc to a starshina /NCO. Thoughts?

[CtahhR]

I've certainly not seen any official instructions on who got what - it was probably more a logistical issue than anything else. There are piles of documents (of various types) in the collection but I've never really paid any attention to who got which variation. Could it be the more luxurious "hard" documents were distributed to active military units and the basic "soft" ones to the Regional Commissariats?

Maybe one day I'll give them some greater attention.

Here is one of those paper examples to Private Klim Mihajlovich Matjuhov. A little bit of digging shows him as being born in Tbilisi Station, Krasnodar Kraj in 1911.

[CtahhR]

Here is a paper example awarded to Sergeant Zaven Aleksandrovich Ataljan. He was later awarded the OPWI'85.