Here is the dear Leonid Il'ich wearing his bespoke triple suspension.
Looks happy enough with just the three stars to me...... but production quotas had to be met during the "Socialist Competitions" and the state mint produced awards had to go somewhere.....
Guards Sergeant V. S. Ippolitova. She was a combat medic. Five, that's right, five Medals for Valor. She is on the left in the wartime image. As one of only 17 Red Army personnel awarded the Medal for Valor five times, she is in a league of her own.
She is truly a soldier's soldier as embodied in her decision to wear nothing but her five For Valor medals on her medal bar. None of those fluff anniversary medals for her. I like it.
Here is an outstanding Soviet when it comes to the field of medicine, Professor-Surgeon Gavriil Abramovich Ilizarov. Born 15th June 1921, A wartime surgeon who went on to do ground-breaking work on the reconstruction of limbs. With over 600 scientific papers and 194 inventions to his name he continued to be honoured more than 20 years after his death on 24th July 1992.
Some how I don't think he performed surgery fully decorated.
08-24-2013, 04:07 AM (This post was last modified: 08-24-2013, 04:10 AM by Pobeda45.)
This is a photo of Dmitry Alekseevich Komar during his tour of duty in Afghanistan. He's wearing a few obligatory qualification badges, the Guards badge, a Turkestan Military District badge, and an Afghan (?) medal.
Dmitry Komar was one of three people who died during the August 1991 coup by the hardliners and was (somewhat ironically) awarded a posthumous title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
