Here is Petr Mihajlovich Legchilin from Buda.
He served in the Railway Troops during the GPW in the Battle Of Stalingrad before pushing all the way to Konigsberg and beyond.
In peacetime not only did he receive the Red Banner Of Labour and For Labour Valour but also the Bronze Medal "For Achievements In The Development Of The National Economy" and the "None-Black Earth".
From 1954 until his retirement he worked as a mechanic on the farm "Skreplevo".
Here is Petr Pavlovich Vlasov. A Soviet with a particularly strange group.
Born in Orel in 1892 he was three times awarded with the George Cross in the Great War (4th 3rd and 2nd). The first of which was for sticking 6 enemies with his bayonet. During the Civil War he served in Budennyj's Cavalry. During the famine in the Ukrainian SSR he traded his George Crosses for food for his family.
He then moved his family to the Donbass and became a miner. In the late 1930's he was crushed in a mining accident and was paralysed, pretty much ending his usefulness as a miner.
When the Germans invaded his family was not evacuated and they lived under occupation until he (on crutches) and his family walked all the way to the Soviet line at Stalingrad. During the time of occupation he had to deal with not only brutality at the hands of Germans but also hungry bandits. Vlasov was a very strong willed man!
Vlasov being a cripple was not awarded for any wartime service of any sort but after the liberation of the Donbass mines due to being familiar with the mine layouts and not having much other practical use, he was sent to lead teams into the mines to ensure they were cleared out of "resistance". During this clearing he was awarded the Order Lenin for hand to hand combat leading to a successful destruction of Germans holding out in the mines.
He died of stomach cancer in 1957.
His group consists of;
Order Lenin
Medal "For Restoration Of The Donbass Mines"
George Cross 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Here is the "Mother Of Miners" Evdokija Fedorovna Koroleva.
Born in 1879 she was a figurehead in the Donbass after the war.
She retired at the age of 87!! after 75 years of work in mining (she was even evacuated during the war to mine in Kazakhstan).
Captain of Med/Svc Grigory Sergeevich Khlogkovsky, attested as him 15.8.58 by commander of Military Unit 24443, Lt. Col Med/Svc P. Sidorov.
This is a very very interesting photo. Taken in '58, so assuming ONE of his Red Stars was a 15 years service award and ONE of his MMMs was for 10 years... that still leaves him with an OPW, TWO "real" Red Stars and a "real" MMM... and yet after 16-19 years of service, he was still only a Captain! He had to have had an amazing war record.
Here is Aleksandr Grigo'evich Ivonin Born 1912.
From 1934 to 1941 he worked in road construction and then was transferred into a Military Engineering Unit and then again into a Rifle unit. After being heavily wounded in 1943 he became a military-political instructor. After the war he returned to construction including the reconstruction of the (Donbass) mining industry.
Ivonin died in 1992.
Here is Honoured Citizen Of Surgut Evgennij Nikitovich Zhavoronkov. Born 1926 and died 1999.
A participant of the Great Patriotic War who became a miner after the war. In 1965 he assisted in the organisation of the Surgut Oil Drilling Office.
Tapping oil for a considerable time before receiving the Medal.
Here is Vladimir Pavlovich Harlov, a deputy of Ugorsk Duma. Born in 1957 he has been awarded the medal for tapping Siberia but surprisingly he wasn't in the oil or geological industries. Harlov was a forester. Many trees will have had to be moved during the exploration and construction in pursuit of oil.
