Photographs Of Recipients Of Soviet Awards/Service Personnel.

[Bill Garvy]

Here is a portrait of Guards Major Nikolai Dmitrievich Dolgov, 245th Air Defense Regiment, festooned with Guards Badge, two Orders of the Red Star, an Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, Combat Service Medal, Defense of Stalingrad, missing Victory over Germany, but suspension is present, 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces, and a Polish medal.

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Unknown Guards Lieutenant of Aviation with Order of the Red Star, Guards Badge, Combat Service Medal, 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces, Capture of Berlin, Victory over Germany, and unknown Polish (?) Medal.

Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Arkadevich Lymar with Order of the Red Star, Victory over Germany, campaign medals, and an unknown Polish (?) Medal.[/SIZE]

[CtahhR]

#1 Medal For Oder, Neisse And Baltic.

#2 Medal Of Victory And Freedom 1945.

I'd advise looking at the Polish Medals section.

[Bill Garvy]

Thank you, I have. . .

[Al-muell]

A photograph showing not one, but 3 Heroes of the Soviet Union - all 3 descending from Crimea:
Seytnafe Seytveliev - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сейтвелиев,_Сейтнафе
Abdraim Reshidov - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Решидов,_А...Измаилович
Uzeir Abduramanov - https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Абдурамано...ураманович

[CtahhR]

Here is Captain Technical Service (Air Force Rank not Naval Rating) Ivan Ivanovich Smirnov of the 69th Separate Scout Aviation Regiment on 3rd August 1959.

Long Service Medal "For Combat Merits", Red Star, Red Banner.
Victory Over Germany And Japan and 40 years of the armed forces.
A Medal "For The Liberation For Korea" and a Red Star awarded for service in the 34th Aviation Bomber Regiment against Japan (I found it even with such a common name)

[CtahhR]

Here is Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Alekseevich Surzhikov of the 75th Tank Red Banner Regiment on 27th May 1949.

A Medal "For Combat Merits" for long service. Victory Over Germany And Japan, XXX Years, "For The Liberation Of Korea" and Patriotic War I and II.
The Patriotic War I was for the invasion of Manchuria. No wound stripes despite two wounds during the Great Patriotic War.

[slava1stclass]

Gents,

Gospozha M. I. Andrusyak.

Regards,

slava1stclass

[Al-muell]

Athough not in my possesion, this official photograph shows that the post-1991 uniform reforms weren't too quick.
This is September the 17th (the date was not acoincidence, they say) 1993 and the Polish president says goodbye to the last Russian soldiers leaving Poland.
While the general is wearing a new model Russian uniform, the rest of the personnel wears the old m69/88 Soviet uniforms.

[Al-muell]

An interesting photograph of a Soviet forester with austro-hungarian(?) awards.
Likely from Ukraine.

Photograph not in my posession, currently being offered locally.