03-28-2016, 04:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-28-2016, 04:12 PM by Henry Sakaida.)
If you collect Soviet/Russian orders and medals, it will go a long way if you learned rudimentary Russian! I know a collector who can look at the biographies of heroes in the encyclopedia of HEROES OF THE SOVIET UNION, and read the biography with 80% accuracy. He can only speak a few words of Russian. He can tell you the person's birthdate, birthplace, the nationality, where he fought, his rank, when he received the honor, when he was demobilized, and when and where he died.
Cyrillic Russian may look intimidating, but it shouldn't be. It's phonetic based like English, and there are only a few weird letters.
The Russian internet is fantastic! You can go to google.ru or yandex.ru
How do you think I was able to find out about people I write about??!!
I have a MAC. I can access the Cyrillic keyboard on it. Then I go to google translate. I type in the Russian word and I get a translation. Accuracy varies, but it's enough for me to get the idea. I go to http://www.warheores.ru and I can select "translate English" and it will translate the entire article for me!
You have a whole new world out there at your fingertips! Sometimes, the medal you have may have belonged to a notable person! I bought a Labor Hero medal (HSL), and typed in the recipient's name onto yandex.ru and was rewarded with a lot of biographical information including photos of the person!
Cyrillic Russian may look intimidating, but it shouldn't be. It's phonetic based like English, and there are only a few weird letters.
The Russian internet is fantastic! You can go to google.ru or yandex.ru
How do you think I was able to find out about people I write about??!!
I have a MAC. I can access the Cyrillic keyboard on it. Then I go to google translate. I type in the Russian word and I get a translation. Accuracy varies, but it's enough for me to get the idea. I go to http://www.warheores.ru and I can select "translate English" and it will translate the entire article for me!
You have a whole new world out there at your fingertips! Sometimes, the medal you have may have belonged to a notable person! I bought a Labor Hero medal (HSL), and typed in the recipient's name onto yandex.ru and was rewarded with a lot of biographical information including photos of the person!
