01-02-2013, 10:56 AM
Tommy Wrote:This is stolen from an old thread on here:
" This pinback HSL Star was awarded in 1986 and is part of awesome Chernobyl Nuclear disaster liquidator.Here's seller's description:"Complete Group of 7 decorations and 7 documents for Chernobyl Clean-Up including LATEST TYPE PINBACK Gold Star “Hammer and Sickle” not shown in McDaniel’s “Comprehensive Guide”. Comes with 2 original issue cases and 4 McDaniel authentication certificates. Decorations: Gold Medal "Hammer and Sickle" of a Hero of Socialist Labor, Type 2 Variation 4 with pin back suspension, #20830, in the original issue box, December 24, 1986 issue; Order of Lenin, Type 6 Var. 3, #459687 issued with the star; Order of Badge of Honor, #351827, 1962 issue; Medal for Valiant Labor, unnumbered, 1956; Labor Veteran’s Medal; Medal for Reclaiming the Virgin Lands, Lenin’s Centenary Medal (labor issue). The Gold Star and the Order of Lenin are in mint condition – both are rated at incredible 10 out of 10 by Paul McDaniel. The other awards are in excellent condition.
Documents: hard-covered large certificate for the Title of Hero of Socialist Labor in the original issue box (both the document and the box differ from more common earlier issues); December 1986 order booklet containing entries for the “Hammer and Sickle” Star and the Lenin; order booklet for the 1962 Badge of Honor; hard-covered certificate for the Valiant Labor Medal containing a nice photo of the recipient in his younger years; award documents for the other three medals. Included are four McDaniel authentication certificates: for the “Hammer and Sickle” Medal, Order of Lenin, large document for the Hero Title and the 1986 order booklet.
Awarded to Aleksandr Usanov, who was deputy Minister of “Medium” Machine-Building at the time of the Chernobyl catastrophe. His area of responsibilities was construction of nuclear sites, most likely for both civilian and military purposes. Usanov was among the very first of the Moscow nuclear management to fly to the site of the disaster. He arrived there on May 1, 1986 after supervising the previously scheduled launch of the Ingalinskaya Nuclear Station in Lithuania. By then the radiation level reached at the devastated Chernobyl Station reached 17 thousand Roentgens per hour, an instantly lethal dose for all living creatures. Usanov became the chief of the ad-hoc central headquarters for “eliminating the breakdown” (a rather euphemistic term coined in Moscow to conceal the scope of the disaster). For his heroic work Usanov was made Hero of Socialist Labor on 24 December 1986.
His Hero of Socialist Labor citation very much resembles the Hero of Soviet Union citations for military heroism. It reads, for “valor, selfless action, and heroic labor shown during the elimination of the breakdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station and liquidation of its consequences”. "
Tom,
I believe that is the one group I was refering to earlier, but could not find :thumbsup
Marc
