09-09-2009, 01:30 AM
desantnik Wrote:Semanticly, the first two questions probably cannot be answered exactly. Soviet awards continued to be awarded in the post-1991 era and blocks of awards were given to post-Soviet republics for their own catch-up awardings. Additionally, both categories should best be approached - what are the highest serial-numbered events "encountered" by the collecting/research community.
As to the third question, that too would take seriously digging in the archives. Even if one knew the very highest serial number awarded for long service, among awardings for post-WWII actions are catch-up awards for WWII.
Bottom line, to answer your questions would require years of research in the archives and could probably even then never be 100% answered.
Aha. I thought this might be the case, but I asked anyway in the hope that there would be more data. Thanks.
