Who/What is Umalatova?

[Dave]

For my two cents...

I'd definately pay more for a Umatalova-awarded HSL than one awarded for pig farming back in the 70's. It's not the rarity (which they would be rarer, since she has given out fewer) but it's the novelty of it. I think it would be very interesting to have in the collection.

I was just scanning a group I picked up recently to put up on my website. It belonged to a General Major from the Ukraine. He retired in the late 1970's, but I guess Miss Umatalova (or is that 'Comrade Umatalova'???) liked him enough to present him with the "Zhukov Centeniary Medal". The document is pretty flimsy, made of card about 2/3 as thick as the original documents. Instead of being a kind of 'yellowish' color on the outside, it's maroon (or pink?) though it still has the lettering like an actual Soviet award. Interesting to note is that the medal inside the document is actually a photograph of a real medal, instead of a drawing.

--Dave