Researching Mongolian Awards.

[Bob]

Originally Posted by Nack

At first I laughed--what secrets could Mongolia have? My understanding is that Mongolia is one city (Ulaanbaatar) and a big field with lots of livestock. Then I realized that being situated between the SU and China, I'm sure lots of interesting people and things went through, or over, Mongolia. They probably do have some stories to tell.

BTW, did Monglia ever send "advisors" or the like into Korea or Vietnam during those wars? If they did, I could see why their awards vault is off-limits.

Do a search on jambyn jamyan and you'll find a great "advisor" example.

For the rest, for research it is key to have the order booklet itself with data included in it.

I do have a list of 50 or so SB serial numbers (ever growing list) where i can identify with a degree of uncertainty what the name, role and reason for awarding was. So for those cases, just the serial nr could be sufficient but need the booklet to be 100% sure.