Article about: Here is the result of the research on Order of the Red Star # 3105634, another long service award. Record card Order booklet nr. G-426024 1. Last name: Mamsurov 2. First name and patronymic:
Here is the result of the research on Order of the Red Star # 3105634, another long service award.
Record card
Order booklet nr. G-426024
1. Last name: Mamsurov
2. First name and patronymic: Yury Romanovich
3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel of Technical Service
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1917
6. Place of birth: North Ossetian Autonomous SSR
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1943
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Ossetian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: Since October 1937
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at the time of the awarding: Chief of the Measurements Laboratory of the 4th Section of the Scientific Research Artillery Proving Ground, Main Artillery Directorate
12. Current place of service and duty position: Chief of the Measurements Laboratory of the 4th Section of the Scientific Research Artillery Proving Ground, Main Artillery Directorate
13. Home address of the awardee: Donguzskaya Station, house nr. 06-2, apartment nr. 5, Chkalov Oblast
14: Record of all awards presented:
[Stamp: “Verified by V.L. Vasilyev”]
Names of the orders and medals - Their numbers - Numbers of the documents - Ground of awarding
Combat Merits Medal - 3173118 - Permanent certificate nr. B-744239 - Decree of November 6, 1947
Order of the Red Star - 3105634 - Decree of April 20, 1953
Medal for the Defense of Leningrad - Permanent certificate nr. 31029 - Decree of December 22, 1942
Medal for the Victory over Germany - Permanent certificate nr. D-0249207 - Decree of May 9, 1945
Medal for 30 Years of Soviet Army and Navy - Decree of February 22, 1948
Signature of the awardee: [signed]
I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee:
Chief of the Scientific Research Artillery Proving Ground
Major General of Engineering-Technical Service [signed] /Bolotov/
May 25, 1953
Thank you for posting this one, Roger. I like these long-service awards as much as the combat service awardings.
Some have suggested a softening of the standards, a lowering of the bar if you will, for these awards, over time, meaning too they are somehow less desirable to us as collectors, but I disagree. I think it's really a case of apples and oranges, Red Stars being awarded for two totally different types of services, and a concomitant evolution in the thinking of Soviet Higher Command towards the bestowing of these awards
As the war dragged on I think there was a recognition on some level of the significance of the foot soldier and the scientist. I see this particular Red Star representing this Colonel's life time of technical service in the Red Army. His efforts effected others, his comrades, and enabled the Soviet Army to persevere. To discount these long- service awards as being some how less than earlier awarded Red Stars misses the point. It does a profound disservice to the efforts of so many, for so long, who all contributed significantly in ways far removed from the front lines. This Red Star is symbol of that that recognition, as I see it.
Sorry, rave over. . .
Last edited by Bill Garvy; 04-03-2012 at 08:49 PM.
So on citations belonging to Long Service Red Stars, there is nothing writtn under the "Short, concrete description of the personal combat feat or merits:" section?
So on citations belonging to Long Service Red Stars, there is nothing writtn under the "Short, concrete description of the personal combat feat or merits:" section?
No, there was a citation there (but only for wartime long service awards), but they were often quite generic and just focusing on the officer's qualities and previous achievements.
Order of the Red Star, 3105634, Long Service
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