Confused about this Order of the Red Banner...

[Molodes]

Not all fighters of Red Army became participants of the Victory Parade. Some of them have no place on the Red square (approx. 11 mln.) In my opinion, there is no rewarding immediately during Parade. Replacement has been made beforehand. Bearing of awards of the old (screw) types did not correspond to currently in force army regulations. It is bad, when on the main parade of the country, epoch all soldiers are dressed in the different uniform (one in old-fashioned, others - in new, the third - in quilted jackets and leg-wrappings) and wearing different types of same orders. All should be IDENTICAL as a single powerful concentrated force!

[Leaftree]

Realized I never updated the thread when I had the ORB researched.

Decree for this Red Banner:



Decree

Of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

On awarding orders to commanders and soldiers of the Red Army

For the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions at the front during the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, the following are to be decorated:

[…]

With the Order of the Red Banner:

[…]

13. Colonel Nikolai Vasilyevich Travin

[…]

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
M. Kalinin

Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
A. Gorkin

Kremlin, Moscow
May 18, 1943

[Leaftree]

Service record:

Service record

Card nr.

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Travin, Nikolai Vasilyevich
2. Born on: February 24, 1898
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages and level of mastery, except for his native language: German and French with a dictionary
5. Place of birth (according to the current administrative division): Village of Baryshskaya Sloboda, Surskoye Raion, Kuibyshev Oblast
6. Social situation and profession (prior to call-up for the Armed Forces): Serviceman
7. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since: 1940
Party membership booklet nr.: 01790916
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member of the Komsomol since:
Not a party member:
Membership of other parties:
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation: No
8. Education (note the exact name of the educational institution, when graduated, period of education and number of classes or courses in case of unfinished education):
General and special education: 3 classes in 1909, secondary school in 1915
Military education: Accelerated course at Kazan Military School in 1916, Anti-Aircraft Artillery Commander School in 1924, Senior Air Defense Instructor Course in 1931, Advanced Officer Training Course in 1935, Advanced Technical Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Training Course in 1937 and at the Artillery Academy attached to Voroshilov Higher Military Academy in 1953, Higher Academic Course at the Voroshilov Higher Military Academy in 1953
Political education: No

9. Military promotions
By whose order
Order nr.
Date

Colonel
People’s Commissariat of Defense
235/P
Feb 17, 1938

Major General of the Artillery
Decision of the Council of People’s Commissars
Jul 1, 1944





10. Service at the front in the Patriotic War (when, where and for how long): With the Leningrad Air Defense Army, Leningrad Front from October 1942 through May 1945
11. Participation in the Civil War, the Winter War, and other combat actions to defend the USSR prior to the Patriotic War (where, from when to when, month, day, and year): The fighting against the Latvians and Estonians in 1919 and the Finnish campaign from November 1939 through March 1940
12. Wounds and contusions (when, where and nature of the wound): No
13. Biographical certificate series MR nr. 000001-2314, issued on …

14. When (month and year) called up for the Armed Forces, having worked in which capacity and where (name and location of enterprise, kolkhoz, etc.) and by which military commissariat (if called up several times, note consecutively from when to when he served and when he was called up for the last time): Joined voluntarily August 1918 in the village of Surskoye, Surskoye Raion, Kuibyshev Oblast

15. Service in the Armed Forces:

[Stamp: Data until November 1940 come from a prewar service record]

Name of position
Place of service (unit, institution, formation, army, front or district, fleet or flotilla)
By whose order
Order nr.
Day, month and year
Machine-gun team commander
96th Rifle Regiment
Aug 1918

Battery commander
37-mm battery, Northeastern Front
Mar 1919

Chief of the stock of rifles and machine guns
Tatar Brigade, Eastern Front
Jun 1919

Chief of signals and battalion adjutant
2nd Heavy Artillery Battalion
Aug 1919

Chief of signals
Artillery brigade headquarters, Eastern Front
May 1920

Adjutant
Light artillery battalion
Dec 1920

Head of a school
Howitzer battalion, reserve brigade
Feb 1921

Chief of signals
Independent training battalion
Jun 1921

Chief of signals
Independent training battery
Nov 1921

Chief of reconnaissance and signals
11th Heavy Artillery Battalion
Feb 1923

Student
Commander School
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Directorate
3
Jan 1924

Battery commander
11th Heavy Artillery Battalion
16th Rifle Corps
1062
Jan 10, 1924

Battery commander
1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
Leningrad Military District
87
Jul 3, 1925

Battery commander
4th Artillery Brigade
Leningrad Military District
4475
Oct 1925

Temporary battalion commander
82nd Independent Artillery Battalion
Mar 1928

Assistant battalion commander
82nd Independent Artillery Battalion
Revolutionary Military Council
754/198
Aug 1928

Student
Military-Economical Course
Leningrad Military District
96
Jan 1930

Battalion commander
73rd Independent Artillery Battalion
Revolutionary Military Council
84/2 (84/23)
Apr 1930

Student
Air Defense Course, Leningrad
Oct 1930

Assistant battalion commander and chief of the Air Defense Post
73rd Independent Artillery Battalion
Jan 1931

Student
Advanced Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officer Training Course
Mar 1935

Assistant battalion commander and chief of the Air Defense Post
73rd Independent Artillery Battalion
Jun 1935

Student
Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy
People’s Commissariat of Defense
0399, 01809
Mar 1936

Student
Advanced Artillery Officer Training Course at an academy
People’s Commissariat of Defense
01809
Jul 1936

Chief of staff
180th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
People’s Commissariat of Defense
01809
Feb 1937

Regimental commander
180th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
People’s Commissariat of Defense
3012
Jul 1937

Commander of the Artillery
3rd Air Defense Corps
People’s Commissariat of Defense
05172
Nov 21, 1940

Temporary deputy commander
Baku Air Defense Army
Baku Army
092
Jul 7, 1942

Assistant army commander
Leningrad Air Defense Army
People’s Commissariat of Defense
06185
Oct 3, 1942

Commander
Ladoga Air Defense District
Leningrad Front
0048
Jul 2, 1943

Commander
Ladoga Air Defense District
People’s Commissariat of Defense
00155
Aug 8, 1943

Division commander
77th Air Defense Division
People’s Commissariat of Defense
0192
Jul 1, 1944

Commander of the Artillery
Leningrad Air Defense Army
People’s Commissariat of Defense
065
Mar 16, 1945

Acting commander of the Artillery
16th Special Air Defense Corps
Central Air Defense Front
0206
Oct 8, 1945

Acting commander of the Artillery
16th Special Air Defense Corps
Commander of the Artillery of the Red Army
0977
Nov 28, 1945

Commander of the Artillery
16th Special Air Defense Corps
Commander of the Artillery of the Red Army
09
Jan 5, 1946

Acting deputy corps commander
16th Special Air Defense Corps
Commander of the Artillery of the Red Army
0198
Apr 4, 1946

Acting deputy corps commander
16th Air Defense Corps, Leningrad
Central Air Defense District[?]
0263
Jun 19, 1946

Deputy corps commander
16th Air Defense Corps, Leningrad
Ministry of the Armed Forces
0459
Jul 15, 1946

Corps commander
16th Air Defense Corps, Leningrad
Ministry of the Armed Forces
0601
Aug 26, 1946

Commander of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Leningrad Air Defense District
Ministry of the Armed Forces
01017
Jun 25, 1949

At the disposal of the Minister of National Defense of the Polish Republic
Ministry of the Armed Forces
0085
Dec 9, 1949

Assistant commander of the Air Defense Forces
Leningrad District
Ministry of Defense
07212
Dec 17, 1953

Chief of the Personnel Section of the Leningrad Special Air Defense Army
Colonel [signed] /Glukharyov/



Sent to the Personnel Section of the White Sea Military District










Last name, first name and patronymic: Travin, Nikolai Vasilyevich
16. Awards and award dates: Order of the Red Banner in 1945
Medal for the Defense of Leningrad in 1942
Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus in 1942
Order of the Red Banner in 1943
Order of Lenin in 1945
Medal for the 20th Anniversary of the Red Army in 1938
Medal for Combat Merit in 1940
Medal for the Victory over Germany in 1945
Medal for the 30th Anniversary of the Soviet Army and Navy in 1948
Order of the Red Banner on June 20, 1949
17. Stays abroad (when, where and for how long): No
18. Service in the old army, last position and rank: No
19. Service in the White Army or other foreign armies (only note service in foreign armies when the officer wasn’t serving in the Soviet Army at the same time): No
20. Has he been in captivity or surrounded; when, where and for how long (only note escapes separate from his unit): No
21. Has he been convicted, when and by which courts, what for and for how long, has the conviction been retracted (note periods with penal units as part of the sentence): No
22. Registration numbers:
23. Registered where:
24. Personnel category: , reserve of the category
25. Branch of arms: , military specialty nr.
26. State of health:
27. Attended trainings:
28. Place of service and position (or nature of activities outside military service):
29. Family situation and address (note last name, first name and patronymic, wife’s year of birth, children’s names and years of birth, father’s and mother’s name and patronymic if the officer is a bachelor, address of the officer’s family if living apart, address of the reserve officer himself): Married to Yevgenia Nikolayevna Travina, born in 1900. Son Nikolai born in 1921, daughter Irina born in 1921
30. Special remarks: [Stamp: Checked in August 1955 [signed]]

[Leaftree]

Travin, Nikolai Vasilyevich
ТРАВИН Николай Васильевич (1898-1964)

[Marcel Banziger]

Nice Red Banner. Nothing wrong with this style of handwriting on these Red Banners.

[Red Wind]

Nice, interesting to know he's involved with the Leningrad Air Defense Army

[Leaftree]

Nice Red Banner. Nothing wrong with this style of handwriting on these Red Banners.

The nicest engraving I've ever seen. I've often wondered if 'higher ups' got better engraving done or if it was just randomness.

[Marcel Banziger]

I think just randomness because of I have an early Red Banner awarded to a Senior Sergeant with nice handwriting. Awards were already engraved at the mint and then divided over the seperate Fronts and Divisions. So at forehand it was impossible to say who will get which award. I'd say it's just the style of the engraver and some styles we prefer above others.

[VasOnARitz]

It is quite unusual how some recipients had several awards of the Order of the Red Banner. Some had the small white banner indicating “2”, “3”, so on, yet some didn’t have this, and were only engraved on the reverse to indicate another award. Was it all by chance, or was it only certain periods that these would be awarded?

[Marcel Banziger]

I think by chance and by which front they were serving. The fronts which had more awards handed out quicker went through their stacks of awards (each front was provided with awards by the mint). So on some fronts lots of awards were handed out, on some less awards. If no more 2, 3 and upwards Red Banners were available anymore the regular Red Banner will had to do. In other cases the fronts with lots of leftover stock handed out their awards to other fronts with only few awards left, hence the inconsistency of serial numbers sometimes.