WWII Document

Certificate

Today I translated this document for our re-enactment group, so we could use it as a template to create similar certificates for re-enacting purposes.

We are preparing for the ceremony to award certificated to those, who participated in Drive on Stalingrad re-enactment, earlier this October in Colorado.

Here is the translation:

FOR OUR SOVIET MOTHERLAND

USSR

IDENTIFICATION (CERTIFICATE)

FOR PARTICIPATION IN HEROIC DEFENSE

OF CAUCASUS

COMRADE ANDRIANOV

MIHAIL YAKOVLEVICH

BY ORDER OF PRESIDIUM OF THE HIGHEST COUNCIL OF USSR ON MAY 1^ST, 1944

AWARDED A MEDAL

“FOR DEFENSE OF CAUCASUS “

ON BEHALF OF PRESIDIUM OF THE HIGHEST COUNCIL OF USSR, THE MEDAL FOR DEFENSE OF CAUCASUS AWARDED ON 30^TH OF APRIL, 1945

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Position, military rank

And signature of a person, awarding the medal

About the War

The one… WWII.

It has so much meaning to me. Family lost or maimed by it. Granddad’ s memories, granmother’s medals…

I re-eanct WWII Red Army, because I find interesting, because for a split moment of time it seems like I get closer to my grandparents’ youth that was spent fighting.

Comrades

This is me on the left.  I belong to a group in Texas that re-enacts Red Army.

I updated this blog, so if you look to the left, you will see pages named “Family history” that are dedicated to my family members.

I found some interesting clips, check them out:

Documentary footage from blockade of Leningrad (clean up, dead, wounded)