Finnish trench art book Muisto syväriltä interesting small book of Finnish soldiers explains their trench arts etc…
print year 1981 contains 169 pages, lots of pictures mostly black and white ones…
in back pages there’s also a english translation and explanation of these items…
well fairly good book but too much black and white pictures and feels bit rushed together…
but even better there’s a new Finnish trench art book coming Käsin ja sydämin Sota-ajan puhdetyöt release date should be 15.4.2019…
looks promising i think i gonna get this one…
Santa was very generous this year That’s what he brought: massive, complete grouping of medals and documents which used to belong to one man- Guards sergeant major (starshina) Alexandr Mikhailovich Molodtsov.
Born in 1918 in a city Kungur-located between Perm and Ekaterinburg was educated school teacher, graduated from Kungur pedagogical school but did not worked in a school for a long time. At the age of 21 was drafted to Red Army on 19 September 1939, soon after the War in Europe has begun. After basic training was sent few thounands kilometers east-near the border with Japanese occupied Chinese territory and attached to a 82nd motorized-rifle division, to a unit which was freshly combat experienced in border battles against Imperial Japanese Army, including battle of Khalkin-Gol. Division was still held in Baikal military district when 22nd June 1941 came.
It was 5th October 1941 when division was mounted on trains and started 3 weeks long journey to the west. Arrived and was attached to 5th army at defense perimeter around Moscow on October 25th. Participied in the defnse of Soviet capital all untill December in the area of Kubinka when part of Molodtsov’s regiment-250 motor-rifle regiment was detached and again formed as 250 Airborne regiment under command of col. Soldatov.
And here another story begins, but let’s skip few years and let me tell you something about first medal related thing-small letter-response from high command which Molodstov received in November 1944 after his question why he did’t get a medal for Defense of Moscow-someone from structure of Red Army informs him that he can get a medal basing on note from service records or ID book, if I understand correctely. I didn’t found any confirmation that he ever received this medal. Bureaucracy was not always fair…
That’s what he brought: massive, complete grouping of medals and documents which used to belong to one man- Guards sergeant major (starshina) Alexandr Mikhailovich Molodtsov.