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Da tempo cercavo di mettere in collezione un ordine della Guerra Patriottica di seconda classe di produzione MZPP. Finalmente ne ho trovato uno, con tanto di libretto. OPW2 n.665908 assegnato a Mulin Vasily Nikoforovich, classe 1983 maggiore del Genio chiamato e richiamato alle armi fino a partecipare alla seconda guerra mondiale alla verde eta' di 58 anni.
Il libretto e' onorevole, oltre alla patriottica di seconda classe sono registrati una stella rossa e una combat service. Peccato per la foto farlocca di Gregory Peck con una stella rossa di troppo e un aspetto forse troppo giovanile.

Mi scuso per le foto scadenti, appena tornera' una luce decente ne postero' di più' dettagliate.

Molto interessante Sergio! Peccato per la foto, come hai detto (io cercherei di staccarla senza far danni). Era un maggiore dei ruoli tecnici (ingegner-maggiore), fatti una traduzione della citazione, penso sia coinvolto nella raccolta del bottino e dei trofei di guerra intorno a Berlino con la terza armata.

Complimenti peccato per l'aggiunta della foto..
venditori senza scrupoli..

rocketscientist ha scritto:classe 1983

Be', questo giustificherebbe l'aspetto giovanile

A parte gli scherzi complimenti rock, e' magnifico.

airfix ha scritto:

rocketscientist ha scritto:classe 1983

Ho scritto male la data, ma l'ho capita peggio: il nostro e' del 1893, quindi comunque dieci anni più' giovane di come l'ho descritto. All'inizio della guerra aveva 48 anni e non 58! Scusate, scusate. Sara' colpa dell'abuso di Oude Jenever a fine pasto?

Comunque direi che sia molto improbabile che Vasily sia l'uomo della foto, fors'anche con 10 anni in meno.

Mi permetto di aggiungere qualche foto migliore. Scusate l'invadenza, ma non so proprio quando mi capiterà' di avere un altro OPW2 di MZPP tra le mani...

Quanti ne ha prodotti in totale la MZPP?

Meno di 40,000 in due lotti. Questo esemplare e' del secondo lotto nel range di seriale 660001-680000, prodotto credo nel primi mesi del 1945.
Esemplari del secondo lotto (circa nel range tra 180,000 e 200,000) sono decisamente piu' ghiotti. Ma costano di piu'...

Congrats Rocket

we can see the specific handle of the sickle to MZPP .

Years later, I went checking whether more information about maj. Mulin would be available in the web. Surprisingly, pamyat-naroda was able to provide much more information about him, including a photo of the real Mulin Vasily Nikonorovich! I have to assume that the photo was taken during his service in the army, which apparently was in three time slots: 1919-1921, 1939-1940 and 1941-1946. If this is true, in the 40-ies Mr. Vasily was looking a bit older (and natural) than the gentleman in the booklet's picture:
He left the army on April 24, 1946. In the same year (but I cannot read the month, unfortunately) the award booklet was released.
According to pamyat-naroda, but also in the Nagradnoj for the OPGW, he got a CS in 1943, a Red Star in 1944, and the OGPW-2 in 1945. In the booklet the order is not the same, the first award is dated on december 1944 (being the Red Star), while the CS is third in the list.
I hope this will not be sufficient to reject the complete booklet.
It seems that I never posted the translation of the OGPW2 citation, did I? Well, here it is, anyhow. With the usual mistakes and uncertainties due to my poor transcription and Google limitations, of course, but enough to understand the highlights:

Mulin Vasily Nikanorovich
rank: major engineer.
position, part: head of the 4th division of the trophy department of the 3rd Army
submitted to: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree
year of birth: 1893 nationality: Russian partisanship: non-partisan
part in the civil war, the subsequent combat to protect the USSR and the Patriotic War (where, when): U1-1919. U-1921 Since 9.1939 12-1940g. and from 19-1941 in the Patriotic War
does wounded and concussion in the war: does not have wounds and concussions
since what time in the red army: from y1-1941
what rvk call: Stalin's rvk city of Odessa.
than previously awarded (for some differences): ord.red star pr. 3 arm. No. 518 / n from 16.11-44. honey. for military merit, project 9 arm.№ 0220 / n from 10.28.43 years.
Permanent home address of the nominee and his family address: -
a brief, concrete overlay of personal combat feat of the merit of merit:
“Major Engineer Mulin on the fronts of the Patriotic War from the first days, starting the service with the pom. Head of artillery division. on trophy work since October 1941. Major engineer Mulin, head of the military equipment and military equipment department skillfully organized the work of subordinate units in reconnaissance, cutting, dismantling and use of military equipment of the enemy. a lot of work has been done to clean up the army from unsuitable but also dangerous in the frame and transportation of all types of ammunition. the collected and blown up millions of munitions. in difficult conditions of offensive battles in eastern Prussia and in the area of ​​Berlin comrade Mulin personally traveled to the field, giving all the necessary instructions for work, thereby greatly contributed to the military successes of our troops. For the exemplary fulfillment of the combat missions of the command for the use of military equipment, for cleaning up the territory of the army from dangerous ammunition, Major Engineer Mulin deserves a government award-orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree.”

Rocket,

Everything is as should be with the booklet. These booklets are for orders, any medal(s) previously earned would be written in after the first award that was granted with the booklet, in this case the ORS on 16/11/1944, which is confirmed by the date privileges started at (December 1944 in the present case).

Marc

Thank you Marc. I did not know that detail on precedence of orders over medals.
But there are exceptions, as usual:

Rocket,

True, I should have been a bit more precise in my previous post: I should have added "when the Order Booklet was issued with the order".

Anyway, this booklet is no really an exception, it still follows the rules but applies to the case when a recipient had not received booklet(s) previously:
. She received a MM medal on 22 October 1944, thereby opening her rights to privileges from 1 November 1944. At the time, she received a temporary certificate which she may or may not have exchanged for a Medal Booklet.
. She received a ORS on 18 May 1945 with a temporary certificate. End-of-war bureaucracy had to deal with a huge backlog of awards to regularize, and she may not have applied straight away to exchange her temporary certificate for an Order Booklet.
When she finally did - submitting her temporary certificate(s) and possible medal booklet - and the scribes in government's offices got to her file on 26 September 1946, they issued her with this Order Booklet in which her awards are listed in chronological order since it was a post-factum regularization issue.

Marc

Thank you Marc, that was very instructive.

Great about the OGPW! So the photo looks clearly added after original issuing (it looks by far younger than the booklet, isn'tt it?) but is legit!