Russia: Links and Other References

Acknowledgements

Yuri Yashnev, who has been most generous in sharing information and pictures even as new decorations are instituted; Dave Devine (Rusty Knight) for his kind permission to use any of his images, Emmanuel Halleaux and Dudley Wall, generous as ever, and David Ashley Pritchard who has sent many pictures of Imperial Russian awards. François Dutil has spent a lot of time attempting to make sense of modern Russian Federation awards, his ongoing work is on Wikipedia. Roman Slivin has been extremely helpful regarding the awards of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Especial thanks to the Russian Orthodox Church and the Calendar "Awards and medals of Russian Orthodox church for 2001" for the use of images.

Grateful thanks to Spink & Son and Morton & Eden, who have allowed the use of images from their catalogue.

Links

Russian Federation - State Decorations of Russia - site is in Russian, but includes illustrations and regulations for current Russian awards.

Ministry of Defence of Russia - Honours - listing of Ministry of Defence medals including award criteria

Yuri Yashnev - For Merit: Russia - includes Imperial Russia, the Russian Federation and more.

Lucasz Gaszewski - IEPE Orders and Medals of the Russian Federation

David Devine - Rusty Knight: Russian Medals and Rusty Knight: Soviet Medals, all from his personal collection.

Russianmilitaria.com - a fine dealer site with an excellent range of Russian material.

Arthur G. Bates Soviet Military Awards - an awesome and authoritative collection of information.

Oldrich Andrysek - Soviet Medals and Orders - a well-constructed site with some fine information & pictures.

Ed Maier - Red Army Militaria - dealer specialising in the orders and medals of the Soviet Union. He also supplies Soviet badges and propaganda posters and Imperial Russian items. Most items are illustrated.

Andrew Kuznetsov USSR Orders and Medals - this site is in Russian, but even if you cannot read it, the illustrations are beautiful.

CollectRussia - a dealer specialising in the 'Communist bloc', well-illustrated and comprehensive sales lists.

M. Andersson - Medals and Orders of the USSR.

Jeremy Newman - Jeremy's Medals: USSR

Eric Bush - Ribbons of the Soviet Union

Dimitri Markov (Medal Dealer) - Coins and Medals - items for sale

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of the Russian Federation - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5

Antonio Prieto Barrio - Ribbons of Imperial Russia - Page 1 - Page 2

Russian Glory - site covering all aspects of Soviet awards, including recipient research and sales

Wikipedia - Awards and Decorations of the Russian Federation

Text References

O. Kuznetsov Departmental Medals of the Ministry of Defence 2000. 2000.

Michael B. Riley The Campaign Medals of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics OMSA Monograph # 21.

Guy Stair Sainty & Rafal Heydel-Mankoo (Eds) World Orders of Knighthood and Merit Burke's Peerage and Gentry, 2006.

Sergey Shishkov & Mikhail Muzalevsky Orders and Medals of the USSR 1918-1991. Voron Publishing. 2000.

Page last updated: 16 June 2010