Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type IV, to Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Alexeyevich Zhilyakov Hold A graduation badge from the

A graduation badge from the Nikolaevsky Academy of General Staff - in bronze

4 Bombing and Gunnery School at Fingal

followed four months later by his discharge upon demobilization

circumscribed by an inscription of “ПАРТИЗАНУ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ” (“TO A PARTISAN OF THE PATRIOTIC WAR”) and situated above a banner bearing a central five-pointed star flanked by initials “СССР”

a Sudetenland Medal

Russia, Soviet Union. An Order of the Red Banner, Type IV, to Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr Alexeyevich Zhilyakov Hold A graduation badge from the( ). Constructed of a silver with gilt and enamels, on loop for suspension with its period original ribbon affixed to a pentagonal backplate with horizontal pinback, the obverse consisting of gilded circular wreath, joined together at the bottom by a red enameled banner bearing silvered Russian Cyrcillic letters , surrounding a central white enameled medallion overlaid by a bayonet, hammer, and plow, in turn bearing a red enameled star defaced by a