Russia – Soviet: A potentially interesting long service Order of the Red Banner to Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Ionovich Lar’kov, the senior aide to the Chief of the Department in the Department of Combat and Fitness training, 1st Far Eastern Front, who would have seen service related to the Red Army’s operation in Manchuria in August 1945.
Order of the Red Banner, type 3, variation 1, numbered 138972
Condition: Good very fine
Ivan Ionovich Lar’kov was born in the village of Mardvinovo, Tumskij district in Ryazan Raion in 1900. Having 7 years of school behind him he joined the Red Army in 1919, became a member of the Communist Party in 1925 and then served during the Great Patriotic War.
In his position as the senior aide to the chief of the department of the Department of Combat and Fitness training, 1st Far Eastern Front, he would likely have seen little front line service until the operation against the Japanese that began on 9th August 1945.
This award of the Order of the Red Banner was for 20 years long service on 3rd November 1944, in the first batch of these issued, he was then subsequently to receive the Order of Lenin for 25 years long service on 21st February 1945.
Lar’kov’s final award was an Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class issued by order of the 1st Far Eastern Front on 9th September 1945.
He was also the recipient of a Medal for the Defence of the Soviet Polar Region and a Medal for Victory over Germany.
After the conflict he was working at the Department of the Combat and fitness training, Primorsky military district while living at 66 Leninskaya Street number 66 in the town of Kobrin, Belorussia
