A Russian Soviet Order of Honor Reissue, awarded as a small first-type badge, complete with the order book ID. This award bears a very low serial number 5228 and was issued to Gogzuldinov Rufim Mikhailovich, a GPU-NKVD-KGB colonel and intelligence officer who operated as a Soviet spy in Iran and Turkey. The original award was first issued in the early 1930s while he was conducting espionage abroad. This re-issued award and ID book were granted in May 1955, upon his return to the Soviet Union. The order book features a special ink stamp stating valid without photograph, and is printed on watermark paper, reflecting his classified status. Russian Soviet Awards And Artifacts For Collectors.

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