Autographs
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Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Bagramyan, Twice Hero
of the Soviet Union and Commander of the Voroshilov General
Staff Academy from 1956 to 1958, typed document signed. This
1957 document is an evaluation of an Armored Corps General who
was about to complete an advanced course of studies at the
academy. Although the review submitted by the chief of the
study program contained some rather negative points, Bagramyan
recommended to keep the general in his previous capacity of a
mechanized division commander. The document is in excellent
condition.

Air Force Col. General Ivan Kozhedub (later promoted to
Air Force Marshal), letter signed, June 1972. Kozhedub was the
Top Allied Fighter Ace of WWII. The letter is addressed
to one of the leaders of the Soviet space program
congratulating him on successful completion of two key lunar
missions. One of these was Luna 16 spacecraft which was
the first to return a sample of lunar soil to Earth, while the
other, Luna 17, landed the famous moon rover
Lunokhod 1. The document is exceptionally interesting
not only as an autograph of the top allied air ace of WW2 but
also from the standpoint of history of space exploration.

Vice Admiral Filipp Oktyabrsky, Commander of the Black
Sea Fleet, typed document signed during the siege of
Sevastopol on 29 January 1942. Earlier, Oktyabrsky had been in
charge of defense of Odessa, and later in the war, organized
amphibious landings at Kerch and Feodosiya. A very
interesting and uncommon document from the early period of the
war.

Iona Yakir, Commander of the Ukrainian Military
District, typed document signed, January 1930. Yakir was
certainly one of the most brutal Red Army commanders during
the Civil War. Later an inspired military theorist who
eventually became one of the highest ranking victims of
Stalin's purge of the Soviet military in 1937.