the high reward was found quite by accident in the grass by barnal resident mikhail glazyrin, so thean embassy were handed over to our ministry of foreign affairs in the city of barnaul at the representative office, and when we were already going to hand over, exactly 10-15 minutes remained before we handed over, it turns out that the penultimate digit on this medal was broken. about 3 million people were awarded the medal for military merit during the great patriotic war, but even this circumstance did not bother glazyrin, who served in the armed forces; he turned to criminals for help. they helped establish the true figure. then i made a request to the archive, the first clue finally appeared. the recipient was a native of the omsk region, sergeant ivan smirnov, commander of the guards rifle regiment. mikhail posted information about the find on social networks. after 3 days there was a call from the hero’s grandson, and after another week the relatives arrived in barnau. thanks to this find, we remembered his other exploits, when he exchanged... the commander of the sapper squad p