Researched Medal for Combat Service #23835 to Navy female combatant!

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Researched Medal for Combat Service #23835 to Navy female combatant!
Silver and enamels.
Type 1 (mondvor).
Serial number: 23835.
Excellent vintage condition, red enamels are practically excellent, all original suspension device.
Comes with color scans of award cards and citation.
Awarded to Lyalina (Zikova after marriage) Olga Vasil'evna, medic of "Black Death" 1st Naval Battalion, North Fleet, by decree of April 15, 1942, for saving 26 wounded sailors during a fight of Sept. 10-16, 1941.
She had to carry each one for 3km without any actual roads, thru mountain terrain, to the nearest safe spot. True hero of WWII!
Rare and historically important awarding to a female navy recipient, of a very scarce "mondvor" type medal.