High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The memorial award badge To the Valiant Soldier of the Karelian Front (Russian: ( ) " ") was a military decoration introduced in the Red Army. It was the first award of this type. "Karelian Front" was an informal name of the Karelian Battle Region of the Petrograd Military District in the territory of Karelia and part of Murmansk guberniya, formed for the suppression of the Karelian Uprising of 1921-1922.