Guards Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service Aleksei Alekseyevich Novikov

[Bill Garvy]

Again, no medals or orders, but a compelling documents group researched from the two capture/liberation documents. My thanks to Auke for his invaluable assistance in this project.

Record card

Order booklet nr. 859207

1. Last name: Novikov
2. First name and patronymic: Aleksei Alekseyevich
3. Military rank: Guards Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1918
6. Place of birth: City of Moscow
7. Party membership (since which year): Not a member
8. Education: Elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: 1938
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Senior medic in the 15th Independent Guards Dresden Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 22nd Independent Guards Berlin Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade
12. Current place of service and position: Senior medic in the 2nd Guards Berlin Engineer-Sapper Regiment
13. Home address of the awardee: 5 Zolotoprudnaya Street, Saltykovka Station, Balashikha Raion, Moscow Oblast

14. Record of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal/Serial number/Number of the document/Ground of award

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class 583750 Temporary certificate nr. Z-428717 Order of the 1st Ukrainian Front nr. 0111/N of June 16, 1945

Medal for the Victory over Germany - Temporary certificate nr. M-0374616 Decree of May 9, 1945

Medal for the Capture of Berlin - Temporary certificate nr. A-199949 Decree of June 9, 1945

Medal for the Liberation of Prague - A-165326 Decree of June 9, 1945

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Chief of staff of the 2nd Guards Berlin Engineer-Sapper Regiment
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Kalintsev/
August 13, 1946

Order

Secret
Copy nr.

Order

Of the 1st Ukrainian Front

June 16, 1945 – Nr. 0111/N – Active Army

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:

[…]

166. Guards Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service Aleksei Alekseyevich Novikov, medic in the 15th Independent Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion

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Commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Marshal of the Soviet Union [signed] /I. Konev/

Member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Lieutenant General [signed] /Krainyukov/

Chief of staff of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Army General [signed] /I. Petrov/



Chief of the Personnel Section of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Colonel [signed] /Antonyuk/

All fields to be filled out fully

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Novikov, Aleksei Alekseyevich
2. Rank: Guards Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service
3. Position and unit: Medic in the 15th Independent Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion
Nominated for: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class
4. Year of birth: 1918
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Not a member
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): On the Karelian and 1st Ukrainian Front since June 1941
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since October 1938
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Kuibyshev Raion, city of Moscow
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

He took part in the operations aimed at crossing channels and liquidating encircled German forces near the city of Potsdam and Wannsee Island. He spent the entire duration of the operations directly among the combat formations, providing first aid to 70 wounded soldiers and officers. In the most difficult combat conditions during the encirclement battles he did not lose composure or presence of mind, but continued providing first aid to the wounded. He organized the smooth evacuation of wounded men from the island, despite the difficulties of trying to overcome the water barrier. Through his brave and selfless actions he saved the lives of many soldiers and officers.

He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Commander of the 15th Independent Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion
Guards Major [signed] /Glushkov/
May 19, 1945

He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Commander of the 22nd Independent Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command
Guards Colonel [signed] /Novikov/
May …, 1945

He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Chief of the Engineering Forces of the 4th Guards Tank Army
Guards Colonel [signed] /Poluektov/
May 25, 1945

He deserves the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Commander of the 4th Guards Tank Army
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
Guards Colonel General [signed] /Lelyushenko/

Member of the Military Council of the 4th Guards Tank Army
Guards Major General of the Tank Forces [signed] /Gulyayev/
May 26, 1945

He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Chief of the Engineering Forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Colonel General of the Engineering Forces [signed] /I. Galitsky/
May 31, 1945

By Order of the 1st Ukrainian Front nr. 0111/N of June 16, 1945 awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Chief of the 3rd Subsection of the Personnel Section of the 1st Ukrainian Front
Lieutenant Colonel of the Administrative Service [signed] /________/
November 5, 1945

Document for the Medal for the Capture of Berlin issued December 18th, 1945 and signed by the Commander of the 15th Guards Independent Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion, Guards Major Chagan, Serial #A199949.

Document for the Medal for the Liberation of Prague issued March 16th, 1946 and signed by the Commander of the 15th Guards Independent Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion, Guards Major Chagan, Serial #A165326.

[Bill Garvy]

Service record

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Novikov, Aleksei Alekseyevich
2. Born on:
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of languages:
5. Place of birth: City of Moscow
6. Social situation and origins: Worker
7. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since:
Party membership booklet nr.:
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member of the Komsomol since: 1938
Not a party member:
Membership of other parties:
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation:
8. Education
General education: 8 classes
Military education: Leningrad Medical School in 1944
Political education:
9. Service in the old army:
10. Service in the White Army:
11. Has he been captured or surrounded (if he was surrounded, only note escapes separate from his unit):

12. Military promotions By whose order Order nr. Date
Junior Lieutenant Chief of the rear 0295 May 24, 1944
Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service Main Military Medical Directorate 0136 May 25, 1944

13. Service at the front: Participated in the Patriotic War
14. Wounds and contusions:
15. Awards (orders and medals):
16. Family situation and address of the family: Father, Moscow Oblast

Biographical certificate nr. , issued on

17. Joined the Red Army from where and from which position (if called up from the reserves, note ‘from the reserves’, date of call-up and interval period):

18. Service in the Red Army:

Name of the position Name of the unit By whose order Order nr. Day, month and year
Graduated in 1944
At the disposal of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Red Army, Moscow
Medic in a medical unit 22nd Guards Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command Main Military Medical Directorate 0136 May 25, 1944
Medic 9th Independent Guards Engineer-Sapper Battalion Main Military Medical Directorate 0195 July 31, 1944
Senior medic 2nd Guards Engineer-Sapper Regiment Central Group of Forces 02580 September 18, 1946

19. Transferred to the reserve from the position of … and with the rank of:

20. Reasons of the transfer:


Service record

Nr. B-226016

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Novikov, Aleksei Alekseyevich
2. Date and place of birth: February 14, 1918 in Moscow
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages and level of mastery: No
5. Social situation and origins: Serviceman
6. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since:
Party membership booklet nr.:
Candidate member of the Communist Party since:
Member of the Komsomol since:
Not a party member: Yes
Party penalties and changes in party affiliation:
7. Education
General education: Serviceman; 8 classes in Moscow in 1934
Military education (indicate full names of the military educational institutions, month and year of graduation, full or accelerated course attended): Leningrad Military Medical School in 1944
Political education: No
8. Service at the front: From October 1941 through February 1943 on the Karelian Front, from July 1944 through May 1945 on the 1st Ukrainian Front
9. Wounds and contusions: No
10. Awards (orders and medals): Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class nr. 583750; Medal for the Capture of Berlin in 1945; Medal for the Liberation of Prague in 1945; Medal for the Victory over Germany in 1945
11. Has he been captured or surrounded; when, where and for how long (if he was surrounded, only note escapes separate from his unit): No
12. Registration numbers:
13. Registered where (name of the military commissariat and oblast): Military Commissariat of the Kuibyshev Raion, city of Moscow, Moscow Oblast

14. Military promotions By whose order Order nr. Date
Junior Lieutenant Main Military Medical Directorate of the Red Army 0295 May 24, 1944

15. Personnel category: Medical corps, reserve of the 1st category
16. Branch of arms: , military specialty nr. 294
17. State of health: Healthy
18. Attended trainings:
19. Place of service and position (or nature of activities outside military service): Merchandize specialist at the main department store of the Central Trade Depot for Commodity Goods, 31/35 F. Engels Street, Ye-1-89-84
20. Family situation and home address: Bachelor. Father: Aleksei Fyodorovich Novikov, born in 1887. Mother: Varvara Vasilyevna Novikova, born in 1887. 11 Bolshevistsky Street, apartment 17
21. Special remarks: Registered until December 31, 1973; issued new-style military ID nr. M-48656

22. Service in the Soviet Army:

Name of the position Name of the unit By whose order Order nr. Date
Cadet Medical Instructor School, city of Irkutsk September 1938
Medical instructor Military unit nr. 5797, city of Irkutsk July 1939
Medical instructor 363rd Rifle Regiment, 114th Rifle Division October 1939
Medical company first sergeant 536th Rifle Regiment, 114th Rifle Division October 1941
Cadet Leningrad Military Medical School February 1943
Reserve officer Main Military Medical Directorate May 1944
Medic Medical platoon of the 22nd Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigade July 1944
Medic 15th Independent Motorized Assault Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 22nd Guards Brigade March 1945
Medic 9th Guards Engineer-Sapper Battalion, 2nd Guards Brigade November 1945
Senior medic 2nd Guards Berlin Engineer-Sapper Regiment June 1946
Transferred to the reserve in accordance with Article 43, Section A.

Military commissar of the Kuibyshev Raion
Colonel [signed]

Chief of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Kuibyshev Raion
Guards Captain [signed] /Sadikov/ Kiev Military District 0686 of April 6, 1947 June 5, 1947

23. Transferred to the reserve of the category with the rank of
24. Retired with the rank of:

25. Attestation

On which position Final conclusion of the attestation Date