Newest purchase Red Star 657439

[robin morley]

Quite incredible, Well despite this being a long service award, Auke has told me there will be a citation for it. He will hopefully find this i the archives and I will post it when received.

[robin morley]

HI Ade, This award comes some way before the recognised start of long services awards, this being number 659503 and as you stated the 1944 long service awards are normally in the range 848000 - 1 000 000.

Hi Robin, this is really interesting. Your Officer served at the same school as Aleksei Danilovich Tretyak, who's story I have featured here.

New addition to my collection : Order of the Red Star 659503

They even lived at the same address! They must have been Comrades.

Red Stars began to be issued for 15 years Long service in this serial number range in 1944: roughly numbers 848,000 to 1,000,000. So yours is early.

Cheers, Ade.

[robin morley]

Thanks to Auke i now have the citation. Not often I see citations for long service awards on the internet so I thought I would post this one for interest.

Award sheet

[Stamp: Order of the Red Star]

For 18 years and 0 months of service in the Red Army

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name, and patronymic: Kruglov, Mikhail Grigoryevich
2. Rank: Major-Engineer
3. Position and unit: Lecturer at the Leningrad Advanced Aviation Engineering Training Courses of the Red Army Air Forces
Nominated for: Order of the Red Star
4. Year of birth: 1904
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1930
7. Place of birth: Village of Bortnovo, Neya Raion, Yaroslavl Oblast
8. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): No
9. Wounds and contusions received (how many, when, severity):
a) During the Civil War: No
b) During the Patriotic War: No
c)
10. Since when in the Red Army (month, day, and year): Since October 1926
11. Awarded which orders and medals and when: None
12. Home address: Dam nr. 2, city of Magnitogorsk

Attestation:

He is a fast-rising lecturer who teaches the engineering lecture cycles. He is capable of taking initiative and the classes with non-permanent personnel are taught in an excellent manner. He seeks to have students master the course subjects as well as possible. He performs a great deal of work to further develop the training methods. He is a great help to student who have fallen behind and oversees the studies of outstanding students well.

He takes an active part in streamlining the educational process. He carries out great efforts to educate the permanent and non-permanent personnel. He is highly disciplined, efficient, and dutiful. He is one of the best course lecturers. His current position suits him fully.

Temporary head of the Education Department
Major-Engineer [signed] /Kardashevsky/
August 11, 1944



Service in the Red Army

Since when Until when Name of the position Name of the unit and formation District / front
Oct 1926 Oct 1928 Private Guard detail of the 11th Local Rifle Company, city of Kovrov Moscow Military District
Oct 1928 Sep 1929 In the reserves
Sep 1929 Nov 1931 Cadet, student Military Engineering School of the Red Army Air Forces, city of Leningrad Leningrad Military District
Nov 1931 Dec 1935 Instructor, lecturer Flight School of the Red Army Air Forces, city of Engels Volga Military District
Dec 1935 Dec 1937 Student Voroshilov Advanced Training Courses of the Red Army Air Forces Leningrad Military District
Dec 1937 Present time Lecturer, lecturer at a Technical Personnel Training Course K.Y. Voroshilov Leningrad Advanced Aviation Engineering Training Courses of the Red Army Air Forces Ural Military District


List compiled on the basis of his 1938 personnel file.

Chief of the Personnel Section
Captain-Engineer [signed] /Fomin/
August 11, 1944



He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Temporary Director of the Leningrad Aviation Engineering Courses
Colonel [signed] /Medvedev/
August 11, 1944



He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Commander of the Air Forces of the Ural Military District
Lieutenant General of Aviation [signed] /Ustinov/
August 13, 1944



He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Commander of the Ural Military District
Lieutenant General [signed] /Katkov/

Member of the Military Council
Major General [signed] /Abramov/
August 18, 1944