Article about: Award Card Order Booklet A 309574 1. Last name: Poletaev 2. Name and patrionymic: Viktor Alekseevich 3. Rank: Reserve Lieutenant 4. Gender: Male 5. Birthyear: 1923 6. Birthplace: Yaroslav Ob
Award Card
Order Booklet A 309574
1. Last name: Poletaev
2. Name and patrionymic: Viktor Alekseevich
3. Rank: Reserve Lieutenant
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1923
6. Birthplace: Yaroslav Oblast, Kagotsevskii Region, village of Vedomiga
7. Party membership: since 1944
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 5.1942-8.46
11. Place of service at awarding: 1644 Destroyer Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, 13 Army, 1 Ukrainian Front – Platoon Leader
12. Place of work at present: Kishinev, Rail Police Division, MVTO, Kishinev Railroad – Operations Group
13. Home address: Kishinev, Kavka St. #6
14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization
Red Star 901.161 27 Rifle Corps dated 10.8.44
Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.1945
Verified by Lenin Regional Military District Captain Valenko on 18 November 1946
Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Poletaev, Viktor Alekseevich
2. Rank: Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Gun Platoon Leader, 1644 Zhitomir Destroyer Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment
Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War II Class
4. Born: 1923
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: candidate member since 1944, ID 7079115
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War since August 1943
8. Wounds or shell-shock: two serious wounds 2.9.43 and 25.10.43
9. Time in Red Army: since 1942
10. Inducted by: Struninskii Regional Military Commissariat, Ivanov Oblast
11. Earlier awardings: n/a
12. Home of record: Ivanov Oblast, Struninskii Region, village of Ostoshkino
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
During offensive operations 13.7.44-22.7.44 he displayed bravery and courage. With his platoon assigned to the infantry formations, the direct fire of his platoon destroyed a platoon of enemy infantry, one machinegun, and scattered as many as two platoons of the enemy.
While occupying Rava Russkaya on 20.7.44 his platoon entered alongside the infantry.
He is deserving of the Order of the Patriotic War II Class for displayed combat bravery and heroism.
Signed Regimental Commander, Major Sokolov on 23 July 1944
Endorsed Artilllery Commander, 6 Guards Rifle Division, Guards Colonel (?)shakhovskii on 25 July 1944
Endorsed Commander, 6 Guards Rifle Division, Guards General-Major Snuprienko on 25 July 1944
Endorsed Commander of Artillery, 27 Rifle Corps, Colonel Raklis on 5 July 1944
Recommended downgrade to the Order of the Red Star, Commander, 27 Rifle Corps, Guards General-Major Gerakmanov on 9 August 1944
Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order 56/N of the 27 Rifle Corps and verified by Deputy Chief of Personnel, 27 Rifle Corps, (?) Rom(?)
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Poletaev, Viktor Alekseevich ID Number: G 430340
2. Birthdate and place: 21 November 1923, village of Vedalino, Nasorovskii Region, Yarsoslavl Oblast
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages : n/a
5. Social standing: worker from a peasant family
6. Party membership: since 1944, Party Booklet 6946708
7. Education: Graduated seventh grade (?); military – graduated Pushkin Tank Academy in 1945
8. Combat participation: Voronezh and 1 Ukrainian Fronts 7.08.1945-9.05.1945
9. Wounds or shell-shock: Lightly wounded in the right arm 4 September 1945, seriously wounded (?) 19 October 1945
10. Decorations: Order of the Red Star and Victory over Germany Medal
11. Captivity or encirclement: n/a
12. Document:
13. On file: Odessa Military District, Lenin Regional Military Commissariat, Kishinev
14. Promotion: Senior Lieutenant on 15.8.1948
15. Category: Commander I Class
16. Branch of service: Armor and Mechanized, specialty #42
17. Health: fit for service
18. Call-ups:
19. Employment and position: temporarily unemployed
20. Family status and home of record: married to Valentina Fedorovna, b. 1926. Kishinev, Kavkaz Crossing #6, Apt. 1
21. Special remarks: Military ID Ash 48627 issued 11.10.52
22. Service record:
Cadet Pushkin Tank Academy, V(?), Moscow Mil District 10.2.42
Tank Platoon Leader 3(?) Reserve Tank Regiment, Gorkii 15.8.43
SU-152 Commander 1831 Self-Propelled Artillery Regt, 3 Guards Mech Corps 10.8.43
In recuperation Field Hospital #358, 1 Ukrainian Front 4.9.43
SU-152 Commander 1851 Self-Propelled Arty Regmt, 1 Ukrainian Front 10.43
In recuperation from wounds Field Hospital #1825, 1 Ukrainian Front 11.1943
Gun Platoon Leader 1644 Destroyer-AT Arty Rgt, 1,2,3 Ukrainian Fronts 1.1.1944
23. Released to the reserves, Category I with rank of lieutenant by Odessa Mil District 15.6.45
24. Retired with rank:
25. Verification: Acting Chief of the Lenin Regional Military Committee Major Mishchenko
The first documents says that Poletayev received military booklet (voyenny bilet) nr. GI-062092 on 9 Dec 1968 by the military commissariat of the Lenin Raion, city of Chisinau. He was then living on 6 Kavkazskaya Street, apartment 1. Signed by the chief of the 3rd section, Major Kostenko, on 9 Dec 1968.
The second doc is a "Check card" (kontrolnaya kartochka) for the military booklet and lists name, personal number, rank, and year and place of birth.
The last two scans are his wartime service record, the predecessor of the one with photo you showed earlier.
Order of the Red Star, #901161
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