Order of the Red Star, #2094100, Guards Master Sergeant, Mortar commander

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Record card

Order booklet nr. B-950632

1. Last name: Koshmaty
2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Ivanovich
3. Military rank: Reserve Guards Private
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1922
6. Place of birth: Village of Troitskoye, Novaya Odessa Raion, Nikolayev Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1945
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From November 1941 through December 1946
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Commander of an 82-mm mortar platoon of the 22nd Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade, 6th Guards Tank Corps, 1st Ukrainian Front
12. Current place of service and position: Technician at the Public Services Department of the Novaya Odessa Raion, town of Novaya Odessa
13. Home address of the awardee: Town of Novaya Odessa, Novaya Odessa Raion, Nikolayev Oblast

14. List of all awards received:

Medal for Courage 678433 , Order of the 22nd Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade nr. 089/N of December 30, 1943

Order of the Red Star 2094100 , Order of the 22nd Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade nr. 044/N of April 13, 1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class 584355 , Order of the 6th Guards Tank Corps nr. 071/N of May 17, 1945

Medal for the Liberation of Prague

Medal for the Capture of Berlin

Medal for the Victory over Germany

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

Military commissar of the Novaya Odessa Raion
Major [signed] /Baranets/
July 23, 1947



[Stamped: 1st Ukrainian Front]

Order

Of the 22nd Fastov Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade

– On the bestowal of decorations –

April 13, 1945 – Nr. 044/N – Operational Army

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

The Order of the Red Star to:

3. Guards Master Sergeant Nikolai Ivanovich Koshmaty, mortar commander in the Mortar Battalion

Commander of the 22nd Fastov Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade
Guards Colonel [signed] /Bogdanov/

Brigade chief of staff
Guards Colonel [signed] /Shteinberg/


Award sheet

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Award sheet

1. Last name, first name, and patronymic: Kashmaty, Nikolai Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Master Sergeant
3. Position and unit: Mortar commander in the Mortar Battalion of the 22nd Fastov Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd Class Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade

Is being nominated for: Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class

4. Year of birth: 1922
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party affiliation: Candidate member of the Communist Party, candidate membership card nr. 6659803 from January 1944
7. Participation in the Patriotic War: City of Stalingrad; 1st Ukrainian Front from November 1943 through September 4, 1944; and since January 12, 1945
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: 1 severe wound and 1 contusion
9. Since when in the Red Army: October 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Stalin Raion, Krasnodar Krai
11. Previous awards: Medal for Courage by Order of the 22nd Fastov Red Banner Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade nr. 089/N of December 30, 1943
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and his family’s address: _______________

Short, concrete description of his feat of arms or accomplishments:

During a clash with an enemy unit near the town of Volya Nidovska, Guards Master Sergeant N.I. Kashmaty fired from an open firing position while subjected to artillery shelling. With his mortar he destroyed 2 light vehicles and 2 wagons carrying various kinds of cargo and killed 60 Hitlerites. Afterward he spotted 2 enemy firing positions; shifting fire in their direction he destroyed the 2 firing positions. Comrade Kashmaty is a loyal son of the motherland and a brave and valiant soldier.

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


Commander of the 2nd Mortar Company
Guards Senior Lieutenant [signed] /Titov/
January 25, 1945



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

Commander of the Mortar Battalion
Guards Captain [signed] /Pugin/
January 26, 1945



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

Artillery commander [stamped: 22nd Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade]
Guards Major [signed] /Izmestyev/
March 20, 1945



I award the Order of the Red Star.

Commander of the 22nd Fastov Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd Class Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade
Guards Colonel [signed] /Bogdanov/
March 25, 1945