Order of the Red Star, #826197, Quartermaster Senior Lieutenant

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet V 008976

1. Last name: Zherzdev
2. Name and patrionymic: Nikolai Ivanovich
3. Rank: Captain
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1914
6. Birthplace: Inakievo, Stalinskaya Oblast
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Education: 7th grade
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 1936-1946
11. Place of service at awarding: 2nd Ukrainian Front, 40th Army, 9th Air Defense Division – Division Chief of Produce
12. Place of work at present: Andijan, Municipal Trade Organization
13. Home address: Andijan, Frunze St. #24
14. Awards:

Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Red Star 826.197 40th Army dated 15.8.44

CSM 2.402.955 27th Army dated 6.5.1945

Verified by Chief of the 3rd Section, Andijan Municipal Commissariat on 25th February, 1947



Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Zherzdev, Nikolai Ivanovich
2. Rank: Quartermaster Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Chief of Produce and Foraging Supply – 9th Air Defense Division, RGK
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1914
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: since June 1942
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Andijan Regional Military Commissariat, Uzbek SSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Uzbek ASSR, Andijan, Frunze St. #24

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

As the 9th Air Defense Division (RGK) Chief of Produce and Foraging Supply, Comrade Derzdev has capably provided continuous supply to the regiments and division headquarters of all types of supply items in any conditions.

Visiting the frontlines, Comrade Derzdev has given advice to the regimental supply chiefs on how to organize the feeding of soldiers and officers.

Comrade Zherzdev has fully supplied the regiments; there has not been a single incident of missed feeding of the division’s personnel despite long supply lines, lack of roads.

Comrade Zherzdev is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Deputy Commander of the Rear Area, 9th Air Defense Division, Major Ermakov on 21st June, 1944

Endorsed Division Commander, Colonel Roshitskii on 29th June, 1944

Endorsed Member of the 40 Army Military Council, Guards Colonel Mentyukov on 3rd July, 1944



SECRET

Order 090/N of the 40th Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front dated 15th August, 1944

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary mission accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and courage:

The Order of the Red Star

3. Quartermaster Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Ivanovich Merzdev – Chief of Produce-Field Collection, 9th Air Defense Division, RGK

Signed Commander, 40th Army, Hero of the Soviet Union General-Lieutenant Zhmachenko and Member of the Military Council General-Major K. Kulik


Quartermaster Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Ivanovich Merzdev's Order of the Red Star, #826197.