Campaign medal documents

**Marcel Banziger** · 03-29-2019, 06:27 PM

Thanks a lot for the names and additional information!

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 03-29-2019 06:27 PM

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**B618aa** · 04-16-2019, 10:20 PM

Here is a document in a set of items my less 'technical' friend picked up that I thought was interesting.
Stalingrad doc. It is issued to a Пороник Григорий Саввич and from the 3rd Guard's Mechanized Corp (formerly 4th Mechanized Corps).
But a closer look into the records show he was their counter-intelligence officer and at the time in the 57th army surrounding Stalingrad

ОО НКВД 4 мк 57 А ЮжнФ
Особый Отдел Народный комиссариат внутренних дел - 4 механизированный корпус - Южный фронт
Special Department of the NKVD – 4th Mechanized Corps - 57th Army - Southern Front

Later to be
ОКР "СМЕРШ" 3 гв. мехк БТ и МВ 1 ПрибФ
отдел контрразведки "СМЕРШ" - 3 гвардейский механизированный корпус - бронетанковые и механизированные войска - 1 Прибалтийский фронт
Counterintelligence department "SMERSH" - 3rd Guards Mechanized Corps - Armored and mechanized forces - 1st Baltic Front

**Bill Garvy** · 04-23-2019, 03:58 PM

Document for the Medal Victory over Germany issued to Lieutenant-General Tank Troops & Hero of the Soviet Union (#518) Fedor Grigor’yevich Katkov dated August 1945 by the Commander of the 6th Guards Tank Army, Guards Colonel-General Tank Troops & Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (#83 & #2546), Andrei Grigor’yevich Kravchenko

Fedor Grigor’yevich Katkov

Andrei Grigor’yevich Kravchenko

Document for the Medal Victory over Japan issued to Lieutenant-General Tank Troops & Hero of the Soviet Union (#518) Fedor Grigor’yevich Katkov dated April 27th, 1946 by the Commander of the 39th Army, Colonel-General & Hero of the Soviet Union (#1892), Ivan Ilyich Lyudnikov, Serial #B454262

Ivan Ilyich Lyudnikov

**Marcel Banziger** · 04-23-2019, 04:29 PM

Very cool additions!! But isn't it Katkov instead of Katov?

**Bill Garvy** · 04-23-2019, 05:56 PM

Yes, it is, you're correct. I have edited my post accordingly. Thank you!

**Marcel Banziger** · 04-23-2019, 07:19 PM

Btw Bill, are you familiar with this book: "Red Army Tank Commanders - The armored guards" by Richard N. armstrong? It contains six stories about Guards tank commanders of which one full chapter (some 75 pages) about Andrei Grigor'yevich Kravchenko. A very interesting read

**Bill Garvy** · 04-26-2019, 02:39 PM

Document for the Medal Defense of Moscow issued to Fauzi Shakirzyanovich Yakhin dated November 6th, 1944 by the Commander of the 81st Railroad Battalion (81-го Железнодорожного Батальона), Lieutenant-Colonel & Hero of Socialist Labor (#105), Abram Mendelevich Kirnarskiy, Serial #P015100.

Lieutenant-Colonel & Hero of Socialist Labor (#105), Abram Mendelevich Kirnarskiy

Document for the Medal Liberation of Belgrade issued to Guards Senior Sergeant Iraida Nikolaevna Tsizh dated November 6th, 1945 by the Commander of the 4th Guards “Stalingrad” Red Banner, Order of Suvorov & Kutuzov Mechanized Corps (4-й гвардейского Сталинградского Краснознаменного Орденов Суворова и Кутузова Механизированного Корпуса), Guards Lieutenant-General Tank Troops & Hero of the Soviet Union (#3772), Vladimir Ivanovich Zhdanov, Serial #A014091.

Guards Lieutenant-General Tank Troops & Hero of the Soviet Union (#3772), Vladimir Ivanovich Zhdanov

Documents group of Captain, 3rd Grade, Moisey Yakovlevich Yampol’skiy

Document for the Medal Defense of Sevastopol dated December 28th, 1944 by the Chief of the Political Department Black Sea Fleet (Начальник Политуправления ЧФ), Major-General (Aviation) Filaretov, Serial #Zh38502

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus dated December 11th, 1944 by the Chief of the Political Department Black Sea Fleet (Начальник Политуправления ЧФ), Major-General (Aviation) Filaretov, Serial #M022946

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Commissar of the Dzerzhinsky District Military Commissariat, Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Sergeevich Abramov dated February 28th, 1945 by Commissar Colonel Izmailov, Azerbaijan SSR (АзССР), serial #I038710.

Document for the Medal Defense of the Caucasus issued to Varvara Petrovna Mingalieva dated September 13th, 1944 hand signed by the Chairman & Secretary of the Executive Committee Grozny (Chechnya) Oblast Council of Labor Deputies, Serial #Zh000274.

Document for the Medal Capture of Berlin issued to Senior Lieutenant (Medical Services) Nadezhda Prokof’yevna Zabel’skaya dated October 22nd, 1945 by the Commander of the 6th Pontoon Bridge “Kameneta-Podolsk” Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Red Star Brigade (6-я понтонно-мостовая Каменец-Подольская Краснознамённая орденов Богдана Хмельницкого и Красной Звезды бригада), Guards Colonel & Hero of the Soviet Union (#1997), Jan Andreevich Berzin, Serial #A018318.

**Marcel Banziger** · 04-29-2019, 06:00 PM

Document for the Defense of Moscow medal, awarded to Red Army soldier Ivan Vasilyevich Konoplyany, dated June 24 1945, by the commander of the 121st howitzer artillery Novgorod Red Banner Order of Aleksander Nevsky brigade Guards Colonel Solovev, document # Sh No 005350.

**Marcel Banziger** · 05-04-2019, 07:17 PM

Document for the Liberation of Prague medal, awarded to Guards Senior Sergeant Nikolai Panteleyevich Kraminskiy, dated March 22 1946, by the commander of the 29th Guards Motorised Rifle Unechskiy Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders: Suvorov, Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Aleksander Nevsky regiment Guards Lieutenant Colonel (...??), document # A No 176721.

Any help with the commander's name is very welcome! I would guess it is something like Solyoluko??