Defence of the Caucasus medal and document

[Woolgar]

Just added this nice set to my Soviet collection

Nick

[RKKAFan]

A good early type, awarded to a woman.

[Bill Garvy]

Awarded to Mariya Andreevna Sokirkina on November 7th, 1944 by the Commander of the 734th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (734-й Зенитно Артиллерийского Полк)...

[RKKAFan]

Sokirkina*

[Egorka]

Sokirkina was a spotter.
She was also awarded OPW2 in 1985.

[Woolgar]

Sokirkina was a spotter.
She was also awarded OPW2 in 1985.

Thanks for that info I see you have an archive research service , good to know

Nick

[Bill Garvy]

Podvig Naroda records her Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, 1985 Jubilee, and her name is listed, Mariya Andreevna Beryazovskaya-Sokirkina; no other awards listed.



She was inducted from the Saratov Region, Samoylovsky District, the village of Samoilovka in Russia.

[Woolgar]

Thanks Bill , she was born up river from Stalingrad ?

Nick

[Bill Garvy]

Yes, up river from Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad...

[Egorka]

734 AA regiment spent most of the war in the Rostov-Kuban-Stavropol-Crimea regions. But it ended the war supporting the 1 Ukrainian front providing AA cover for the crossing points over Oder river. The last defence objective was town Küstrin (today Kostrzyn nad Odrą).
It is not clear though if Maria Sokirkina was with the regiment all the way to Germany.