Soviet Citation for combat service medal - also translation help required

[Ostfront]

This is the second one, a citation for combat service medal.

Thank you for any help.

[Mondvor]

Translation for Military Merit.

Comrade Kozmenkov arrived to the newly formed 328th Long Range Aviation Regiment at the end of May 1944, after being graduated from Zhukovsky Air Force Academy. During his service within the regiment he displayed himself as disciplined and diligent officer with strong organizing skills. After a new technical personnel consisted of sergeants and officers arrived to the regiment, comrade Kozmenkov organized for them special training courses about maintenance of new planes Er-2. He has a good level of knowledge about service procedures for the planes equipped with engines M-82, M-105, M-88b and ACh-30b, and he always shares this knowledge with people working under his command. Well behaved and polite officer. Morally strong and dedicated to the Communist Party of Lenin and Stalin. Deserves the state award medal ?For Military Merit?.

Chief of Staff of 328th Long Range Air Regiment Lt. Colonel Mihajlov.

August 4, 1944

Commander of 7th Guards Long Range ?Sevastopol? Air Division Guards Colonel Shirokij

August 4, 1944

[Ostfront]

Thank you very much Mondvor for both translations.

This one seems to be a rather interesting citation. These long range bombers were very few in numbers.

[Mondvor]

Just want to add that during the GPW Soviet long-range aviation was represented with bombers Il-4, DB-3 and Er-2. However, all of them were two-engine airplanes. The only plane in Soviet Air Force with 4 engines, that could be compared to American B-17, was Pe-8. It was excellent plane. Unfortunately, less than 80 of them were produced. Pe-8 participated in night raids on Berlin and other German cities in 1941. Considerable part of them was lost because of AAA fire and enemy fighter attacks.