Soviet Lt.-Col. Ilya Grigoryevich Reznikov

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The interior (no photo, DAMN, on either),

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The sole difference on this page on the less-legible one is the addition of a final stamp:

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And a 'footnote' of sorts:

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The back page of the 'folding-card' service service record is blank and I don't see any good reason to show it. There's much more. Recommendations and full service record (no photos) and all. I hope Greg god in his wisdom will share these translations soon.

[Guest Rick Research]

Back-filled and complete now

The two Award Record Cards and starting on service records=

Ilya Grigorievich Reznikov

Lieutenant Colonel

born 22 July 1916 village of Krasny Shakter, Igyumsky Raion, Kharkovskaya Oblast

CPSU 1940, Party number 1,129, 998 Ukrainian

In Red Army Dec 39-Nov 42 and since May 43 (ARC 1), 1943-63 (ARC 2)

Decorated (ARC1 ) as Deputy Detachment Commander for political matters (aha COMMISSAR) of 63rd Geodesic "order of the Reed Star" Detachment (same at time of ARC 1-- 29.month obscured by stamp.55) Currently-- same

Decorated (ARC2) as Student at Military Pedagogical Institute. Currently (12.6.85) "Duty Operative" on staff "of GO," city of Belya Tserkov.'

Home address (1955) Apt 12, House #7, Lenin Ulitsa, Irkutsk

Home address (1985) Apt 66, 22 Kursovoi Per, Belaya Tserkov'

ORS 905,476 4.11.44 per 2nd White Russian Front

OPW1 118,305 22.6.45 per 2nd White Russian Front

MMM no # 15.11.50 long service

ORS 3,381,439 26.10.55 long service

Medals: Defense of Caucasus, Liberation of Warsaw, Capture of K?nigsberg, Victory Over Germany, 1948

ORS 3,712,970 per long forgotten 21.2.45

He would also have had the medals for 1958 and 20 years Armed Forces Service as of 1963.

Higher political, specialized, and civic education = "10 class in 1957" (?)

Higher military and military political education=

Graduate of Military Political School "in the name of Frunze" 1941,

Graduate of VVPI (Higher Military Pedagogical Institute?) of the WPRA 1944

Married-- wife Mariya Ivanovna Kuznetzova stated as born 1926 son Vladimir born 1939 daughters Svetlana 1946 and Natasha 1950

Entered military service 8 October 1939 at Konstantinovsky RVK, Donetskoi Oblasty and for 2nd time 2 July 1943 at Nazarsky RVK kraeno..... Krai.

Sr Lt 15.5.44

Capt 7.2.45

Major 10.12.46

Lt Col 13.12.50

Retired 31 May 1963

Assignments

8.10.39 Private, 22nd "T" Rgt, Leningrad Military District

15.3.40 Assistant Platoon Commander 52nd (something) "trakt" Base, LMD

15.10.40 Deputy Company Politruk, 52nd (something) "trakt" Base LMD

15.5.41 Student at MilPolSchool "in the name of Frunze"

31.12.41 a Tank Company Commissar in 40th Tank Brigade, Crimean Front

19.3.42 for wounds to Evac Hosp 1405 city of Maikop (there 19.3.-5.4. per "footnote" of Transbaikal Mil Dist 9.5.63)

5.4.42 a Company Commissar in a Battle Tank Battalion, 40th Tank Division, Crimean Front

20.5.42 for wounds to Evac Hosp 4426 city of Kislovodsk (there 20.5.-9.6 per confirming "footnote")

9.6.42 Commissar of a Tank Battalion, 40th Tank Division, Northern Caucasus Front

2.8.42 (something) for wounds to (Evac Hosp) 1491 city of Tskhaltuba and city of Baku

21.10.42 discharged to reserves

2.7.43 recalled from reserves of the Soviet Army (that thrid one must have been a hell of a wound!!!)

2.8.43 Student at VVPI of the Soviet Army

20.6.44 (Reserve?) Main (Supply?) Administration

2.10.44 Commissar of Officers' Company Reserve of the 2nd White Russian Front

24.11.44 Political Commander, Construction Units Reserve of the 2nd WRF

15.6.46 Deputy Political Commander 865th Independent Auto Btn, Northern Group of Forces

12.12.46 Political Commander 109th Independent Btn, NGF

16.7.47 Political Commander 21st Topographical Detachment NGF

23.11.49 Political Commander 64th Indep Gds Rifles Bn, 16th Rifles Brigade, eastern Siberian Military District

25.1.50 Deputy Political Commander 63rd Geodesic Detachment, Eastern Siberian Mil Dist

and that was his final unit, from which he retired 13 years later!!!

Edited December 5, 2007 by Rick Research

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Thanks, Rick. Await daylight. Let me know if you can consume more.

Edited December 5, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

[Guest Rick Research]

Above completed, barring a few illegible bits. Continue but NOT en masse. Deciphering ONE thing and THEN going on is much easier to do.

I wish I could provide ANY information on the 40th Tank Brigade/Division. He obviously was a true frontline commissar, in the thick of action-- the ideal, rather than the usual reality.

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Many thanks for this, Rick, many thanks!

Let me know when you can stand more.

A new one will be up soon, though mosty translated already . . . .

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OK, starting the recommendations, in no particular order.

This one seems to display evidence of wartime shortages of fresh typewriter ribbons, sorry.

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Part 2.

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Up the chain of command . . .

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. . . and.

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Thanks in advance. More to come in easy-to-digest bits.

[Guest Rick Research]

Aha. The old multiple wounds on the same day counts as one situation.

All this adds for personal detail is that his wife was then Iraida Nikolaevna Reznikova, living in Izyumsky Raion, Kharkov Oblast-- SHE was presumably the mother of the 1st child and NOT the "13 year old bride." (For a paranoid totalitarian regime that arrested family members, records of who exactly and when exactly spouses were acquired and shed is remarkably... sloppy.)

Anyway, this is the recommendation for his Red Star that went astray and was not processed until 1985! Recommended for Red Star as Senior Politruk/Student at the Military Pedagogical Institute of the Red Army.

SHORT gist (WHY are you paying for delayed translations? ) is

Gives Reznikov's background as commissar of the 3rd Tank Company, 2nd Tank Battalion, 40th Tank Brigade in the 51st Army in the Crimea.

On 14 March 1942 in battle for the village of Karpe(g?), he was wounded (unspecified) when his tank was hit. Transferring to a second tank, he was wounded again--in the right leg--when THAT tank was hit too. He was evacuated to hospital in Maikop, but Karpe(g?) was captured.

Afterward assigned to Major General Vegin's staff on the Crimean Front. On 14 May 1942, while defending Kerch, with infantry troops attacking the city of Kamysh Burun, he was wounded in the left arm by machine gun fire AND in the right arm by a mine splinter. Evacuated to the city of Kislovodsk.

After that served in the 164th Reserve Regiment on the Northern Caucasus Front as echelon commissar escorting 1,200 soldiers for the 336th Division in Novoleuskovskaya. Then served in the 136th Regiment at the city of Armavir, receiving "light" contusion and "light" wound to the head. (He was pretty much a human pincushion by then! )2 August evacuated to city of Tskhaltuba, and later back to Baku.

21 October 1942 discharged to Invalid 2nd Group status for 6 months. ("Light" being relative, apparently.)

Has been at the Institute since September 1943. Disciplined... energetic... devoted to Party of Lenin-and-Stalin (boilerplate text). For wounds and merit deserves....

20 April 1944 Course Commander Major Kalyutin

21 April 1944 agreed Institute Commander Major General Afanesiev

29 May 1944 agreed, Major Generaal Kurbatkin and Major General Shishkin, Commander and Chief Commissar respectively of Central Asian Military District

21.2.45 conferred by Ukaz of the Presidum of the USSR

obviously he'd moved on and this just never caught up with him.

Nexxxxxxxxxxxt.

[Ed_Haynes]

Thanks, Rick! Next (after the arrival of lend-lease typewriter ribbons?):

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Part 2.

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Up the chain of command . . .

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. . . and.

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One more recommendation to go and then the (rather odd) personnel file.

[Guest Rick Research]

Oh, we LIKE odd personnel files.

This one is for OPW 1st as the Commander of Political Staff of (Commissar) Officers' Reserve Company (i.e. unassigned replacements pool) of the 2nd White Russian Front.

The only change to personal data is his birthplace is now listed as home address, with no mention of his wife-- dead? Divorced?

The citation re-summarizes his war record briefly-- 3 wounds (1 severe, 2 light) and a contusion. Commander of the (Commissar) Officers Company since October 1944

rather disappointingly, this is all boiler-plate about being an excellent officer, disciplined, hard-working, well organized.

5.6.45 by CO of Reserve Commissars Staff, Political Administration 2nd WRF, Major Frolov

no day.6.45 approved by ChiefCommissar of 2nd WRF Lt Gen Okor...(off page-- have to check Steen Ammentorp's website)

22.6.45 noted bestowal by the scribbled 3rd Section officer, Staff of 2nd WRF

What is intersting is that

All Commissars Stick Together.

This was NOT particularly heavy lifting-- certainly not after what he went through in 1942. Certainly he had shed his blood for Mother Russiaa, but THIS was just hanging about Front HQ sending OTHER people to the front. Yet notice where the "gold" sticks-- always around headquarters!!!

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The Lieutenant-General must be Andrei Dmitriyevich Okorokov.

Steen's site has a picture of him:

http://www.generals.dk/general/Okorokov/An...viet_Union.html

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I feely admit to being a little confused here. But it is that time of the academic semester, when professors buried under mountains of unreadable exams confuse easily.

The first recommendation (post 59 etc.) is for his ORS 905,476 4.11.44?

The second recommendation (post 66 etc.) is for OPW1 118,305 22.6.45?

The odd late (duplicate?) third ORS 3,712,970 per 21.2.45 has gone walkabout (or was never awarded?).

So what is this?

Edited December 6, 2007 by Ed_Haynes

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Part 2.

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And the first of the somewhat legible (incredibly thin paper?) endorsements.