Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Fedorovich Pelushenok

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Award Card. . .

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Reverse. . . Note the Order of Lenin. . .

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Citation. . .

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Reverse. . . and my apologies for the size of the scans. I had to reduce them to meet the size requirement of 110kb. . .

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Service Record. . .

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More. . .

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Still more. . .

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His Order of the Red Star, Nr. 155224. . .

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Record card

Order book № 816461

1. Last name: Pelushenok

2. First, middle names: Vasily Fedorovich

3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel in reserve

4. Sex: Male

5. Year of birth: 1902

6. Place of birth: Dukaro settl., Minsk region, BSSR

7. Party membership since: CPSU (B) member since 1927

8. Education: elementary

9. Nationality: Byelorussian

10. In the Red Army since: since 1919 to 1945

11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied when awarded: Second in Command of regiment on combatant issues. 102nd Guards mechanized 35th Guards division

12. Current place of service and position: temporarily unemployed

13. Home address of the awardee: 17 Karl Libknekht St., apt. 4, Minsk

14. Record of previous awards

Names of orders, medals Their numbers Document numbers Ground for award

Checked

Red Star 155224 Temp. certificate 532825 Order to 10th Army No 0259 of April 23, 1943

Red Banner 224128 Temp. certificate 129108 Decree of the USSR Supreme Council of November 03, 1944

Lenin order 61060 Decree of November 06, 1945

20th Anniversary of the Workers? and Peasants? Red Army Decree of February 22, 1938

For the Victory Over Germany

Signature of awardee (signed) ________________________

Data correctness

and signature of awardee Kogonovichsky district military commissar

attested by: Lieutenant Colonel of executive department (signed)

May 28, 1944

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Brief description of personal feat or merits

Lieutenant Colonel, comrade Pelushenok V.F. was one of those who took part in organization of the brigade. As a brigade commissar and later on as a second in command on political issues he made great efforts to establish Party and Komsomol organization of the brigade and to promote combat training. In battles as a member of the 16th Army at Kozelsk and in further separate operations as a member of the 10th Army he proved himself firm and resolute fighter. He is skilled in tactics, politically trained, he is quick to familiarize himself with the environment, he is able to take a correct decision on tactics and he is skilled in tactics. He can teach crew principles of loyalty to Lenin - Stalin party and Motherland.

He deserves to be awarded with the ?Red Star? order.

Participant of the Patriotic War from its beginning.

Commander of the 9th fighting brigade

Colonel (signed) /Gasparyan/

April 03, 1943

II. Conclusion of the Higher Command

III. Conclusion of the Army Military Council

Deserves to be awarded with the ?Red Star? order

(signed)

IV. Conclusion of the Front Military Council

V. Conclusion of the Award Commission of the People?s Commissariat of Defense

VI. Award Record

Order of the Red Star was awarded under order to the 10th Army No 0259 of April 28, 1943.

[Ed_Haynes]

You must have a pipeline to The Researcher! :envy:

(Need to send him ANOTHER e-mail.)

[Bill Garvy]

Actually no, this last batch came in all at once, and I don't need to tell you how long I waited, and how many more requests that are pending. I have one more, actually three, but I have to scan two of the the Red Stars. The next one I had already scanned. . .