Soviet Gorbachev saves gorbachev...

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AWARD CARD

Order booklet № 675317

1. Last Name Gorbachev

2. Name and Patronymic Alexander Ivanovich

3. Military Rank Guards Senior Sergeant

4. Sex Male

5. Year of Birth 1925

6. Place of Birth Novosibirsk Region, City Tomsk

7. Party Membership n/a

8. Education Secondary

9. Nationality Russian

10. In the Red Army since 1.1941 till 3.1946

11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at time of awarding 252nd Rifle Division, 23rd Rifle Corps, 4th Guards Army ? Assistant to the Commander of the Commandant's Platoon

12. Place of service and duty position at current time: Student

13. Home address of the awardee: Kabardinsk Autonomous SSR, City Nal?chik, Zachischie, Educational Institute?s Dorm

14. Record of all awards presented:

Name of Orders, Medals Serial Number Numbers of Documents Awarder

Red Star 1186058 Temp.Cert.

E ? 012433 Order of the 252nd Rifle Division № 013/N of 4.2.45

Red Banner 203253 Temp.Cert.

E ? 012434 Order of the 4th Guards Army № 043/N of 23.2.45

? For Bravery? 2290898 Temp.Cert.

E ? 902838 Order of the 252nd Rifle Division № 053/N of 2.6.45

Signature of the awardee (signed) Gorbachev

Correctness of the data and signature of awardee attested by:

Military Commissar of the Kabardin ASSR

Lieutenant Colonel (signed)

4 September 1946 / Glushkov /

3st UKRAINIAN FRONT Secret

O R D E R Copy № 2

of the Troops of the 4th Guards Army

23 February 1945 № 043/N Frontline Army

In name of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for exemplary performance of the commanded battle operations on the front in the battle with the German Invader and for the bravery and courage manifested in these I A W A R D :

ORDER of the RED BANNER

2. Senior GORBACHEV Alexander Section Commander of the

Sergeant Ivanovich Commandant's Platoon of the

Headquarters 252nd Kharkow Red

Banner, Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division

Commander of Armies? Troops

Guards General of the Army (Signed) / Zaharov /

Member of the Military Army Council

Guards Colonel (Signed) / D. Shepilov /

Headquarters? Chief of the Army

Guards General Major (Signed) / K.Derevyanko /

AWARD LIST

1. Last name, name and patronymic Gorbachev Alexander Ivanovich

2. Rank Senior Sergeant

3. Position, unit Section Commander of the Commandant's Platoon of the Headquarters, 252nd Kharkow Red Banner, Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division

Is recommended for the Order of the ? Red Banner ?

4. Year of birth 1925

5. Nationality Russian

6. Party membership n/a

7. Participation in the civil war and other military actions aimed at the defense of the USSR (where and when) Participated in the Patriotic War since June 1941 till September 44 ? Black Sea Military Navy Fleet; since December 1944 - 3rd Ukrainian Front

8. Wounds or contusions received during the Patriotic War Wounded 29.01.42 and 15.08.44

9. In the Red Army since 1940

10. Drafted by what district military commissariat Yeysk Military District Commissariat, Krasnodar Province

11. Previous awards Medal ?Defence of Sevastopol?

12. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family) Stalingrad Region Uryunino, Sport Square House № 10. Mother: Gorbacheva Apfia Makarovna

Brief description of personal feat

On 18.01.1945 the enemy, broke through our defense line with his large tank and infantry forces and leaked in with several tanks directly to the Commander of the Division?s Observation Point. One of the enemy tanks together with tank desant troops, approached closely the place where the Division Commander, General Major Comrade Gorbachev resided. After noticing the Russian General, the commander of that tank opened the hatch and ordered the General to approach them and surrender. In that same moment, the sub-machine gunner Gorbachev A.I., having seen that the General was in risk of capture, opened fire on the enemy?s tank desant troops and killed the enemy officer who wanted to capture the General, giving the opportunity to the General, his officers and soldiers to retreat to the new location of the Observation Point. Thanks to the time advantage that he acquired, Gorbachev continued to cover firing on another tank with tank desant troops, killed another enemy officer and then, bravely shooting, arrived to the new location of the Division Commander. For the altruistic bravery and extraordinary courage manifested in the life-saving act of General Major Comrade Gorbachev, Gorbachev A.I. deserves the governmental award ?Order of the Red Banner?.

Headquarters? Chief of the 252nd Kharkow Red Banner, Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division

Colonel (Signature) /Frolov/

29 January 1945

I present to the order of the ? Red Banner ?.

Commander of the 252nd Kharkow Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division

General Major (Signed) / Gorbachev /

29 January 1945

Awarded with the Order of the Red Banner. Order of the 4th Guards Army № 043/N of 23.2.45

Assistant to the Chief of the 2nd Section of the Rifle Corps

Guards Captain (signed) / Zh. Gulev /

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Gral. Gorbachev

[Guest Rick Research]

It always pays to save The Big Guy.

It also obviously doesn't pay to offer surrender terms nicely. :rolleyes:

[Eric B]

According to generals.dk the general?s full name was Ivan Aleksandrovich Gorbachev.

So we have the case of

Alexander Ivanovich Gorbachev

saving

Ivan Aleksandrovich Gorbachev.

:D

[TacHel]

Sounds like a family affair...

Things that make you go "Hmmmmmmmm..."

I love stories like this. Great stuff!

[hipnos]

It always pays to save The Big Guy.

It also obviously doesn't pay to offer surrender terms nicely.

Do you mean for the german officer in volved in the affair...???

Edited March 30, 2009 by hipnos