Soviet Alexey Maximovich Tsinkin

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AWARD CITATION

1. First, middle and last names Alexey Maximovich Tsinkin

2. Rank Captain of Medical Service

3. Position, unit Medical Company Commander of the 153rd detached medical and sanitary battalion

Is recommended for order of Red Star

4. Year of birth 1913

5. Nationality Russian

6. Party membership CPSU(B) member since January, 1942

7. Participation in the civil war and other military actions aimed at the defense of the USSR (where and when) 1939 ? liberation of Western Byelorussia

1940 ? the war against the White Finns

since March, 1944 ? the 3rd Byelorussian Front

8. Wounds or contusions received during the Patriotic War None

9. In the Red Army since 1935

10. Drafted by what district military commissariat Porkhovsky district military commissariat, Leningrad region

11. Previous awards Red Star, order to 192nd rifle detached Holding the Order of the Red Banner division No 073 of August 25, 1944

12. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family) Natalyino village, Luzhsky district, Leningrad region

Mother Praskovya Ivanovna Tsinkina

I. Brief description of personal feat or merits

When the division was in the offensive to break through the enemy defense to the West of the town of Villunen and to take the town of Tilsit, Captain of Medical Service Tsinkin proved himself a courageous officer and a skillful specialist. In the course of the entire operation, Captain Tsinkin, engaged as a Medical Company Commander, directed all medical work of the battalion in rendering surgical care to the wounded and their evacuation to rear hospitals.

During that period, together with the leading surgeon, Captain Tsinkin performed 68 complex surgeries, and all the wounded were evacuated to rear hospitals after the surgeries. During the above-mentioned combat operation the medical and sanitary battalion admitted 988 wounded, of which 128 men were returned to the ranks due to prompt and skillful treatment.

Captain of Medical Service Tsinkin deserves the government award, order of the Red Star.

February 20, 1945 Commander of the 153rd detached

medical and sanitary battalion

Guards Captain of Medical Service (signed) /Gerschman/

II. Conclusion of the Higher Command

Captain of Medical Service A.M. Tsinkin deserves the government award, order of the Red Star.

Division Surgeon of the 192nd rifle detached Holding the Order of the Red Banner division

Major of Medical Service (signed) /Mumyarchik/

February 22, 1945

I hereby award the order of Red Star

Commander of the 192nd rifle division

Guards Colonel (signed)

/Basanets/

March 10, 1945

III. Conclusion of the Army Military Council

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 awarded under order to the 192nd rifle Orshanskaya Holding the Order of the Red Banner ?? No 0106 of March 17, 1945.

Chief of Personnel Department of the 192nd RD Major (signed) /Trifonov/

March 2?, 1945

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1. Last name, first name, patronymic TSINKIN ALEXEY MAXIMOVICH

3. Nationality

4. What languages, but the native one, knows, to what extent 2. Born on December 25, 1913

Russian None 13. Military rank conferred Year Order No (PCD)

5. Place of birth (by the current administrative division)

Lazarevo village, Elatovsky district, Moscow region

Military Doctor?s Assistant 1939 00637

Senior Lieutenant of medical service March 17, 1943 Main Military-Medical Command 070

Captain of medical service March 7, 1944 ?? 0144

6. Party membership

CPSU(B) member since

Party-membership card

CPSU(B) candidate member from

Non-party man: non-party

Other party membership

Party alteration

14. Participation in campaigns (where and against whom)

Not applicable Date

7. Social position and social origin Employee of peasants origin

8. Occupation (profession)

Zootechnician 15. Wounds and contusions received

none

9. Marital status (family composition and age)

Married. 16. Honorary revolution awards

none

10. Civil education (names of educational institutions)

Zootechnical school, Luban, Leningrad region Data

1931

11. Military education:

a) in the old army None

b) in the Soviet Army Military-medical School, graduated with an excellent mark

1939

12. Political education - None

Photo

Enrolled on service in the Peasants and Workers? Red Army

Place of unit Position Year Month and day By whose order No

Artillery regiment of Artillery Holding the Order of the Red Banner Officers? Command Training Courses, Leningrad MD Red Army Man 1936 November 1

Military-Medical School Cadet 1937 September 1 On training

Assistant of the Chief of combatant department

Commissary, 2nd cl. (signed)

420th rifle regiment 122nd rifle division OR MD Doctor?s Assistant 1939 September 4 PCD 00637

Kirov Military-Medical Academy Student 1940 September 16 PCD 04893

Graduated from Military-Medical Academy 1944 ??

At the disposal of medical ?? of West Front 1944 1973 Main Military-Medical Command 047

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Record card

Order book № 901761

1. Last name: Tsinkin

2. First, middle names: Alexey Maximovich

3. Military rank: Captain of medical service

4. Sex: Male

5. Year of birth: 1913

6. Place of birth: Lazarevo village, Elatovsky district, Moscow region

7. Party membership since: C.P.S.U.(B.) member since 1942

8. Education: higher

9. Nationality: Russian

10. In the Red Army since: September 1935

11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied when awarded: 490th rifle regiment, 192nd rifle division, 39th Army, Senior Doctor of the regiment

12. Current place of service and position: Command of the 76th division of convoy troops of Ministry of Internal Affairs - Chief of medical service

13. Home address of the awardee: 2 Vorovskogo St., Samarkand, Uzbek SSR

14. Record of previous awards

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

Checked

Red Star 800292 Lost Order to 192nd rifle division No 073 of August 25, 1944

Red Star 1175086 Lost Order to 192nd rifle division No 0106 of March 17, 1945

Patriotic War, 2nd cl. 713609 Lost Order to the 39th Army No 0851 of October 16, 1945

For Military Merits 2736515 Perm. cert.

043667 Decree of April 30, 1946

For the Victory Over Germany - 0095943 Decree of May 9, 1945

For Capture of K?nigsberg - 034698 Decree of June 9, 1945

For the Victory Over Japan - 330013 Decree of September 30, 1945

Signature of awardee (signed) ________________________

Data correctness Commander of the 76th division of convoy troops of MIA

and signature of awardee Colonel (signed) /Solomatin/

attested by:

April 15, 1947

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