Soviet Private Mikhail Nikolaevich Klimov

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Award Card. . .

Award Card

Order Booklet G 695613

1. Last name: Klimov

2. Name and patrionymic: Mikhail Nikolaevich

3. Rank: Corporal

4. Gender: Male

5. Birthyear: 1913

6. Birthplace: Drogobuzh Oblast, Merenitskii Region, village of Letne

7. Party membership: n/a

8. Education: elementary

9. Nationality: Ukrainian

10. Time in Red Army: 8.1944-11.1945

11. Place of service at awarding: 176 Rifle Division, 465 Rifle Regiment – Machinegun Crew Leader

12. Place of work at present: Communications Section, village of Lotne, Marenitskii Region, Drogobich Oblast - Chief

13. Home address: Drogobich Oblast, Merenitskii Region, village of Letne

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14. Awards:

Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Glory III 350078 60 Army dated 20.5.1945

Glory II 38256 167 Rifle Division dated 3.12.44

(overwritten Edict dated 31.3.56)

Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.45

Verified by Merenitskii Regional Military Commissariat Lieutenant Colonel Fomenko dated 2 June 1956

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Edited September 19, 2009 by Bill Garvy

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This award card dated April 5th, 1955 captures the same information as above, yet mentions an Order Booklet Nr. 457449 and adds a Bravery Medal Nr. 3588372, awarded by the 465th Rifle Regiment on October 30th, 1944, and an unnumbered Order of Glory III awarded by the 167th Rifle Division on December 3rd, 1944.

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This award card, dated March 18, 1946, lists his assignment in the 4th Ukrainian Front, 60th Army, 9th Independent Battalion, and was subsequently overwritten in 1956 to reflect the awarding of an Order of Glory II Class by an Edict of the Supreme Soviet dated March 31st, 1956 for an Order of Glory III Class awarded by the 60th Army.

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An undated, abbreviated award card verifies the awarding of a Glory III Class by the 60th Army dated May 20th, 1945 was annulled and substituted for an Order of Glory II Class by Edict of the Supreme Soviet dated March 31st, 1956.

Edited September 19, 2009 by Bill Garvy

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This abbreviated award card dated April 4th, 1956 verifies the information stated immediately above.

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Citation. . .

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Detail of narrative & translation. . .

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Klimov, Mikhail Nikolaevich

2. Rank: Private

3. Duty position: Gun Crew Commander – 1 Machinegun Company, 465 Rifle Regiment, 167 Sumy-Kiev Twice Red Banner Rifle Division

Recommendation for the Order of Glory III Class

4. Born: 1913

5. Nationality: Ukrainian

6. Party membership: n/a

7. Previous combat: since August 1944 on the 4 Ukrainian Front

8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a

9. Time in Red Army: since 1944

10. Inducted by: Medinichii Regional Military Commissariat, Drogobych Oblast

11. Previous awards: n/a

12. Home of record: Drogobych Oblast, Medinichii Region, village of Letne. Wife – Irina Stepanovna

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Fighting during continuous enemy artillery and mortar fire in difficult, mobility-restricted, mountainous-forested terrain near the population centers of Ruske and Velka Polyana, Private Klimov advanced forward of the fighting positions and by capably changing firing positions, he suppressed one enemy firing position with accurate machinegun bursts and killed as many as 35 German soldiers, thus permitting the freedom of movement to our advancing small units.

Comrade Klimov is deserving of the Order of Glory III Class.

Signed Regimental Commander, Major Taratukhin and Chief of Staff, Major Blinov on 12.11.44

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Endorsed the Division Commander Colonel on 1 December 1944 (largely illegible due to out of focus image)

Awarded the Order of Glory III Class by Order 91/N of the 167 Sumy-Kiev Twice Red Banner Rifle Division as verified by the Chief of Personnel Captain Gubin

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Order of Glory, 2nd Class, Nr. 38256. . .

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Reverse. . .

Although initially uncertain of the number, thinking it may have been 38956, a visual comparison with Orders of Glory 38254 and 38224 revealed an exact match as to the engraving style of the "2". . .

My thanks to Alexi Merezhko and Paul Schmitt. . .

Edited September 19, 2009 by Bill Garvy