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    Posted

    Award Card and translation. . .

    Award Card

    Order Booklet 361343

    1. Last name: Mitroshin

    2. Name and patrionymic: Aleksandr Sazonovich

    3. Rank: Captain

    4. Gender: Male

    5. Birthyear: 1910

    6. Birthplace: Saratov Oblast, Makarov Region, village of Yusupovo

    7. Party membership: since 1939

    8. Education: elementary

    9. Nationality: Russian

    10. Time in Red Army: 12.1934-12.1936, since 6.1941

    11. Place of service at awarding: 146 Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 48 Army, 3 Belorussian Front – Mortar (?) Commander

    12. Place of work at present: Kirov Oblast, Salobelyanskii Region, Regional Military Commissar

    13. Home address: Kirov Oblast, Salobelyanskii Region, village of Salobelyak

    Posted

    Award Card reverse and translation. . .

    14. Awards:

    Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

    Red Banner 199.994 13 Army dated 12.10.43

    Red Star 1.241.011 48 Army dated 15 July 1944

    Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.45

    Capture of Koenigsberg Medal Edict dated 9.6.45

    Verified by Chief of Kirov Oblast Military Commissariat, Major Devyatov on 19 February 1946

    Posted

    Citation and translation. . .

    Award Sheet

    1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Mitroshin, Aleksandr Sazonovich

    2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant

    3. Duty position: Company Commander – 146 Army Reserve Rifle Regiment

    Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star

    4. Born: 1910

    5. Nationality: Russian

    6. Party membership: yes

    7. Previous combat: Patriotic War participant since 22 June 1941

    8. Wounds or shell-shock: two serious, one light

    9. Time in Red Army: since 1941

    10. Inducted by: Manorov Regional Military Commissariat, Saratov Oblast

    11. Previous awards: n/a

    12. Home of record: Saratov Oblast, Manarov Region, Perevesenskaya Tractor Station

    Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

    In fighting for Zhlobin on 26.06.44, A.S. Mitroshin and his company conducted a forced river crossing of the Dnepr, crossed an enemy mine field and wire obstacle, rushed into the southern edge of Zhlobin, and developing the attack, engaged in street fighting, thus permitting the advance of other units.

    He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

    Signed Commander, Composite Detachment, 146 Reserve Rifle Regiment, Major Gorlov on 5 July 1944

    Posted

    Citation reverse with translation. . .

    Endorsed Commander, 146 Reserve Rifle Regiment, Guards Colonel Loshakov and Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Rubanovich

    Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order 48/N of the 48 Army dated 19 July 1944

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    Bill-- this is one BIZARRE group. If I was reading that Orders Book, I'd take the Red Star scribble to be "124,104" not 1,241,011...

    the November 1943 privileges date (i.e. first award October) doesn't match either serial number range...

    the Red Banner 199,994 is right smack SOLIDLY in the November 1944 long service range..

    and yet

    :speechless1::speechless1::speechless1::speechless1::speechless1:

    You've got the records back PROVING that those numbers ARE what they are and GO TOGETHER.

    I'm stumped. :banger:

    All I can think of is that for some BIZARRE reason BOTH of his awards were long long delayed, and what he FINALLY got HANDED were much later numbered awards from much earlier approvals.

    Posted (edited)

    Interesting hypothesis. . . I too thought it was 124104, but on closer inspection. . .

    You have to love Soviet record keeping. Now, if I could only find his Order of the Red Banner. . .

    Edited by Bill Garvy
    Posted

    This is a great thing about research: the research confirms that the order booklet is OK, that the Red Star S/N is 1241011, and that his Red Banner simply was a delayed award... The actual handing out of the Red Banner took probably place at the same time as his Red Star, July 1944, the right time for a Red Star with such a S/N...

    Great. :cheers:

    • 2 weeks later...
    Posted

    Translation of biographical pages. . .

    Biography Sheet

    1. Last name, name, patrionymic: Mitroshin, Aleksandr Sazonovich

    2. Time and place of birth: 15.08.1910. Village of Yusupovo, Makarov Region, Saraganov Oblast

    3. Nationality: Russian

    4. Knowledge of foreign languages: n/a

    5. Social standing: office worker from peasant family

    6. Party membership: since 1939 ID #2497427

    7. Education: sixth grade in 1925 village of Zubrilovka, Saratov Oblast. Mortar-Machinegun Academy (6 mos) 1942 in Alma-Aty [trans: now Almaty, Kyrgyzstan]

    8. Participation in combat: Western Front 6.41-8.41, Voronezh Front 10.42-3.43, Central Front 5.43-8.43, 1 Belorussian Front 1.44-7.44, 2 Belorussian Front 10.44-3.45, 3 Belorussian Front 3.45-5.45

    9. Wounds or shell-shock:

    10. Decorations: RB 10.43, RS 7.44, Koenigsberg Medal, Victory over Germany Medal

    11. Captive or encircled:

    12. ID:

    13. On file: (?)dimelskoe Regional Military Commissariat

    14. Promotion: Captain by 2 Belorussian Front on 1.3.1945

    15. Category: Commander, 1 Degree

    16. Branch of service: Artillery, Specialty #20

    17. Health condition: healthy

    18. Mobilizations:

    19. Place of employment and duty: Moldovan SSR (?) Canning Factory – Section Chief

    20. Family status: married, wife – Mitroshin, Lyudmilla Fedorovna b.1922; MSSR [trans: illegible]

    21. Special remarks: Military ID P-15500

    22. Service

    Cadet Regimental School, 96 RR, 32 RD, (?), Eastern Region

    Deputy Platoon Leader Same as above

    MG Platoon Leader 59 Independent Ski Battalion, 18 Rifle Division, Finnish War

    Recon Platoon Leader 465 RR, 60 RD, 21 Army, Western Front

    Medical Convalescence Evac Hospital #2446 in Petropavlovsk

    Cadet 118 RR, 32 Reserve RBde

    Cadet Higher Mortar-MG Academy, Alma-Ata

    Deputy Mortar Company CDR 1885 RR, 322 RD, 60 Army, Voronezh Front

    Medical Convalescence Medical Battalion, 322 RD, Voronezh Front

    23. Released to reserves:

    24. Retired:

    25. Remarks:

    [trans: Another, similar though brief biography card adds the following information:

    22. Service

    Mortar Company Commander 322 RD, 60 Army, Central Front

    Medical Convalescence Evacuation Hospital #5184

    Mortar Training Company Commander 146 Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 48 Army, 1 BeF

    Medical Convalescence Evacuation Hospital #25755

    Mortar Training Company Commander 146 Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 48 Army, 2 BeF

    Mortar Battalion Commander 146 Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 48 Army 3 BeF (as of 18.5.45)

    Regional Military Commissariat Solobelyanskii Regional Military Commissariat, Baltic Military District (as of 31.12.45)

    Verified by Guards Major Zagrebelnii and Captain (?)

    23. Released to the reserves, 1 Category in the rank of Captain by Order of the Baltic Military

    District dated 15.4.46

    My thanks to Paul Schmitt!

    Guest Rick Research
    Posted

    Word missing in translation in your post #19 for line 22) is FAR Eastern Region (Regimental Cadet School etc)

    Sorry, simply can't SEE dark gray print on almost as dark gray "black and white" pages with my eye.

    • 1 month later...
    Posted

    Interesting! Of the Red Banner - 1945 \ №199.994 \ previously could not.

    Interesting that the paper in 1943 issued an interim certificate, which necessarily indicate № .. but it can not be so great ... It turns out that he lost and received in 1945, № 199 994.

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