Soviet Red Star to a cool Quartermaster!

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Record card Record card Order booklet nr. A-012856

1. Last name: Priymak

2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Yevdokimovich

3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel of the Quartermaster Service

4. Sex: Male

5. Year of birth: 1909

6. Place of birth: Village of Krasivoye, Alekseyevka Raion, Kharkov Oblast

7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1941

8. Education: Secondary, unfinished

9. Nationality: Ukrainian

10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: Since 1934

11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the Quartermaster Section of military unit nr. 74402

12. Current place of service and position: Unemployed, retired

13. Home address of the awardee: 44 Schmidt Street, apartment 16, city of Sverdlovsk

14. Record of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal Serial number Number of the document Ground of award

Medal for Courage 51427 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the Southwestern Front nr. 042/N of February 23, 1942

Medal for Combat Merit 1585066 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 3, 1944

Order of the Red Star 1464657 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945

Order of the Red Star 2928960 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 15, 1950

Order of the Red Banner 443010 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 5, 1954

Medal for the Victory over Germany

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Officer of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Captain [signed] /Grekhov/ February 5, 1955

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Award sheet

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Priymak, Ivan Yevdokimovich

2. Rank: Major of the Quartermaster Service

3. Position and unit: Chief of staff of a reserve airfield servicing battalion of the 8th Air Army [corrected from Chief of the Procurement Group for Agricultural Products in Polish and German Territory] Nominated for: Order of the Red Star

4. Year of birth: 1909

5. Nationality: Russian

6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party

7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War since 1941

8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No

9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1934

10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Lozavaya Raion, city of Lozovaya, Kharkov Oblast

11. Awards received previously (for which merits): Medal for Courage and Medal for Combat Merit

12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

Comrade Priymak has been serving with the army's Quartermaster Supply Section since April 1945, having been transferred from the officers' reserve of the army's Personnel Section. Being an old and experienced administrator, he was appointed chief of the procurement group tasked with procuring agricultural products and meat in Polish and German territory.

Heading the procurement group during this period, comrade Priymak showed himself an excellent procurement organizer. He properly assigned his subordinate officers and soldiers and under his leadership 310 heads of cattle and 200 tons of food grain were procured.

Comrade Priymak is a disciplined and cultured officer. He is morally stalwart and capably of keeping military secrets.

He is dedicated to the Party of Lenin and Stalin and the socialist motherland. He deserves the Order of the Red Star.

Chief of the Quartermaster Supply Section of the 8th Air Army Major of the Quartermaster Service [signed] /Neglyad/ May 15, 1945

I agree with the characterization; he deserves the Order of the Red Star.

Deputy commander for rear area affairs of the 8th Air Army Major General of Aviation

[signed] /Malyshev/ May 19, 1945

By Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945 awarded the Order of the Red Banner [sic].

Senior assistant chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Personnel Section of the 8th Air Army Major

[signed] /Belyayev/

[Aurelius]

Yo Tom, this is a cool write up with the moo cows and grain. Nice one buddy!

"Capable of keeping secrets".lol Or else if not capable get shot after visit from SMERSHY.lol

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That's the line that interested me the most.

I read it as "Comrade Primyak is well aware of how little food we have, but he won't let anyone else know how up the creek we are. Here's an Order for keeping schtum"

[Paul R]

That is a unique and awesome write up. Lots of great long service awards too(Combat Service Medal, ORS, and ORB).