Mukhtarb Moiseevich Dzugutov

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Designation	Serial Number	Document Number	Awarding Organization
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class	92784	Order Book 140926	Decree of 13.3.1944
Medal For Combat Service	1778799	Temporary Certificate 163060	Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 3.11.1944
Medal For Victory Over Germany	-	Temporary Certificate No.0148568	Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 9.5.1945

 

Award Card 

Order Booklet: 140926

1.  Last name:  Dzugutov
2. Name and patronymic: Mukhtarben Moiseevich
3. Rank: Senior Lieutenant 
4. Gender: Male 
5. Birthyear: 10^th May 1912
6. Birthplace: North-Ossetia Oblast Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Right Bank of the river, village of Old Batakoyurt
7. Party membership: Party member since 09.1944
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Ossetian
10. Time in Red Army: Since April 1933
11. Place of service at awarding: Aircraft Commander - 1^st Red Banner Ferry Aviation Division of the Civil Air Fleet
12. Place of work at present: Detachment Commander – 19^th Independent Ferry Aviation Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet
13. Home address: Moscow Oblast, Old Doleoprudial, 2 Soviet Street, Apartment 2
14. Awards: 
 

Signature of the awardee: [signed]
 

Verified by the head of department for combatants and staff of the 19^th Independent Ferry Aviation Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet
 

[signed] / Skripnichenko

 

 

 

 

 

 

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patronymic:  Dzugutov, Mukhtarb Moiseevich
2. Rank:  Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Aircraft Commander, 1^st Ferry Aviation Regiment, 1^st Ferry Aviation Division

Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War 1^st Class

4. Born:  1912
5. Nationality:  Ossetian
6. Party membership:  Party Candidate since 1939
7. Previous combat: Participated in the Patriotic War from 22.6.1941 to August 1942 on the Leningrad & Western fronts
8. Wounds or shell-shock: None
9. In Red Army:  Since 1941. In the Civil Air Fleet since 1933
10. Inducted by: Arrived from the Civil Air Fleet
11. Previous awards:  None
12. Home of record:  [trans:  entry intentionally obscured] 

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment      

Comrade Dzugutov participated in the Patriotic War on the Leningrad and Western fronts, where he made 40 combat sorties in the LI-2 aircraft, of which 20 missions were on the front lines and 7 were in the rear of the enemy, 3 of which involved landing in territory occupied by the enemy. He has flown for 250 hours.

Comrade Dzugutov has been working on the routes since August 1942 as commander of a C47 Aircraft, transporting flight personnel of the ferrying regiment, importing cargo and ferrying in the C47 aircraft.

During this period, Comrade Dzugutov in the challenging conditions of the extreme north, flying on all sections of the route, which is over 5000km, has made more than 200 flights and has flown in the C47 for 1200 hours. He has transported 150 tonnes of imported cargo and 1100 passengers. Furthermore, comrade Dzugutov on the route from Fairbanks*-Uelkal ferried back 30 C47 aircraft, a route length of 1400km.

He is an excellent pilot who flies in the day time, at night and in adverse weather conditions. He has logged 4000 flying hours. He is a disciplined and competent officer.

For the personal completion of 40 combat missions in the Patriotic War, for his dedication and excellent work on the route in the ferrying of aircraft, transport of flight crews and importing of cargo he is worthy of the government award the Order of the Patriotic War 1^st Class.

 

Commander of the 1^st Ferry Aviation Division

Hero of the Soviet Union Colonel / [signed] / Mazuruk

20^th December 1943

 

 

 

Service record

 

 

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Dzugutov, Mukhtarbek Moiseevich

2. Date and Place of Birth: 10^th March 1912, Village of Old Batakoyurt, Right Bank. North Ossetian SSR

3. Nationality: Ossetian

4. Knowledge of foreign languages and level of mastery: Russian

5. Social status and background: Worker from a peasant background

6. Party affiliation

Member of the Communist Party since: 1944

Party membership booklet nr: 3822588

Candidate member of the Communist Party since:

Member of the Komsomol since:

Not a party member:

Membership of other parties:

Party penalties and changes in party affiliation:

7. Education

General education: School for Factory Training 1932

Military education (indicate full names of all military educational institutions, month and year of graduation, and whether a full or accelerated course was attended): 1^st Aviation School non-military training course in 1936

Political education: None

8. Participation on which fronts: Leningrad Front from July 1941 to September 1941 & Western Front from October 1941 to August 1942

9. Wounds and Contusions: None

10. Awards (orders and medals): Order of the Patriotic War 2^nd Class in 1944, Medal for Combat Service in 1945, Medal for the Defence of Moscow 1943, Medal for Victory over Germany 1945

11. Has he been in captivity or surrounded; when, where and for how long (if he was surrounded, only note escapes separate from his unit): No

 

[note] Civilian Occupation: Therapist

12. Registration Numbers:

13. Registered at which Military Commissariat: Molotov Region Military Commissariat, City of Tbilisi, Georgian SSR

14. Military promotions	By whose order	Order nr.	Date
Guards Senior Lieutenant	Long Range Aviation Command	05	4.1.1944
Captain		043/6	27.9.52
Major		0202	9.11.59

 

15. Personnel category: Commanding Officers Reserve: 1st rank

16. Branch of service: Aviation Military Occupational Speciality: 89

17. State of health: Healthy

18. Attended training:

19. Place of service and position (or nature of activities outside military service? Georgian SSR, Civil Air Fleet, Aircraft Commander

20. Family situation and home address: Wife – Dzugutova Ranas Nesendskova, Daughter – Svetlana 1940, Daughter – Tatyana 1947. 10 Kiev Street

21. Special remarks: Military ID issued Molotov Region Military Commissariat, City of Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. With ID no “Zh” 0D82D

22. Service in the Red Army:

 

Name of the position	Name of the unit	By whose order	Order nr.	Date
Aircraft Commander	Independent Aviation Detachment, Red Banner Baltic Fleet			9.7.41 to 9.41
Worker	Flight Center			9.41 to 10.41
Copilot	10th Aviation Transport Division			10.41 to 6.42
Aircraft Commander	10th Aviation Transport Division			6.42 to 8.42
Aircraft Commander	1st Aviation Transport Division			8.42 to 04.45
Aircraft Commander	19th Aviation Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet			4.45 to 11.45
Commander of the 1st Squad	19th Aviation Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet			11.45 to 8.46
Aircraft Commander	18th Aviation Regiment, Georgian Control Centre			8.46 to 9.46

 

Regional Military Commisar

Lieutenant Colonel / [signed] / Khiptividze

11.1945

Head of the 3^rd Section

Captain / [signed] / Kharebavach

23. Transferred to the reserve of the 1st category with the rank of Guards Senior Lieutenant, in accordance with Article 085 of 28^th September 1946

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference Card for Pilots and Reserve Pilots of Air Force of the Red Army

 

Family name: Dzugutov

Name: Mukhtarbek

Patronymic: Moiseevich

Commander of the Air force with Military Speciality No.1

Of the Sverdlovsk Regional Military Commissariat, Sverdlovsk Region

Communist Party candidate since 1939, Booklet No.19638A

Born: Old Batakoyurt, North Ossetian Autonomous Republic in 1912

Background: Peasant

Social Status: Labourer

Military Education: Bataysky Flying School in 1936

 

1. Flying on what type of Aircraft: U2 & P5

2. What class pilot: 3^rd

3. Total flying time by aircraft type: P5 = 60 Hours, U2 = 1340 Hours

4. Name of the organization and position. which carries flight service: Sverdlovsk, 206 Squadron Commander

5. Airworthiness for service on health grounds: Fit

6. Attended training:

7. On which type of aircraft and to which reserve queue does he belong: Bomber. 1^st queue

8. Conclusions of the Commission:

Attributed to the Military Speciality: “1”

or to strike off the register of the Air Force reserve: -

 

Chairman of the Commission: Dzugutov

Commission members: Alekya

 

22^nd May 1940

 

 

"On the morning September 10, 1941 it was cool and overcast. At the Central Airport of the capital, where I arrived to fly into besieged Leningrad, the plane loomed on the runway and there stood 3 figures: First - Lieutenant General M.S Khozina; Second - Major General I. Fedyuninsko; Third – the pilot & commander of the airship.

The commander reported on the readiness of the crew and aircraft to fly. As happens in such cases, all of us, as if on cue, raised our eyes to the heavens, mentally trying to predict the weather on the flight path. There were thick, low clouds.

“This weather is the most suitable to fly over the front of the enemy” said the commander of the aircraft, smiling.

Immediately we took flight. Ahead was Leningrad, and mentally we were already there”

In the low cloud & rain, pilot Lebedev took the plane. If the weather on the way over Lake Ladoga remained the same, they could fly without any cover. The calculation was based on the fact that enemy fighters do not fly in such weather and the experienced Aeroflot crew would safely reach Leningrad.

But over Ladoga, the weather brightened. Zhukov decided to go back and take a fighter escort as cover. The 160th Fighter Regiment was ordered to accompany the transport aircraft squadron.

Aleksandr Petrovich Silant'ev, at that time Lieutenant, was one of those who participated in this assignment.

“Our regiment was then based in Sarozhe” recalls Silant'ev. “Flights that day were not planned because of bad weather, but suddenly at dawn the squadron raised the alarm we were ordered to fly immediately to a nearby airfield at Kayvaksa.

After a short flight and landing the fighters met, and it seemed strange air group commander Colonel E. Kholzyakov was personally responsible for the organization of receiving the aircraft. He was gesticulating vigorously, showing where to stand by our machines.

A few minutes later landed the regiment commander, Major J. Drozd and his deputy, regiment navigator, Captain N. Panyukov.

The pilots wondered why they had flown to Kayvaksa so quickly. And why had those with such high ranks flown in also?

Then a "Douglas" Aircraft descended from the skies. It taxied to the edge of the forest and stopped not far from us. His motors silenced and the aircraft door opened. A technician appeared in the doorway and attached an iron ladder to the fuselage. From the airplane descended generals in new coats. Then, a stocky man of medium height stepped out of the plane. He was wearing a light brown leather coat without buttonholes and insignia and a khaki cap on his head. The Generals immediately respectfully turned to him and he nodded in response, as if allowing that they can now act freely and he walked away silently, hands clasped behind his back, lost in his own thoughts, walking along the edge of the forest.

Kholzyakov immediately rushed to him. After hearing Kholzyakov, the man in a leather coat approached the generals. And then I looked more closely and gasped: Was that Army General Zhukov? And I remembered the photo that stood in a stand in the Officers quarters in the garrison at the town of Balbasovo near Orsha, where our 160th Fighter Regiment was based before the war. It was a memorable photograph of a soldier with a large head, characteristic face and chest with a pair of binoculars. It was a photograph depicting Zhukov during the events at Khalkhin-Gol.

The high ranked officers conducted a short meeting. Zhukov said something to Kholzakov, and he came over to the fighter pilots and very clearly stated our mission: to accompany the "Douglas" in to Leningrad and landing at the airfield.

We took off without delay. The clouds floated almost over the treetops. Drizzling rain washed down the planes canopy, worsening the already poor visibility. We flew, hugging the ground. By the shores of Lake Ladoga, between the mouths of the rivers Volkhov and Svir the clouds ends abruptly and the sun shone brightly. The commander of the "Douglas" decided to continue flying over the middle of the lake, staying away from Schliesselburg which was occupied by the Germans.

"We were flying low over Lake Lagoda. As we approached the lake the clouds began to dissipate, the lake completely brightened and the anxiety of the crew increased. When we weren’t even half way across the lake, co-pilot Dzugutov reports he sees a group of "Messers” on the Horizon. It was clear at this point that the enemy had also noticed us. At this point, our "hawks" went to intercept the enemy and thwarted the attack. The fighting raged over us…

The tangle of this fiery carousel gradually shifted to the northwest, towards the Karelian Isthmus. Everything indicated that the air battle was coming to an end and the last moments were happy ones for me. One of the enemy fighters whether due to the pilot’s inexperience, by accident or perhaps because of a lack of vigilance was in my sights after a drawn out manoeuvre. I immediately pulled the trigger. The last volley from my machine guns hit the "Messer" several times and it began throwing flames from its nose, leaving behind him a plume of smoke as he pulled toward the ground.

After losing their fighters the heat from the Nazis cooled off considerably and they rushed to leave the battlefield, ducking into a grey veil of clouds...

The escort fulfilled its task: we intercepted eight ME-109, tying them into a fight and didn’t allow them to get close to the transport aircraft. But the mission would only be considered complete on the condition that the "Douglas" landed at the Leningrad airport. We kept going in the direction of Leningrad and after that there were no more complications along the way. We landed at the airfield and the “hawks” landed behind us.

 

 

The Order:

 

 

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