Ivan Sergeyevich Shcherbak

Ivan Sergeyevich Shcherbak

The Shcherbak group consists of the following:

Order of the Red Banner nr. 95255
Order of the Red Banner 2nd award nr. 23342
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class nr. 192313
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class nr. 248637
Order of the Red Star nr. 130333
Order of the Red Star nr. 2928257
Medal for Combat Merit nr. 1406673
Medal for the Defense of Moscow
Order booklet

All were awarded to Colonel Ivan Sergeyevich Shcherbak, chief of the Section for the Utilization of the Experience of War of the Western Front's 33rd Army and later the 2nd Belorussian Front's 49th Army.


Promotions	Date
Lieutenant	November 6, 1937
Senior Lieutenant	November 6, 1940
Captain	April 1, 1942
Major	December 7, 1942
Lieutenant Colonel	January 29, 1944
Colonel	April 4, 1952

Record card

Order booklet nr. 465700

1. Last name: Shcherbak
2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Sergeyevich
3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1911
6. Place of birth: Village of Karane, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky Raion, Kiev Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1939
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: 1933
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the Section for the Study and Utilization of the Experience of the Great Patriotic War of the 49th Army
12. Current place of service and position: Lecturer and consultant on military training at the Red Army Officers' Club of the Kiev District
13. Home address of the awardee: __ Petropavlovskaya Street, Svyatoshino, city of Kiev

14. List of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal	Serial number	Number of the document	Ground of award
Order of the Red Star	130333	Temporary certificate nr. 418623	Order of the 33rd Army nr. 0163 of April 30, 1943
Order of the Red Banner [citation]	95255	Temporary certificate nr. A-424264	Order of the 33rd Army nr. 030 of January 25, 1944
Medal for Combat Merit	1406673	Temporary certificate nr. 077878	Decree of November 3, 1944
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class	248637	Temporary certificate nr. G-483663	Order of the 49th Army nr. 0143 of November 4, 1944
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class	192313	Temporary certificate nr. Ye-741141	Order of the 49th Army nr. 091 of June 4, 1945
Order of the Red Star	2928257	465700	Decree of November 15, 1950
Order of the Red Banner	23342 (#2)		Decree of November 5, 1954
Medal for the Defense of Moscow		Permanent certificate nr. O-000197	Decree of May 1, 1944
Medal for the Victory over Germany		Permanent certificate nr. Z-0179501	Decree of May 9, 1945

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

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

Chief of the 3rd Section of the Personnel Department of Kiev Military District
Major [signed] /Solod/
January 29, 1946

Award sheet

All fields to be filled out fully

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Shcherbak, Ivan Sergeyevich
2. Rank: Major
3. Position and unit: Senior assistant chief of the 1st Section of the Operations Department of the 33rd Army

Nominated for: Order of the Red Banner

4. Year of birth: 1911
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
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 December 1941
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: Wounded in his hand on December 23, 1943
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1933
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Pereyaslav Raion
11. Previous awards (for which achievements): Order of the Red Star
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and his family's address: _______________

Brief, concrete description of his feat of arms or achievements:

Major I.S. Shcherbak is an excellent officer who is actively involved in organizing the Army's combat operations. Directly among the frontline units he repeatedly verified if combat instructions from Army command were carried out. While carrying out an assignment in the 199th Rifle Division on December 23, 1943 he was wounded, but he stayed with the Division until the battle had ended, having successfully accomplished the task assigned to him.

He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Chief of the Operations Department of the 33rd Army
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Tolkonyuk/
January 12, 1944

Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Sergeyevich Shcherbak

Ivan Sergeyevich Shcherbak, left as a Lieutenant, right as a Lieutenant Colonel

Shcherbak's award group, obverse

Shcherbak's award group, reverse

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