Order of the Red Star nr. 40211 was posthumously awarded by Order of the Black Sea Group of Forces of September 30, 1942 to 31- or 32-year-old Private First Class Vasily Danilovich Golotvin, machine-gun layer in the 3rd Machine-Gun Company, 35th Rifle Regiment, 30th Rifle Division, 56th Army, Black Sea Group of Forces, Trans-Caucasus Front.

Golotvin's Red Star citation was drawn up sometime in August 1942. Golotvin was killed in action not long afterward, on September 2, 1942 in the Krasnodar area.

Last name: Golotvin
First name: Vasily
Patronymic: Danilovich
Rank: Private First Class
Position and unit: Gun layer in the 3rd Machine-Gun Company, 35th Rifle Regiment, 30th Rifle Division

Awarded:

Home address: Trans-Caucasus Front. Koksovy Rural Municipality, Belaya Kalitva Raion, Rostov Oblast

1. Year of birth: 1910
2. Place of birth:
3. Party membership and period: Not a member
4. Nationality: Russian
5. Period of service in the Red Army: Since 1910 [sic]
6. Award documents are located in file nr.:

Awards issued:

Other remarks:

Concerning (military rank; first name, patronymic, and last name; position; and name of the troop unit, formation, institution, or installation): Private First Class Vasily Danilovich Golotvin, gun layer in the 3rd Machine-Gun Company, 35th Rifle Regiment, 30th Rifle Division

Name of the award: Order of the Red Star

1. Year of birth: 1910
2. Nationality: Russian
3. Social position and origins: Working class
4. Party affiliation: Not a member
5. Since when in the Red Army: Since November 5, 1941
6. Service in the Civil War: No
7. Wounds and contusions: No
8. Has he been nominated for an award before (if so, when and what for): No
9. Which commendations and awards did he receive and what for: No
10. Service in the White Army or other bourgeois armies and time spent in captivity: No
11. Permanent address: _______________

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

Order of the Red Star nr. 40211, obverse and reverse