Researched Soviet military awards

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)

Researched Soviet military awards

Welcome! On this page you will find a selection of different research results from my personal collection. I have tried to compile an anthology of very different recipients and stories that paint a portrait of the Red Army's wide variety of branches of service, duty positions and reasons to award servicemen: from general to private, from cook to night bomber pilot, and from dockmaster to politician. All documents have been translated from Russian into English. When I have looked up the service record as well, occasionally a summary has been provided at the top of the page.

Researched awards that are part of groups are listed individually, but the entire group is posted on one single page. In order to establish a more complete picture of the individual's wartime career, I have often also posted other citations to the same recipient, even though I do not own the actual corresponding decorations. Pictures of the awards, documents and recipients can be found at the bottom of each page. The symbol "" denotes that there's a picture of the recipient available. The symbol "†" indicates that the recipient was killed in action during the war.

Have a look at this page for a description of the concept and process of researching Soviet military awards.

This page is dedicated to all those brave men and women who did not live to see the end of the war, in particular Alekseyev, Dubrovin, Starov, Boyarintsev, Stepachov, Vinogradov, Golotvin, and Mamoshin.

Award, rank, and name	Branch	Nr.	Location / reason	Award date

Order of Lenin
- Colonel Fyodor Savelyev		285400	Long service	November 5, 1954

Order of the Red Banner
- Lieutenant Dmitry Gotsutsov		49960	Black Sea	November 30, 1942
- Lieutenant Mikhail Ropatsky		75503	East of Oryol	August 8, 1943
- Guards Major Mikhail Galyatkin		77281	East of Belgorod	September 20, 1943
- Major Ivan Shcherbak		95255	South of Smolensk	January 25, 1944
- Senior Lieutenant Ivan Mamoshin †		107213	East of Lvov	April 29, 1944
- Colonel Andrei Pronin		154873	Long service	November 3, 1944
- Guards Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Palgov		209832	South of Warsaw	February 8, 1945
- Major Ivan Korchov		223004	North of Stettin	April 21, 1945
- Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Ivanov-Yelistratov		228801	Baltic Sea	November 5, 1945
- Captain Ivan Sleputin		235600	Northwest of Berlin	May 25, 1945
- Colonel Nikolai Pochitalov		242001	Southeast of Berlin	June 18, 1945

Order of the Red Banner, 2nd award
- Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		23342	Long service	November 5, 1954

Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Guards Lieutenant Aleksandr Shapin		38723	Berlin	June 9, 1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class
- Junior Lieutenant Boris Alekseyev †		43720	Central Ukraine	May 12, 1944
- Lieutenant Colonel Grigory Starov †		49137	East of Pskov	April 30, 1944
- Guards Senior Lieutenant Ivan Vinogradov †		49964	West of Vitebsk	July 7, 1944
- Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Boyarintsev †		50483	Northeast of Kiev	November 19, 1943
- Guards Lieutenant Nikolai Stepachov †		72620	Central Ukraine	December 30, 1943
- Senior Seaman Nikolai Usanov		101671	Kara Sea	December 31, 1944
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		192313	Pomerania	June 4, 1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class
- Guards Major Fyodor Savelyev		44030	West of Dnepropetrovsk	November 17, 1943
- Captain Lev Lvovsky		44303	North Caucasus	November 6, 1943
- Guards Major Vasily Logachov		98320	West of Kiev	February 21, 1944
- Senior Lieutenant Aleksei Dubrovin †		166374	Southeastern Ukraine	October 9, 1943
- Captain of the Medical Service Yevstafy Tsomaya		228908	East of Warsaw	September 27, 1944
- Seaman Ivan Yelnikov		231700	Black Sea	November 17, 1944
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		248637	East Prussia	November 4, 1944
- Major Ivan Andryunin		264509	Riga	November 6, 1944
- Civilian Vasily Kozlov		296650	Northeast of Moscow	February 1, 1945
- Major Georgy Abramov		367211	Latvia	October 6, 1944
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Rakhno		571763	Upper Silesia	November 2, 1945
- Private First Class Fyodor Minayev		587834	Rastenburg, East Prussia	February 22, 1945

Order of the Red Star
- Private Aleksei Khodyuk		17754	Finland	April 11, 1940
- Private First Class Vasily Golotvin †		40211	Western Caucasus	September 30, 1942
- Private Pyotr Voloshin		45073	Eastern Byelorussia	July 15, 1942
- Chief Petty Officer Ivan Mishanin		69503	Black Sea	December 20, 1942
- Senior Lieutenant Yuri Biryukov		76347	Northwest of Stalingrad	December 23, 1942
- Junior Lieutenant Vladimir Lunichenko		82765	South of Moscow	October 30, 1942
- Private Vladimir Ivanov		103683	Stalingrad	February 6, 1943
- Guards Private Ivan Bakteyev		109435	Stalingrad	January 6, 1943
- Major Ivan Shcherbak		130333	South of Vyazma	April 30, 1943
- Senior Lieutenant Ivan Chichevsky		145712	Southeast of Kharkov	April 21, 1943
- Colonel of the Veterinary Service Sergei Borovkov		212772	Southeast of Smolensk	August 27, 1943
- Guards Major Fyodor Savelyev		213445	Prokhorovka (Kursk)	July 28, 1943
- Captain Nester Petrovsky		228814	North of Kursk	August 14, 1943
- Captain Boris Yarogov		341528	Belgorod & Kharkov	September 6, 1943
- Civilian Nikolai Sokirko		406985	Black Sea	January 29, 1944
- Guards Senior Lieutenant Pavel Rumyantsev		457104	Black Sea coast	June 19, 1944
- Major of the Medical Service Moisei Khurgin		497571	East of Leningrad	February 14, 1944
- Major of the Medical Service Rafail Rozental		695997	Southwestern Ukraine	June 2, 1944
- Captain of the Adm. Service Aleksandra Verzhbilovskaya		854680	Long service	November 3, 1944
- Private Nadzhafguli Zulfigarov		1400090	Königsberg	May 18, 1945
- Captain of the Medical Service Nina Cherepantseva		1941935	Central Europe	July 29, 1945
- Major Konstantin Voilochnikov		2095898	Silesia	May 29, 1945
- Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service Lidia Churina		2578194	Southeast of Warsaw	February 18, 1945
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		2928257	Long service	November 15, 1950

Order of Glory, 3rd Class
- Private Vasily Kapustin		234234	Southern Latvia	October 19, 1944
- Guards Junior Sergeant Sergei Plotnikov		477844	Southeast of Berlin	June 6, 1945
- Senior Sergeant Aleksei Rozhkov		544636	Southeast of Leningrad	August 6, 1946

Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- Civilian Salim Khaliulin		9117	Sverdlovsk, Urals	June 3, 1942

Order of the Badge of Honor
- Civilian Mikhail Zinovkin		19099	Nizhny Tagil, Urals	June 5, 1942

Medal for Courage
- Deputy Political Officer Ivan Pishchenko		117508	East of Kharkov	December 19, 1942
- Private Ivan Ionychev		117953	South of Stalingrad	October 26, 1942
- Senior Seaman Zhemal Imalev		144172	Lake Ladoga	March 27, 1943
- Guards Private Aleksandr Koshelev		164652	Stalingrad	January 29, 1943
- Lieutenant of State Security Lev Lvovsky		213647	Western Caucasus	March 15, 1943
- Master Sergeant Mikhail Plaksin		1290486	Sevastopol	May 20, 1944
- Guards Private Georgy Nadirashvili		2106677	Southern Byelorussia	November 23, 1944
- Guards Private Nikolai Golovach		3086881	South of Frankfurt (Oder)	March 31, 1945
- Guards Private Georgy Nadirashvili		3106028	Central Germany	May 29, 1945
- Guards Junior Sergeant Pyotr Korneichuk		3423289	Central Romania	September 27, 1944

Medal for Combat Merit
- Chief Petty Officer Yefim Marushchenko		22861	Leningrad	February 19, 1942
- Military Veterinarian 3rd Grade Aleksei Selegenenko		31620	Southwest of Murmansk	July 23, 1942
- Private Ivan Bondarenko		152143	West of Rzhev	January 12, 1943
- Senior Lieutenant Georgy Bokuchava		225934	Chechnya	January 16, 1943
- Guards Master Sergeant Dmitry Kafanov		298909	East of Rostov	February 14, 1943
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		1406673	Long service	November 3, 1944
- Lieutenant of the Medical Service Antonina Kornilova		2931819	Czechoslovakia	June 11, 1945