Nina Ivanovna Cherepantseva

Nina Ivanovna Cherepantseva

Order of the Red Star nr. 1941935 was awarded by Order of the Southwestern Group of Forces of July 29, 1945 to 27-year-old Captain of the Medical Service Nina Ivanovna Cherepantseva, senior resident physician at Evacuation Hospital nr. 281, 3rd Ukrainian Front.

Promotions	Date
Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service	April 26, 1943
Captain of the Medical Service	April 15, 1945

Award citation

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1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Cherepantseva, Nina Ivanovna
2. Rank: Captain of the Medical Service
3. Position and unit: Senior resident physician at Evacuation Hospital nr. 281

Nominated for: Order of the Red Star

4. Year of birth: 1917
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Not a member
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): Has been participating in the Patriotic War since July 31, 1941 as a resident physician at Evacuation Hospitals nr. 3419 and 1816 and as a senior resident physician at Evacuation Hospital nr. 281 on the Southwestern Front and 3rd Ukrainian Front
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Red Army: July 31, 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the city of Voroshilovgrad
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

Captain of the Medical Service Nina Ivanovna Cherepantseva has been serving as a senior resident physician with the Surgery Section.

Throughout the two years she has been working at Evacuation Hospital nr. 281, comrade Captain Cherepantseva has been acting as head of the Surgery Section and with honor carried out the tasks assigned to her.

All surgical procedures of the Surgery Section, where comrade Cherepantseva works as a senior resident physician, rest on her shoulders. On average she handles up to 200 wounded men simultaneously.

A large number of secondary sutures are applied here as well by comrade Cherepantseva's tender hand. Here one can observe all kinds of reconstructive surgery - early sequestrotomies, necrotomies, and plastic surgeries, all conscientiously carried out by the talented and rising surgeon that is comrade Cherepantseva.

Comrade Captain of the Medical Service Cherepantseva is deserving and worthy of the Order of the Red Star.

Chief of Evacuation Hospital nr. 281
Major of the Medical Service [signed] /Slavin/
May 16, 1945

Cherepantseva's award group, obverse

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