Researched Soviet World War Two-era awards

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

Hannah Arendt (1906—1975)

Researched Soviet World War Two-era awards

Welcome! On this page you will find a selection of research results for World War Two era Soviet awards from my personal collection. I have tried to portray a wide variety of different recipients and stories that together paint a portrait of the Red Army's broad array of branches of service, the variety of battles it fought, and the wildly varying 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. Occasionally additional biographical information on the award recipient 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 when 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 a picture of the recipient is 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 Boris Alekseyev, Vladimir Boyarintsev, Grigory Volkov, Aleksei Dubrovin, Vasily Golotvin, Iosif Kazakov, Ivan Mamoshin, Grigory Starov, Nikolai Stepachov, and Ivan Vinogradov.

In addition to the list below, I am building three thematic pages that present multiple awards sharing one common theme:
Northern Fleet Lend-Lease minesweepers (8 awards)	Tank Factory nr. 183 (4 awards)	Posthumous decorations (7 awards)

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
- Captain Lieutenant Grigory Kozin		14986	Barents Sea	February 22, 1943
- Lieutenant Nikolai Salikov		37556	Black Sea	December 9, 1942
- 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
- Captain Mikhail Ryabushev		116746	Karelian Isthmus	July 13, 1944
- Colonel Andrei Pronin		154873	Long service	November 3, 1944
- Lieutenant Mikhail Zaretskikh		160318	Southeastern Poland	December 22, 1944
- Senior Lieutenant Aleksandr Khlystun		177011	Crimea	December 22, 1944
- Guards Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Palgov		209832	South of Warsaw	February 8, 1945
- Major Ivan Korchov		223004	North of Stettin	April 21, 1945
- Colonel Mikhail Potapov		225403	Königsberg	May 16, 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
- Lieutenant Nikolai Salikov		3286	Black Sea	June 10, 1942
- Rear Admiral Boris Popov		5888	Long service	November 5, 1946
- Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		23342	Long service	November 5, 1954

Order of Alexander Nevsky
- Guards Major Aleksandr Romanov		33508	Long-Range Aviation	May 16, 1945
- Guards Lieutenant Aleksandr Shapin		38723	Berlin	June 9, 1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class
- Guards Captain Gavriil Argunov		42014	South of Leningrad	March 8, 1944
- 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
- Junior Lieutenant Aleksei Romanov		189456	Northern Poland	April 30, 1945
- Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Shcherbak		192313	Pomerania	June 4, 1945

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class
- Senior Lieutenant Iosif Kazakov		18032	Barents Sea	December 21, 1943
- 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
- Guards Senior Technical Lieutenant Yevgeny Lapin		107206	Byelorussia	July 25, 1944
- Senior Lieutenant Aleksei Dubrovin		166374	Southeastern Ukraine	October 9, 1943
- Guards Petty Officer First Class Dmitry Svishchov		165557	Black Sea	July 22, 1944
- Captain of the Medical Service Yevstafy Tsomaya		228908	East of Warsaw	September 27, 1944
- Guards Lieutenant Anton Mitkevich		234250	Minsk	August 29, 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
- Captain 3rd Grade Grigory Kozin		424569	Barents Sea	August 29, 1945
- 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
- Captain Viktor Voichenko		38692	East of Kursk	February 22, 1942
- 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
- Civilian Isaak Epshtein		91393	Nizhny Tagil, Urals	January 20, 1943
- Major Mikhail Veriga		97411	Northwest of Stalingrad	February 28, 1943
- 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 Lieutenant Grigory Kozin		215953	Barents Sea	March 5, 1944
- Captain Nester Petrovsky		228814	North of Kursk	August 14, 1943
- Junior Lieutenant Grigory Volkov		298737	West of Kharkov	September 4, 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
- Captain Lieutenant Grigory Kozin		997845	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
- Civilian Sergei Yanin		25346	Northern Russia	May 1, 1944

Order of the Badge of Honor
- Civilian Mikhail Zinovkin		19099	Nizhny Tagil, Urals	June 5, 1942
- Senior Lieutenant Grigory Zaletsky		26252	Poltava, Eastern Ukraine	November 24, 1942
- Civilian Andrei Ryzhevsky		34741	Kazan, Central Russia	January 27, 1944
- Civilian Aleksandr Antipenko		70557	Saratov, Central Russia	July 2, 1945
- Civilian Valentin Khalabuda		74423	Votkinsk, Central Russia	July 2, 1945

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	Near Krasnodar, Kuban	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
- Private Pyotr Ruzhitsky		1830544	Western Ukraine	June 20, 1944
- Lieutenant of the Medical Service Antonina Kornilova		2931819	Czechoslovakia	June 11, 1945