For Bravery,0124742,Sniper,232nd Rifle Regiment,Northwestern Front

[Norm Braddock]

Award Card
Certificate A 502829
1. Last name: Vasilev
2. Name and patrionymic: Sergei Dmitrievich
3. Rank: Senior Sergeant - Reserves
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1919
6. Birthplace: Novgorod Oblast, Botsetskii Region, village of Zhestyakaya Hill
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 6.1941-2.1943
11. Place of service at awarding: 232 Rifle Regiment, 182 Rifle Division, North Western Front – Squad Leader
12. Place of work at present: Invalid 2d Category receiving pension
13. Home address: Leningrad, Kolpinskaya St. Bldg. 27, Apt. 3
14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization
Bravery Medal 124.742 232 Rifle Regiment 2.12.42
Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.1945
Verified by Primorskii Regional Military Commissariat Major Bykov on 20 January 1947



ORDER #1 OF THE (missing) RIFLE REGIMENT, 182 RIFLE DIVISION, NORTH WESTERN FRONT DATED (missing) DECEMBER 1942
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR I award:
THE BRAVERY MEDAL to
2. Sniper-Senior Sergeant Sergei Dmitrievich Vasilev who in July 1942 killed 33 German occupiers, including two enemy sniper(?)-submachinegunners.
B. 1920, Russian, non-party member, inducted into RKKA by Onega RMC, Arkhangel Oblast. Home of record: Leningrad, 25 October Prospekt, Bldg 180, Apt 4
Signed Regimental Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Mozhonov(sp?)