For Bravery,1167708,Assistant Observer,Antitank Battalion,117th Guards Rifle Division

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Record card

Certificate nr. V-154514

1. Last name: Khvadashani
2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Makarovich
3. Military rank: Senior Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1923
6. Place of birth: Village of Nizhny Tsagiri, Tsagiri Raion, Georgian SSR
7. Party membership (since which year): Candidate-member of the Communist Party since 1944
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Georgian
10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: August 1942
11. Place of service (name of unit) and duty position at the time of the awarding: 119th Independent Anti-Tank Battalion, 117th Guards Rifle Division
12. Current place of service and duty position: Head of a section of the vehicle fleet of the Kirovabad Military Aviation School for Pilots
13. Home address of the awardee: Dormitory in the city of Kirovabad
14: Record of all awards presented:


Bravery Medal 1167708 Temporary certificate nr. B-378461 Order of the 117th Guards Rifle Division nr. 010/N of February 23, 1944

Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus - Permanent certificate nr. N-015807 Decree of May 1, 1944

Medal for the Victory over Germany - Permanent certificate nr. 0148751 Decree of May 9, 1945




Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee:

Chief of the Kirovabad Military Aviation School for Pilots
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] / Ivanov /
February 6, 1947

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Award sheet

1. Last name, first name, and patronymic: Khvadashani, Nikolai Makarovich
2. Military rank: Guards Sergeant
3. Duty position, unit: assistant observer for a gun in the 119th Independent Guards Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion, 117th Guards Berdichev Rifle Division
Recommended for: Medal for Bravery
4. Year of birth: 1923
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: Komsomol member since 1942
7. Participation in the Civil War, the following combat actions for the defense of the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where, when): Participates in the Patriotic War since February 1943
8. Wounds and contusions suffered during the Patriotic War: Contused at the front line on April 17, 1943
10. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1942
11. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military commissariat of the Tsagiri Raion, Georgian SSR
12. Which earlier awards (for which merits): Doesn’t have awards
13. Permanent home address of the recommendee and the address of his family: Village of Nizhny Tsagir, Tsagiri Raion, Georgian SSR

Short, concrete description of personal combat feat or merits:

During the period of offensive combat between December 24, 1943 and January 10, 1944 Guards Sergeant N.M. Khvadashani displayed courage and bravery.

Directly participating in combat operations as part of a gun crew, he destroyed enemy combat materiel and troops. For example, near the village of Rakovichi in the Zhitomir Oblast on December 24, 1944 [sic], one enemy 75 mm gun and three firing positions were destroyed and 15 soldiers killed by the gun crew.

He deserves the Medal for Bravery.

Commander of the 119th Independent Guards Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion
Guards Major [signed] / Koss /
February 19, 1944




By Order of the 117th Guards Berdichev Rifle Division nr. 010/N of February 23, 1944 awarded the Medal for Bravery.

Chief of the 4th section of the divisional staff
Guards Captain of Administrative Service [signed] / Unzhakov /
February 25, 1944

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Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

Order

Of the 117th Guards Berdichev Rifle Division, 18th Army

Nr. 010/N

February 23, 1944 – Active Army– 1st Ukrainian Front

On awardings

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for exemplary accomplishment of the command’s combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the hereby displayed courage and bravery, I award:

The Medal for Bravery to:

[…]

27. Guards Sergeant Nikolai Makarovich Khvadashani, assistant observer for a gun in the 119th Independent Guards Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion

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Commander of the 117th Guards Berdichev Rifle Division
Guards Colonel [signed] / Volkovich /

Chief of staff of the division
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] / Tkachev /

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Хвадашани, Николай Макарович ' Medal for Bravery

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Rakovichi = раковичи = Rakovychi, Jytomyr, Ukraine 12260

50° 26' 29.96 N 29° 27’ 53.86 E