For Bravery,0200345,Signaller,64th Guards Artillery Regiment,Krestjansk Forest

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Record card

Order booklet nr. B-491917

1. Last name: Kotochigov
2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Aleksandrovich
3. Military rank: Private
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1907
6. Place of birth: Kostroma Raion, Kostroma Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Not a member
8. Education: Elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From August 24, 1941 to June 12, 1944
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position at the time of the award: Signaller in the 64th Guards Artillery Regiment
12. Current place of service and position: Farmer at the Aktivist Kolkhoz, Pustynsky Rural Municipality, Kostroma Raion
13. Home address of the awardee: Village of Bugry, Pustynsky Rural Municipality, Kostroma Raion, Kostroma Oblast

14. Record of all awards received:

Names of the orders and medals Their numbers Numbers of the documents Ground of award
Order of Glory, 3rd Class 559347 Order of the 31st Guards Rifle Division nr. 025/N of March 26, 1944


Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Officer of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Kostroma Oblast
Senior Lieutenant [signed]
October 29, 1947

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Order

Order nr. 06/N

Of the 64th Guards Artillery Regiment, 31st Guards Rifle Division, Western Front

March 11, 1943

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:

The Medal for Courage to:

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4. Guards Private Ivan Aleksandrovich Kotochigov, telephone operator in the 2nd Battery, for the fact that he on March 2, under systematic enemy fire, on three occasions repaired a large number of breaks in the telephone line near the village of Krestyanskaya Gora, which secured the battery’s continuous communications when the enemy tanks attacked.

Born in 1907, member of the Communist Party, Russian, drafted into the Red Army on August 28, 1941 by the Military Commissariat of the Lyubim Raion, Yaroslavl Oblast. Home address: Village of Bugry, Lyubim Raion, Yaroslavl Oblast. Wife: Anna Ivanovna Kotochigova.

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Regimental commander
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Vasilyev/

Chief of staff
Guards Captain [signed] /Novikov/

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The Medal itself and the monument in former Krestyanskaya Gora.

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Here is the original citation.