Ministry Of Defence Personal Files.

[NTAT]

Eric,

These files can present very interesting reading if you have someone who can translate them. I have two. One to a Hero of Soviet Union and one to an Artillery Commander who was decorated with a U.S. LOM.

If you're a document or paper geek like me...these are fantastic! In my opinion worth the $85-$100 if you can afford it.

Gerry C.

NTAT

[Komandir RKKA]

I have original personal file of HSU and some docs was written on the back side of German printed papers.

[deValcourt]

I have one such personnel file that I got a while back and that Paul was kind enough to help me sort out. In theory, I don't like the idea of these being for sale. In practice, I own one and it's not like I can return it or that anyone misses it.:rolleyes:

On a side note, there is a ePay seller from Estonia hawking criminal investigation files (mostly from the late 1980s) that he has ranging from $40 to $75 each depending on the crime, I guess (one of them inlcudes an investigation of a suicide - NOT the one pictured below). His ads say KGB, but I doubt any of these cases were handled by anyone other than the local MVD and Public Prosecutor's Office (DA).

Phillip

[Lapa]

Phillip,

I agree with you, the KGB had absolutely nothing to do with anything here. Simply Public Prosecutor's Office, as you mentioned.

Marc

PS: of course, KGB sounds more sexy and marketable...

[deValcourt]

I'm just sort of bothered by any type of release/leak/theft of very personal material (like the suicide case I mentioned - photos and all:mad:). I'm sorry there are a number of Estonian (and other former Soviet Republic) citizens who feel it is OK to do as they please - for profit or revenge or whatever motive - with anything having to do with the Soviet Union just because they can. The country as it was may not exist anymore, but there is no good reason IMHO to abuse the memory of the people who lived there.

Military personnel files are relatively impersonal, but criminal investigation files get very personal and ... OK, I'm calmer now.:rolleyes:

Phillip

[EricFG]

Maybe I should make a small investment if only to keep this soldier's file in the hands of someone who appreciates it?

I've been a regular on ebay for quite few years, and at one time searched all the Soviet military paper items available on a daily basis looking for Billets and Knizhkas and battle certificates, mainly. Never seen one of these before. Now, however, I see a few of them.
I wonder if this is the trickle before the dam breaks and they'll be all over the place shortly, or this just the few that were snuck out of the office just after it closed and before the new authorities put the kibosh on employee theft.
I suspect the later but if so why the roughly ten years in between regime change and surfacing for sale?

[Lapa]

Eric,

In fact, these were more widely available toward the end of the 1990's and early 2000's. Somehow, it seems that most of them are now in collections (I own 4), and once in a while, e few surface again, but it is nothing to compare with what it was then.

Marc

[EricFG]

OK, thanks (again), Marc. I guess most probably I never recognized what they were when they were right in front of me.

[Tommy]

The Personal file of Dmitry Filippovich Lozin

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Lozin's Citation for Action in the GPW. Both on the front line and as a Border Guard.

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Award sheet

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Lozin, Dmirij Filippovich
2. Rank: Sergeant Major
3. Position and unit: Sergeant Major of the 2nd line Outpost of the 333rd Border Regiment of the NKVD
Nominated for: Medal “For Bravery”
4. Year of birth: 1919
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): In the Patriotic War from 13.3.42 to 30.6.44. Orlov Oblast
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: Wounded 3 times since 1942
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1940
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Ordzhonikidze Gradsky Gore. Military offices, Bryansk Oblast
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): No awards
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

Sergeant Lozin fought in the Patriotic War against the German fascist invaders from 4.13.42. On April 13, 1942 as part of the 528th Rifle Regiment, he participated in the battles at Orel. His squad destroyed more than 50 enemy soldiers and officers, while he personally killed 5 people in the melee.

During reconnaissance he captured two enemy soldiers.

On 15.4.42 he was badly wounded. He received a second wound at the front on June 30th 1942 and the third was on June 29th 1944, while in combat with the 518th Rifle Regiment.

Since September 1944, Sergeant Major Lozin has been working as foreman of the 2nd border outpost. He refers to his official duties conscientiously. He fights for the conservation of military equipment at the Border Outpost. The recording and reporting of sales is done timely and with quality. He fights for the strengthening of the Soviet-military discipline in the offices.

For exemplary performance of assigned tasks at the front against the German invaders, he is worthy of the governmental award the Medal “For Bravery”

Commander of the 333rd-border regiment of the NKVD
Lieutenant colonel / [signed] / Buchevsky, 28th May 1945




By order of the 5th Shock Army
No 198/N on 5th June 1945
Deserving of the Order of the Red Star
Chief of the 2nd Office
????

[Tommy]

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1. Date of Birth: 20th December 1919
2. Place of Birth: Titov, Bryansk Raion, Bryansk Oblast
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Which language is considered native: Russin
5. Knowledge of any foreign langue and to what extent: No knowledge
6. Social status: Labourer
7. Main civil speciality: Turner
8. Education
a. General: 8 classes of Alshaninskoy NSSH? in 1934
b. Specialist: In 1934-1935, graduated from the trade schools at the factory "Red Profintern"
c. Political: None
d. Military: In 1952 he graduated from the Kiev fire-technical school
9. Academic degree and academic title, awarded when and by whom: None
10. Any published works: None
11. Komsomol membership
a. If in the Komsomol, since when and inducted by who: Not a member
b. Komsomol member ship booklet number and issued by which organization: None
12. Party membership
a. If a Communist party candidate, since when and inducted by who: Not a member
b. Candidate ID number and issued by who: None
c. If a Communist party member, since when and inducted by who: Member of the CPSU since 1945 when appointed by the political department of the NKVD to protect the rear of the Soviet Forces in Germany
d. Party membership ID number and issued by who: Booklet No 05899158 issued by the Loevsky RK KPB, Gomel oblast
e. If previously in the CPSU, for how long, where and why eliminated: Not previously in the CPSU
f. If removed from the CPSU and subsequently restored, when and for what reason: Not dropped out of the CPSU
g. Was a member of any of the fraternal public Communist parties, where and at what time: Not a member
13. Parents involvements
a. Before 1917 (What did they do and where): Prior to 1917, householders in Titov, in the Bryansk region.
b. From 1917 to the present: After 1917, the same. Lozin’s father Fillip Terent’evich born in 1880, lives in Titov in the Bryansk Region. His mother Lozina died in 1940.
14. Family details: Married to Wife Lozina, Claudia Maksimovna, born in 1925, born in the village of Troitskoe, Sunzha district, Grozny Regio. Married Number 50-47?
Son, Nikolai born in 1948
15. Address of the Family if they reside separately:
16. Governmental and other awards
a. Orders and Medals of the USSR and Union Republics or other countries, awarded when and what:
Name of Order or Medal Awarded by Who Date of the award decree

Order of the Red Star Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 15.10.45
Medal for Victory over Germany Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 09.5.45
Medal for the Liberation of Warsaw Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 09.04.45
Medal for the Capture of Berlin Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 09.06.45
Medal for 30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 22.02.48
Medal for Combat Services Order of the 33rd Rifle Regiment 25.06.54

b. Other awards and prizes of gratitude, declared in decrees of the NKO, MVS or VM USSR during the period of the Great Patriotic War - The orders of the supreme commander in chief also indicates the assignment Stalin Prize title winners in this section:
None
17. Participation at the front and in partisan detachments: A) during the Civil War B)The war with the white Finns C) In the Patriotic War From what time Until what time

109th Separate rifle brigade, 1st Belorussian Front – Deputy squad leader 12.1942 01.1943
518th Rifle Regiment, 1st Belorussian Front - Scout 04.1944 04.1944

18. Wounds and Contusions received, when in what battles, any affect to character:
Lightly wounded in the left leg at Kursk in 1943
Slightly wounded in the head at Kursk in 1943
Severely wounded in the left hand under Bobruisk in 1944

19. Independent work before military service and service in the old army
From what time Until what time Name of the company, institution or collective farm and what areas worked. District name, front and army in the service of the old military Occupation and position

09.1934 06.1935 School of F30 factory "Red Profintern" near Bezhitsa, Bryansk region Apprentice
06.1935 10.1940 Factory "Red Profintern" Turner
10.1940 01.1947 Service in the Soviet Army
05.1947 07.1955 Service in the organ of the MVD
07.1955 02.1956 Loev RK Communist Party of Belarus, Gomel Oblast Instructor in the zone of Loev ???
02.1956 04.1957 Kolkhoz Bulgarnina Karkov, Loev district ???
04.1957 05.1957 Sovkhoz “Dneprovetsk”, Loev district, Gomel Oblast ???
05.1957 Temporarily unemployed

20. In what elected party of Soviet body: Not elected
21. Service as a Red Guard, where, when and in what capacity: Not a member
22. When and where he joined the military, on an appeal, either voluntarily or by the party or trade union mobilization. If called upon multiple times, then write sequentially, what time from and to and when called upon last: In 1940, by conscription the Bemitsko military commissariat

23. Military service in the Armed Forces of the USSR
From what time Until What time Position Service in which army, military force, or forward area, fleet or flotilla Whose order, number and date of the order
10.1940 08.1942 Rifleman 315th Independent Rifle Regiment. Battalion DVO
08.1942 01.1943 Deputy Squad Leader 109th Independent Rifle Brigade
01.1943 04.1944 ??? Sergeant 181st Reserve Rifle Regiment
04.1944 07.1944 Scout 518th Rifle Regiment, 169th Rifle Division
07.1944 08.1944 Independent Platoon Commander 31st Independent Rifle Regiment
08.1944 11.1945 Sergeant of a Border Outpost 333rd Border guard regiment of the NKVD
11.1945 01.1947 ??? Sergeant 333rd Rifle Regiment of the MVD
01.1947 Demobilized by order of the Council of Ministers
Service in the MVD
05.1947 02.1950 Fireman 6th paramilitary fire department of the MVD, Grozny
02.1950 12.1951 Squad Leader 3rd Paramilitary fire department of the MVD, Bezhitsa, Bryansk Oblast
12.1951 10.1952 Student Kiev Fire-technical School, Kiev
10.1952 07.1955 Regional Fire Inspector Loev ROM MVD in Gomel, separate fire protection UMVD Order No 77 of the MVD
Belorussian SSR
7/10/55 year dismissed from the MVD into the Ministry of Defence reserves due to the transfer for party work
Loevsky District Military Commissariat
Lieutenant Colonel / signed / Druzhinin
20.07.1955
05.04.1947 11.07.1955 Served in the MVD for ?????? Order of the UMVD, Grozny Oblast, No 54 of 9.4.47
13.01.1958 16.12.1969 ????????

24. More Information
a. Party Membership: partisanship
1. Has any party penalties and for what, when and how they are imposed by party leaders.
2. Whether there was hesitation in holding the line of the CPSU, was whether has been in opposition or anti-party groups:
None
b. The passage of service: Time spent in occupied territory etc: As part of the 333rd Border Regiment from 1944 to 1947, he was in Poland and Germany
c. Parents and close relatives: No family members were in territory temporarily occupied by the Germans