For Combat Merits,0460043,Clerk,SMERSH,2nd Guards Artillery Division,Stalingrad

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #460043.

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1. Family, Tsapko (Lutovinova)
2. Name And Patronym, Nina Nikiforvna
3. Military Rank, Junior Lieutenant Administrative Service
4. Sex, Female
5. Year Of Birth, 1923
6. Place Of Birth, Orlov Oblast, Krasnoe Region, Krasnoe
7. Party Membership, Member VLKSM since 1939
8. Education, 9th Class Secondary School
9. Nationality, Russian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From December 1941.
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 2nd Guards Artillery Division Of Breakthrough Reserve Of The Supreme Command, Clerk-Typist, Section of Counter-intelligence "SMERSH".
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, 5th Shock Tank Brigade - Clerk-Typist, Section of Counter-intelligence "SMERSH".
13. Current address of awarded, Sverdlovsk, Military City 11, Corps 1 Apartment 6.

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1. Family, Name, Patronym. Lutovinova, Nina Nikiforvna
2. Rank. Guards Lieutenant
3. Position and unit. Clerk-Typist, Department of counter-intelligence "SMERSH" Section
Presented For award of the Medal "For Combat Merits"
4. Year of birth. 1923
5. Nationality. Russian
6. Party Membership. Member VLKSM since 1939
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ Participant of the Patriotic War since November 1941 Southern Front.
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. Not had.
9. From which time in Red Army. From December 1941.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Eletsk Regional Military Commissariat, Orlov Oblast.
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Award not had

Comrade Lutovinova at the front of the Patriotic War since November 1941 and all the time located directly in the ranks of the active army.

In July 1942 being encircled by enemy troops, coming out from the battle together with others, preserving and keeping documents of the Department of counter-intelligence "SMERSH".

During the period of rout from German occupiers near Stalingrad and during the time of the division carrying out the July operations at Stalingrad in a complicated situation together with the operational staff carried out tasks of registration of operational documents on the withdrawal of counter-revolutionary-traitor elements that have served in units of our division.

A 19 year old female SMERSH officer in Stalingrad, escaping from encirclement - seems like a Hollywood tale.

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Here is a photograph of the recipient.