For Bravery,0220087,Platoon Commander,89th Separate Machinegun-Artillery Battalion

[CtahhR]

Here is the Medal "For Bravery" #220087.

[CtahhR]

1. Family, Kigen'ko
2. Name And Patronym, Grigorij Ivanovich
3. Military Rank, Senior Lieutenant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1912
6. Place Of Birth, Stalino Oblast, Dzerzhinskij Region, Nelepovka
7. Party Membership, Member VKP/b/ from 1943
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From June 1941 to September 1945.
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 395th Separate Machinegun-Artillery Regiment, 1st Baltic Front - Commander Of A Separate Company
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Stalino Oblast, Stalino Currently not working
13. Current address of awarded, Stalino, Mar'ensk 17 Apartment 1

For Bravery 220087 29th April 1943
Red Star 315033 4th August 1943
Patriotic War 2nd Class 91747 7th April 1944
For Victory Over Germany

[CtahhR]

1. Family, Name, Patronym. Kigen'ko, Grigorij Ivanovich
2. Rank. Lieutenant
3. Position and unit. Commander Of The Machinegun Platoon, 89th Separate Machinegun-Artillery Battalion
Presented For The Medal "For Bravery".
4. Year of birth. 1912
5. Nationality. Ukrainian
6. Party Membership. Non-Partisan
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ Participant Of the Patriotic War from June 1941.
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. Wounded 15th March 1942 - 35th Rifle Regiment, 65th Rifle Division, 52th Army, Volhov Front
9. From which time in Red Army. 1934-1937 and from June 1941.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Konstantinov Regional Military Commissariat, Donbass.
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Not awarded.

Lieutenant Kigen'ko, G. I. participant in the Patriotic War from the first days. In the staff of the 25th Rifle Corps, 228th Rifle Division and 65th Rifle Division, a quality junior and then middle commander, participant of numerous battles and scout operations, has made 16 trips to the enemy rear, twice getting out of enemy encirclement with fighters, returning with himself and 27 fighters from other units and destroying in melee combat up to 30 Hitlerites. In battle wounded.

As part of the 89th Separate Machinegun-Artillery Battalion 11th-12th April 1943 has made a personal scout of the enemy front area and cemetery of the village of Matveevo. On his produced data, addressed to the command, his subunits laid for a few nights in trenches in the enemy front area and cemetery and 22nd April 1943 entrenched in dominating positions in the direct vicinity of the enemy front area. As a result the company, followed its exclusive predecessors thanks to which the defence turned, acquiring dominant positions, providing a circular defence important to units in the region of 4th company.

For valuable initiative and personal boldness is worthy of the governmental award Medal "For Bravery".

Commander 89th Separate Machinegun-Artillery Battalion Major Ejdel'man
26th April 1943.

[CtahhR]

Here is a photograph of the recipient.