Red Star,0395756,Scout,925th Rifle Regiment,249th Estonian Rifle Division

[Bill Garvy]

Award card

Order booklet 280046
1. Last name: Ryani
2. Name and Patrionymic: Akhto Eduardovich
3. Rank: Corporal
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1913
6. Birthplace: Tallin, Estonian SSR
7. Party Membership: member since 1945
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Estonian
10. Service in the Red Army: since 1941
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 925th Rifle Regiment, 249th Estonian Rifle Division – Rifleman
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Agricultural Bank, Tallinn, Estonian SSR – Senior Controller
13. Home of Record: Tallinn, Sakala St. #30, Apt. 2
14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder

Red Star 395.756 249th Estonian Rifle Division dated 13.1.44

Verified 18th October, 1946 by Central Region Military Commissar (?)

[Bill Garvy]

Award Citation

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Ryani, Akhto Eduardovich
2. Rank: Private
3. Duty position: Scout – Foot Reconnaissance Platoon, 925th Rifle Regiment, 249th Estonian Rifle Division, 8th Estonian Rifle Corps
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star

4. Born: 1913
5. Nationality: Estonian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: On Kalinin Front since 10.11.43 and 2nd Baltic Front since 13.10.43
8. Wounds or shell-shock: one serious wound. [trans: additional note: “Seriously wounded 12.1.43 near Velikie Luki.’]
9. Time in Red Army: since 9th March, 1942
10. Inducted by: Arkhangelsk Municipal Military Commissariat, Arkhangelsk
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Estonian SSR, Tallin, Veike-Amerika St. Bldg. #30-8. Family’s address is the same. [trans: additional handwritten note “Born in Tallin.”]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Private A.E. Ryani repelled an enemy attack of 15-20 submachinegunners, killing the majority of them, during fighting for the city of Velikie Luki.
Although wounded in the eye on 12th January, 1943, he held off the enemy trying to capture a building and then only went to the medical site after the attack had been repelled.
Comrade A.E. Ryani is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Regimental Commander, Colonel Virit on 23rd December, 1943

Endorsed 249th Estonian Rifle Division Commander, General Major Lombak on 6th January, 1944.

[Bill Garvy]

Private Akhto Eduardovich Ryani's Red Star, Scout, Foot Reconnaissance Platoon, 925th Rifle Regiment.