For Bravery,2988211,Rifleman,147th Rifle Regiment,Stalingrad,Wounds 1946

[Tommy]

1. Award card

Certificate 814758

Last name: Engibarov
Name and Patrionymic: Vasiliii Mikhailovich
Rank: Private
Sex: Male
Birthyear: 1919
Birthplace: village of Vardisubani, Dmanisii Region
Party Membership: n/a
Education: 5 grade
Nationality: Armenian
Service in the Red Army: 9.1939-6.1943
Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 147 Rifle Regiment, 2 Rifle Division – Rifleman
Place of service and duty position at the current time: village of Vardisubani – Collective Farm Farmer
Home of Record: Georgian SSR, Dmanisii Region, village of Vubani
14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder
Bravery Medal 2.988.211 Supreme Soviet Edict dated 6.(?).1947

Verified 6 March 1948 by Dmanissii Regional Military Commissariat Major (?)

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[Tommy]

Award Sheet

Last name, name, and patrionymic: Engibarov, Vasilii Mikhailovich
Rank: Private
Duty position: Rifleman – 147 Rifle Regiment, 2 Rifle Division Recommendation for the Bravery Medal
Born: 1919
Nationality: Armenian
Party membership: Comsomol
Previous combat: Patriotic War Stalingrad Front
Wounds or shell-shock: left and right hands have shrapnel wounds
Time in Red Army: 1941 to 8 January 1943
Inducted by: Bashkigentskii Regional Military Commissariat, Georgian SSR
Previous awards: n/a
Home of record: Georgian SSR, Bashninenskii Region, village of Vardisubani.

Works as a security guard in the “Ordzhonikidze” Collective Farm

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In 1943 while in the 147 Rifle Regiment, 2 Rifle Division, Corporal Vasilii Mikhailovich Engibarov actively participated in the Patriotic War on the Stalingrad Front, where on 8 January 1943 during an attack in the city of Stalingrad, he received shrapnel wounds in the left and right hands with damage to the 2, 3, and 4 fingers of both hands.

According to testimony, his wounds were verified by medical evaluation 3e #1141 issued by Evacuation Hospital #3631.

While serving on the labor front as a security guard in a collective farm, Comrade Engibarov has been active in Soviet and Party organizations and has received positive work evaluations.

He is deserving of the Bravery Medal.

Signed Bashninenskii Regional Commissariat Official Captain Kh(?) on (?) July 1944


Endorsed Military Commissar, Georgian SSR, Lieutenant Colone Dzha(?) on 7 September 1945

Endorsed Acting Commander, Tbilisi Military Region, General-Lieutenant Mitov and Deputy Member of the Military Committee General-Major Egorov, and verified by Chief of Personnel, Administrative Services Major Sharopov on 20 March 1946

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[Tommy]

Wounds awards can be exciting too!

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Tom

[SergioV]

Nice Medal and research Tommy
Congratulations :thumbsup

[Rogi]

Fantastic medal :) so glad to see her go to a good home :)

[CtahhR]

2,3,4 fingers are not the ones you want to be damaged but both hands is even greater disadvantage. It is nice to see that such a wound was quickly recognised as deserving.

As Lee Nelson would say "Qwalitiii".