Red Banner,265096,SU57 Battery Commander,70th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade

[Tommy]

My first Red Banner :-)

Award Card

Order Booklet B 131589

1. Last name: Losev
2. Name and patrionymic: Anatolii Ivanovich
3. Rank: Guards Captain
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1915
6. Birthplace: Omsk-Leninsk
7. Party membership: since 1940
8. Education: mid-level
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 9.1941-7.1946
11. Place of service at awarding: Deputy Battalion Commander – 22 Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade, 4 Guards Tank Army, 1 Ukrainian Front
12. Place of work at present: Lvov, Locomotive Depot – Lvov West – Deputy Machinist
13. Home address: Lvov, Krylov St. 12, Apt. 4
14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization
Alexander Nevsky 7013 4 Tank Army dated 26.7.44 Red Banner 265.096 4 Tank Army dated 3.5.45

Verified by Lvov Krasnoarmeiskii Regional Military Commissariat official on 5 June 1947

[Tommy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Losev, Anatolii Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Captain
3. Duty position: SU-57 Battery Commander – 3 Battalion, 70 Guards Nevelskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade Recommendation for the Order of the Red Banner
4. Born: 1915
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: since 1940 #3594932
7. Previous combat: 2.02.42-5.03.1943 Kalinin Front; 5.03.1943-7.07.1943 1 Baltic Front; since 14.07.44 1 Ukrainian Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: lightly wounded 21.4.1945
9. In Red Army: since 25.09.1941
10. Inducted by: Lenin Regional Military Commissariat, Omsk
11. Previous awards: Order of Alexander Nevsky 26.7.1944
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Comrade Losev has repeatedly entered into battle and in doing so has always supported the success of the fight. While in a TPZ [trans: unknown abbreviation, but some kind of factory] near the village of Prensdorf* he met a large enemy column, scattered it, and destroyed as many as 63 vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, a 202mm self-propelled gun, and 70 German soldiers and officers.

On another occasion while conducting a reconnaissance along the an approach to the village of Jamo*, a group of Germans were trying to surround and destroy Losev’s battery, but in turn was scattered and left as many as 25 Hitlerites on the battlefield. The operation to capture the village of Kropstedt* was conducted successfully and while repelling an enemy counterattack on the village of Ferkh* [trans: this sentence is a fragment as written] In this engagement as many as 45 German were destroyed and 15 captured.

Comrade Losev is deserving of the Order of the Red Banner.

Signed Commander, 3 Self-Propelled Artillery Battalion, Guards Captain Panchenko on 5 May 1945

Endorsed Commander, 22 Nevelskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade, Guards Lieutenant Colonel Kornoshkin on 10 May 1945

*Geographic place name is an approximation based off of transliterated Russian from German translated into English

[Tommy]

Here it is!

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The Nevsky is in the database.

My deepest thanks to the previous owner.

Hope you like it!

Tom

[Bill Garvy]

Congratulations, Tom, beautiful Red Banner and interesting research. Might I suggest obtaining his Service Record?

[andrew6767]

Good to see you getting a few in the collection now Tommy :)

[matteti]

Congratulations Tom! :thumbsup
Nice combat ORB and nice citation!
As Bill suggested, since he was officer, you might be able to get his personal file and learn a lot more about Losev.

[Tommy]

Thankyou everyone for your kind words :). I will enquire about the Service Record as soon as i have a bit of money back again haha.

Cheers,

Tom

[PaulR]

Most amazing award and citation. I would love to see what he did to get the Nevsky.

[Tommy]

Thanks Paul!

I couldn't find the write up for the Nevsky on Podvig unfortunately. Perhaps that's just me being useless!

Tom

[CtahhR]

I think you're looking at Kropstädt in Wittenberg, Saxony. Finding that on the map and then looking around you could find all the other places named (or not).