Red Star,0474007,Head Of 2nd Subsection SMERSH Counterintelligence Section,67th Army

[Bill Garvy]

Order Book

[Bill Garvy]

Record card

Order booklet nr. 420202

1. Last name: Tseplyayev
2. First name and patronymic: Georgy Danilovich
3. Military rank: Major
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1911
6. Place of birth: Tatarsk Raion, Novosibirsk Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1932
8. Education: Secondary, unfinished
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: Since 1931
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of a subsection of the Smersh Counterintelligence Section of the 67th Army
12. Current place of service and position: Chief of a section of the Smersh Counterintelligence Department of the West Siberian Military District
13. Home address of the awardee: 73 Maksim Gorky Street, apartment 20, City of Novosibirsk

14. List of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal/Serial number/Number of the document/Ground of award

Order of the Red Star 474007 976667 Order of the 67th Army nr. 0230/N of May 4th, 1944

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class 125754 V-767785 Order of the 67th Army nr. 0541/N of October 22nd, 1944

Medal for Combat Merit 1615402 037006 Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 3rd, 1944

Medal for the Defense of Leningrad Unnumbered A-25734 Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 22nd, 1942

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Chief of the 3rd Section of the Personnel Department of the West Siberian Military District
Major of the Administrative Service [signed] /Pavlov/
December 18th, 1945

[Bill Garvy]

Record card

Order booklet / certificate nr. 420202, already issued

1. Last name: Tseplyayev
2. First name and patronymic: Georgy Danilovich
3. Military rank: Major
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1911
6. Place of birth: Village of Novo-Mikhailivka, Tatarsk Raion, Novosibirsk Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1932
8. Education: Elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From 1931 through 1933
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the MVD Branch of the Ordynskoye Raion, Novosibirsk Oblast
12. Current place of service and position: Chief of the MVD Branch of the Ordynskoye Raion, Novosibirsk Oblast
13. Home address of the awardee: Village of Ordynskoye, Novosibirsk Oblast

14. List of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal/Serial number/Number of the document/Ground of award

Order of the Red Star 474007 420202 Order of March 11th, 1944

Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class 125754 420202 Order of October 22nd, 1944

Medal for Combat Merit 1615402 420202 Decree of November 3rd, 1944

Order of the Red Star 2750750 420202 Decree of May 21st, 1947

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Deputy chief of the MVD Branch of the Novosibirsk Oblast
[signed] /Starkov/
July 28th, 1947

[Bill Garvy]

Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

[Notes: Leningrad Front; December 13th, 1944; and other administrative data]

Order

Of the 67th Army, Leningrad Front

Operational Army – Nr. 0230/N – May 4th, 1944

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary execution of combat missions at the front in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:

[…]

The Order of the Red Star to:

[…]

31. Captain Georgy Danilovich Tseplyayev, Chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Smersh Counterintelligence Section of the 67th Army

[…]

Army commander
Lieutenant General [signed] /Romanovsky/

Member of the Military Council
Major General [signed] /Romanov/

Army chief of staff
Major General [signed] /Tsvetkov/

[Bill Garvy]

All fields to be filled out fully

Award sheet

Last name, first name, and patronymic: Tseplyayev, Georgy Danilovich
Military rank: Captain
Position and unit: Chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Smersh Counterintelligence Section of the 67th Army
Nominated for: Order of the Red Star
1. Year of birth: 1911
2. Nationality: Russian
3. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1931; with the NKVD since 1933
4. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party since 1932
5. Involvement in combat (where and when): Near Sinyavino during the lifting of the siege of Leningrad and near the villages of Mga and Krasny Gor
6. Wounds and contusions received: One light wound
7. Previous awards (for which accomplishments): Medal for the Defense of Leningrad
8. Drafted by which military commissariat: Personnel Subsection of the Special Section of the NKVD of the Leningrad Front
9. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his family): 4 Volodarsky Prospekt, Leningrad

Short, concrete description of his feat of arms or accomplishments:

Comrade Tseplyayev has been serving on the Leningrad Front since the beginning of the Patriotic War. He repeatedly fought in battle and was wounded to his head.

Serving as a section chief, comrade Tseplyayev showed himself an honorable and conscientious officer, possessing a thorough understanding of Chekist activities. Skillfully leading his section, comrade Tseplyayev personally unmasked one German spy.

Under his personal suppervision, in February and March 1944 his section's special agents unmasked three German intelligence agents, five traitors and traitors of the motherland, and one anti-Soviet element, and brought them before the military tribunal.

Moreover, at the end of March he apprehended a group of six armed deserters.

Systematically visiting the facilities operated by by his agents, he provided the latter with practical assistance in organizing their operational duties at these facilities.

Skillfully directing his section's agents to unmask counterrevolutionary elements in the army's rear areas, comrade Tseplyayev achieved excellent results in clearing the army's rear of unreliable elements among military personnel.

In March and April of this year, the agents of comrade Tseplyayev's section revealed the incompetent leadership, professional chaos, and the decommissioning of transport vehicles by senior personnel of the 60th Automobile Battalion and Sorting-Evacuation Hospital nr. 262, whose commanders were relieved of their duties by 67th Army command.

Comrade Tseplyayev deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Deputy commander for the rear of the 67th Army
Major General [signed] /Pukanov/
April 28th, 1944

[Bill Garvy]

Captain Georgy Danilovich Tseplyayev's Order of the Red Star, #474007

[Bill Garvy]

Captain Georgy Danilovich Tseplyayev's Order of the Red Star, #2750750

My thanks to Auke for his invaluable assistance. . .