Red Star,0343272,Senior Telephone Operator,130th Guards Rifle Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet A 554597

1. Last name: Perelygin
2. Name and patrionymic: Aleksandr Ilich
3. Rank: Corporal
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1917
6. Birthplace: Kuibyshev Oblast, Cherkassii Region, village of Morevka
7. Party membership: n/a
8. Education: fourth grade
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 10.1938-11.1940 and 4.1942-5.1946
11. Place of service at awarding: Senior Telephone Operator – 130th Guards Rifle Regiment, 58th Guards Rifle Division, 5th Guards Army
12. Place of work at present: “Pravda #2” Collective Farm – Field Brigade Farmer
13. Home address: village of Marevka, K. Cherkassii Region, Kuibyshev Oblast
14. Awards:

Designation/Serial Number/Awarding Organization

Combat Service Medal 101.958 63rd Army dated 12.9.42
Red Star 343.272 58th Guards Rifle Division dated 30.9.1943
Glory III 30.442 58th Guards Rifle Division dated 21.4.44
Glory II 14.449 5th Guards Army dated 2.4.45
Patriotic War II Class 267.967 34th Guards Rifle Corps dated 9.9.45

Verified by (?) Regional Military Commissariat Senior Lieutenant Goncharov on 22nd March, 1947

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Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Perelygin, Aleksandr Ilich
2. Rank: Guards Corporal
3. Duty position: Senior Telephone Operator – HQ Battery, 130th Guards Artillery Regiment, 58th Guards Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1917
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: Stalingrad and SW Fronts since 10.7.42. On Steppe Front since 13.8.43. 27.07.41 on the Bryansk, Central, and 1 Belorussian Fronts
8. Wounds or shell-shock: wounded 9.08.43 and 25.03.44
9. In Red Army: since 1939
10. Inducted by: Molotov Regional Military Commissariat, Kuibyshev Oblast
11. Previous awards: Combat Service Medal
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

On 1st September, 1943 Perelygin received the order to provide communications to the 3/130 Guards Artillery Regiment Observation Post (OP) and despite the fact that the majority of occasions he was forced to low crawl under enemy machinegun, rifle, and mortar fire, communications were delivered on time and subsequently Perelygin quickly ran along communications lines and despite artillery fire, quickly restored broken lines. After an air raid Perelygyn repaired as many as 30 broken lines under enemy fire, thus permitting the Command to reinforce the battalion.

Guards Private Perelygin is dedicated to the Lenin-Stalin Party.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.

Signed Commander, 130th Guards Artillery Regiment, Guards Captain Dem(?)
Endorsed Artillery Commander, 58th Guards Rifle Division, Guards Colonel Efimov on 14th September, 1943

Endorsed Commander, 58th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division, Guards Colonel Rusakov on 30.9.1943

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Unit Award Order

SECRET

[trans: “2nd Ukrainian Front 26.5.44” and administrative data written in pencil]

58th Guards Red Banner Rifle Division Order 42/N dated 30th October, 1943

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s missions in the struggle against the German invaders and for having displayed valor and bravery:

Order of the Red Star to:

13. Guards Corporal Aleksandr Ilich Perelygin – Battery Senior Telephone Operator, 130th Guards Artillery Regiment, 58th Guards Krasnograd Rifle Division

Signed 58th Guards Krasnograd Rifle Division Commander Guards Colonel Rusakov and Chief of Staff Guards Lieutenant Colonel Rudnik

3 Copies
1-2 Peoples Commissariat of Defense
3 Personnel File
Compiled by Erofeev

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Guards Corporal Aleksandr Ilich Perelygin's Order of the Red Star, #343272.

My thanks to Auke & desantnik for their invaluable assistance.