Red Star,1783576,Technician Of Combustible-Lubrication Material,298th Rifle Division

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Red Star #1783576.

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1. Family, Zak
2. Name And Patronym, Moisej Beniaminovich
3. Military Rank, Senior Technical Lieutenant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1912
6. Place Of Birth, Baku
7. Party Membership, Non-Partisan
8, Education, None
9, Nationality, Jew
10, From Which Year In Red Army, 30-01-1942 - 07-08-1946
11, Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 298th Rifle Division, 490th Separate Self-Propelled Artillery Section, Technician Of Combustible-Lubrication Material
12, Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Baku, Azeri Energy, Senior Engineer
13. Current Address Of Awarded, Baku, Krupskaja 56 #1

Red Star 1783576
For Victory Over Germany
For Victory Over Japan

If you want someone to play with your fluids get someone from Baku!

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Family, name and patronym, Zak, Moisej Beniaminovich
Rank, Senior Technical Lieutenant
Position, Unit, Technician Of Combustible-Lubrication Material, 490th Separate Self-Propelled Artillery Section, 298th Rifle Division, 36th Army, Trans-Bajkal Front.
Presented for Order "Red Star"
1. Year Of Birth, 1912
2. Nationality, Jew
3. From which time in the Red Army, 1935.
4. Party membership, Non-Partisan
5. Participation in War (Where, When) Patriotic War.
6. Has had wounds or contusions, Light wound - 1
7. Has been awarded (for which distinction), Not had
8. To which Regional Military Commissariat called, Dzherzhinskij Regional Military Commissariat, Baku.

Comrade Zak all throughout the combat activity from the border along the Hingan ridge, supplied the combat and tractor sections and the general advanced squads of the hot division, driving directly into battle, thus ensuring the success in battle of the section and the general advanced squads of the division.

Comrade Zak is worthy of the Governmental award Order "Red Star".

Commander 490 Major ?
20th August 1945

On captured paper too.

By the time he was awarded this he was in Hailar, although the war was not yet over.

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Here is a closer look at the 36th area of operation.
I always thought this was for action against Japan but I thought there might also be a tiny chance that it was to a Mongolian. Not too far out geographically but totally out ethnically.

A proper grease monkey!

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A picture of the recipient in his civvies.