Here is a group to Junior Sergeant Vahtang Dmitrievich Dzemalashvili (Младший Сержант Вахтанг Дмитриевич Дземалашвили) consisting of Order "Red Star", Medal "For Bravery", Medal "For The Defence Of The Caucasus" and two "gratitudes".
This was a forum marketplace purchase in which it was described as "EXCELLENT ENLISTED COMBAT VETERAN SET FROM VICIOUS SOUTHERN BELT/CRIMEA FIGHTING!" so we'll have to see if research corroborates this.
Firstly we have the original marketplace photograph and his "gratitudes".
Commander of a fire team Submachinegunner Junior Sergeant Comrade Dzemalashvili Vahtang Dmitrievich, during the battle of 3rd October 1943 in the area of the cossack village of Vyshesteblievskaja, He with his squad engaged with volley fire the enemy firing position's flank, thus allowing a devastating, decisive rush to close with the enemy.
Born 1924, Georgian, Member of VKLSM, Joined Red Army 1st August 1942, Gori Region Military Commissariat, Received no wounds.
The hand writing of whoever wrote this is rather poor. I don't know if they were Georgian and unused to Cyrillic or on the move at the time but it is quite scribbled.
Here is the location of the action, right at the end of the Taman peninsula and only a few miles from the Crimean peninsula and Kerch.
Name; Dzemalashvili, Vahtang Dmitrievich
Rank; Red Army Soldier (Administrative mistake?)
Position; Submachinegunner, Submachinegun Company, 1367th Rifle "Sevastopol" Regiment, 414th Rifle "Anapskaja" Red Banner Division.
Recommended for; "Red Star"
Date of birth; 1924
Nationality; Georgian
Party membership; VKLSM
Participation in Patriotic War; 1st August 1942 North Caucasian Front
Wounds/Shellshock; Doesn't have
Served in Red Army since; 1942
Recruiting Military Commissariat; Gori, Georgian SSR
During fierce fighting in breaking the enemy fortifications of the city of Sevastopol. Soldier Dzemalashvili demonstrated the highest example of bravery and persistence.
Participating in the assault on the fire points in the area of village "Otradnyj," 9th May 1944, courageously provided heavy fire response on target and ignited a bundle of grenades ensuring a lightning breakthrough of the entire platoon into enemy trenches. During the battle he accounted for 13 personally destroyed Hitlerites.
He is worthy of the award Order "Red Star"
Finally here is a map showing his route in combat. It may have taken him and his unit 4 months to cross from the Taman Peninsula to the Crimean Peninsula but once there it only took a month to liberate Sevastopol.
Maybe PJS was totally on the ball when he stated "EXCELLENT ENLISTED COMBAT VETERAN SET FROM VICIOUS SOUTHERN BELT/CRIMEA FIGHTING!".
