For Combat Merits,0153836,Senior Aircraft Mechanic,68th Aviation Headquarters

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Record card

Order booklet nr. B-171466

1. Last name: Koshlyakov
2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Nikolayevich
3. Military rank: Master Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1912
6. Place of birth: City of Starobelsk
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1941
8. Education: Secondary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From June 1941 to October 1945
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at the time of the award: Head of a workshop of the 68th Mobile Aircraft Repair Base, 4th Air Army, 2nd Belorussian Front
12. Current place of service and duty position: Chairman of the City Council of the Kharkov Voluntary Sport Society “Spartak”
13. Home address of the awardee: 35 Zalesskaya Street, Kharkov
14. Record of all awards presented:


Medal for Combat Merit 153836 Temporary certificate nr. 331816 Order of the Southwestern Front nr. 76/N of June 17, 1942

Order of the Red Star 1721093 Temporary certificate nr. Z-673226 Order of the 4th Air Army nr. 0116/N of June 30, 1945


Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee:

Chief of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Dzerzhinsky Raion
Guards Senior Lieutenant [signed] /Averin/
July 9, 1947

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Award sheet

Last name, first name and patronymic: Koshlyakov, Ivan Nikolayevich
Military rank: Senior Sergeant of Technical Service
Duty position and unit: Senior aircraft mechanic with the airfield crew of the 68th Aviation Garrison Headquarters
Nominated for: Medal for Combat Merit
1. Year of birth: 1912
2. Nationality: Ukrainian
3. Since when in the Red Army: Since June 24, 1941
4. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party
5. Participation in combat (where and when): No
6. Wounds and contusions received: No
7. Which earlier awards (for which merits): None
8. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Dzerzhinsky Raion, Kharkov Oblast
12. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his family):

Short, concrete description of the personal combat feat or merits:

Senior Sergeant I.N. Koshlyakov has been serving as aircraft mechanic with the 68th Aviation Garrison Headquarters since July 1941. During this entire period he carried out all tasks assigned to him by the command in an excellent manner. Working on the airfield in the city of Volchansk for the entire summer of 1941, comrade I.N. Koshlyakov worked with all of his efforts on guaranteeing the trouble-free operation of a detachment of Douglas aircraft.

When the Headquarters supported the 506th Aviation Regiment on Rogan airfield, Senior Sergeant I.N. Koshlyakov, who was repairing aircraft in the mobile aircraft repair workshop, carried out his assignments at 200–250%. While the Headquarters were servicing the 136th Aviation Regiment, comrade Koshlyakov skillfully and quickly carried out the task assigned to him by the command to dispatch a number of aircraft engines to a depot. From January 20 to February 25, 1942 Senior Sergeant Koshlyakov, carried out the task assigned to him by the command to render technical assistance to two combat aircraft of the 90th Independent Aviation Squadron, which had performed an emergency landing.

Despite the lack of a series of essential tools, comrade Koshlyakov displayed initiatives and skills and rendered valuable assistance in preparing aircraft for takeoff. For the last two months Senior Sergeant Koshlyakov has been serving as the head of the mobile aircraft repair workshop, and also successfully organized the ongoing duties of servicing the aircraft of the Detachment of Heavy Aircraft. For his quick reparation of a series of components of two TB-3 heavy aircraft, which enabled these aircraft to fly missions again in a timely manner, comrade Koshlyakov received an expression of gratitude from the commander of the Detachment of Heavy Aircraft of the Southwestern Front.

Comrade I.N. Koshlyakov is an exemplary and disciplined junior commander who is dedicated to the Party of Lenin and Stalin and the socialist motherland. He completely deserves the Medal for Combat Merit.



Chief of the 68th Aviation Garrison Headquarters
Captain [signed] /Popovkin/


Military commissar of the 68th Aviation Garrison Headquarters
Political Officer [signed] /Grinchenko/
April 18, 1942

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Кошляков, иван николаевич ' CSM