For Combat Merits,0249877,Deputy Head DARM,286th Rifle Division

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #249877.

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1. Family, Vasil'chenko
2. Name And Patronym, Elisej Grigor'evich
3. Military Rank, Senior Lieutenant
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1903
6. Place Of Birth, Pokrovskoe Region, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
7. Party Membership, Member VKP/b/ from 1942
8. Education, 7 Classes
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From 1941
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, 286th Rifle Division, Commissar of the artillery workshop
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time,Governmental Collective Farm Named Lenin, Sofievka Rural Area.
13. Current address of awarded, Zaporozh'e Oblast, Novo-Nikolaev Region, Sofievka Rural Area.

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Family, Name, Patronym. Vasil'chenko, Elisej Grigor'evich
Rank. Senior Lieutenant
Position and unit. Deputy Head of the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop, 286th Rifle Division
Presented For Award of the Medal "For Combat Merits".
1. Year of birth. 1903
2. Nationality. Ukrainian
3. From which time in Red Army. From 1941.
4. Party Membership. Member VKP/b/
5. Participation in War /where, when/ Participated on the Smolensk Front May-August 1941
6. Has been wounded and contused. Wounded and contused
7. Has received awards (for which distinction) Has not been awarded
8. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Red Army Regional Military Commissariat, Zaporozh'e Oblast

For the time working in the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop Comrade Vasil'enko, E. G. has shown himself, as a political worker a skilful organiser of the Red Army masses in performing all orders of the command. Closely communicating with all his personal staff of the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop. Uninterrupted and systematic with all political work, daily explanation to his personal staff of orders of the command, international situation, results of our troops on the fronts of the Patriotic War.
As a result of his selfness work the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop of the 286th Rifle Division greatly coped with the restoration of artillery and small arms in the period of active combat activities of the division.
For excellent work as four masters of the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop is worthy of award of the Medal "For Combat Merits".
Particularly the organisation under his leadership in his avant-garde role amongst his personal staff creating growth in party range on account of the personal workers of the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop.
Comrade Vasil'enko, Elisej Grigor'evich is meriting of award of the Medal "For Combat Merits".
Head of the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop 286th Rifle Division.
Senior Technical Lieutenant Kokin
15-02-1943

Agree to propose Comrade Vasil'chenko active participant in defensive battle with German Fascists in the position of Political Instructor of a company, was wounded heavily after being wounded moved to work at the Divisional Artillery Repair Workshop where he manages to organise the mass in performing the tasks of the command for restoring guns and artillery.
Worthy of award of the Medal "For Combat Merits".
Deputy Commander of the 286th Rifle Division for the rear Lieutenant Colonel Mihajljuk
15-02-1943