For Combat Merits,2749625,Turner,Repair Workshop,31st Zenit-Artillery Division

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Here is the Medal "For Combat Merits" #2749625.

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1. Family, Opryshko
2. Name And Patronym, Jakov Alekseevich
3. Military Rank, Guards Red Army Soldier
4. Sex, Male
5. Year Of Birth, 1919
6. Place Of Birth, Kiev Oblast, Borispol' Region, Glubokoe
7. Party Membership, Non-Partisan
8. Education, None
9. Nationality, Ukrainian
10. From Which Year In Red Army, From March 1944 - November 1945
11. Which Service And Position At Time Of Award, Divisional Workshop, 31st Zenit Artillery Division, 5th Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front - Work Shop Worker
12. Place Of Service And Position At Current Time, Chervonov, Collective Farm Named Chemosnits
13. Current address of awarded, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Mironov Region, Chemosnits

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1. Family, Name, Patronym. Opryshko, Jakov Alekseevich
2. Rank. Guards Red Army Soldier
3. Position and unit. Turner, Artillery Repair Workshop, 31st Zenit-Artillery Warsaw Red Banner Order Bogdan Hmel'nitskij Division
Presented For The Governmental Award - Medal "For Combat Merits"
4. Year of birth. 1919
5. Nationality. Ukrainian
6. Party Membership. Non-Partisan
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War /where, when/ Patriotic War from September 1941 to November 1941 - Southern Front, from March 1944 to current time 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian Fronts
8. Has been wounded, contused in Patriotic War. One wound
9. From which time in Red Army. From 1949.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat called. Shirokov Regional Commissariat, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
11. Has received awards (for which distinction). Not awarded

Guards Red Army Soldier Opryshko, being in the workshop from August 1944, fully provides all the necessary lathe detailing, reconditioning of the artillery workshop artillery firing weapons. For this period he manufactured 2608 varying details of high quality, which contributed to the return to operation 85mm Guns - 22, 37mm Guns - 31, Degtjarev-Shpagin Large-Calibre Guns - 30, Pistols-Submachine Guns - 45.

For exemplary fulfilment of tasks, related to the restoration of artillery firing weapons, is worthy of the Governmental award - Medal "For Combat Merits".

Commander 31st Zenit-Artillery Warsaw Red Banner Order Bogdan Hmel'nitskij Division Reserve Of The Supreme Command Engineer-Colonel Filenkov

16th May 1945