Glory II,09246,Mortar Commander,69th Rifle Regiment,Karellen

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Document pertaining to Order of Glory II # 9426
A. Information card
Order Booklet No
1. Last name : MUHACHEV
2. Name and patronymic: Vasiliy Antonovich
3. Rank: Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Birth year: 1908
6. Birth place:
1. Party membership: Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since December 1944
7. Education:
8. Nationality: Russian
9. Joined red army: 25.05.1942
10. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Commander of the mortar-thrower unit of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, 69th Rifle Regiment, 97th Rifle Vitebsky Red Banner Division
11. Place of service at current time: Commander of the mortar-thrower unit of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, 69th Rifle Regiment, 97th Rifle Vitebsky Red Banner Division
12. Home address: Irkutsk Region, Nizhne-Udinsky District, village of Shumskoe, 2 Shumsky Lumber Mill.
13. Awards
Award name Award number Document number Reason for awarding
Order of Glory III by order #043 / n of the 97th Rifle Division 02.09.1944
Order of Glory II 9.426 By order # 01 / d of the 97th Rifle Division 28.02.1945
Order of Red Star by order # 068/ n of the 97th Rifle Division 15.11.1944

Data provided by the District Military Commission of Irkutsky Region, the award recipient has been killed on the battlefield of the Great Patriotic War on 6 April 1945

Nizhne Udinsky District Military Commission,
Lt.-Colonel Safonov
16/07/52

Award sheet
2. Last name, name and patronymic : MUHACHEV Vasiliy Antonovich
3. Rank : Sergeant
4. Duty position and Unit: Commander of the mortar-thrower unit of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, 69th Rifle Regiment, 97th Rifle Vitebsky Red Banner Division
5. Birth year: 1908
6. Nationality: Russian
7. Party membership: Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since December 1944
8. In combat: Patriotic War - in the active Army ranks since 25 August 1942
9. Wounds of Contusions: Lightly wounded 17.01.1945
10. In Red Army: 25.05.1942
11. Inducted by: Nizhne-Udinsky DMC, Irkutsk Region
12. Earlier Awards: Order of Glory III by order #043 / n of the 97th Rifle Red Banner Division 02.09.1944, Order Red Star by order # 068/ n 15.11.1944 of the 97th rifle Red Banner Division
13. Permanent address: Irkutsk Region, Nizhne-Udinsky District, village of Shumskoe, 2 Shumsky Lumber Mill. Wife: Muhacheva Anastasia Prokopievna
Short, specific presentation of the personal military feat or achievement:
During the offensive on the dwelling of Karellen, while breaking through the German defense in East Prussia on 17/01/45, Sergeant MUHACHEV, commander of mortar-thrower unit, was lightly wounded in battle but didn't abandon the regiment, continuing to lead his crew which demolished by its fire attack 2 enemy stationary machine guns and suppressed the heavy mortar thrower attack by the enemy.
I petition for awarding Sergeant Comrade MUHACHEV with the Order "Glory 2nd Degree".
COMMANDER OF THE 69th RIFLE REGIMENT LT. COLONEL BULYGIN 02/03/45
Merits the award with the government award of Order "Glory 2nd Degree"
Commander of the 97th Rifle Vitebsky Red Banner Division, Guard Colonel Pukarev 28 February 1945
Commander of the 65th Corps, Major-General Perekrestov 11 March 1945

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Here is the original citation. Quite a short and sweet one.