Kuz'menko, Isaj Emil'janovich, Company Commander, 58th Guards Cavalry Regiment

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Record card

Order booklet nr. G-598746

1. Last name: Kuz’menko
2. First name and patronymic: Isai Emel’yanovich
3. Military rank: Guards Private
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1902
6. Place of birth: Dnepropetrovsk Oblast, Mezhevsky area, City of Aleksandrovka
7. Party membership (since which year): Not a member
8. Education: Lower
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Red Army: From 06.1941 to 03.1946
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position at the time of the award: 58th Guards Cavalry Regiment, 16th Guards Cavalry Division – Commander of a Machine gun company
12. Current place of service and position: Collective farm “Frunze” – Security Guard
13. Home address of the awardee: Village of Grigorievka, Mezhevsky area, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast

14. Record of all awards received:

Names of the orders and medals Their numbers Numbers of the documents Ground of award
Medal “For Bravery” 1753247 Temporary Certificate Lost Decree of the 58th Guards Cavalry Regiment No.03/N of 04.02.1945
Order of Glory 3rd Class 678637 Order Booklet 598746 Decree of the 16th Guards Cavalry Division No.26/N if 30.05.1945

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Military Commissariat of the Mezhevsky area
Lieutenant Colonel [signed]
19th February 1952

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Order

Order nr. 06/N

Of the 58th Guards Cavalry Regiment, 16th Guards Chernigov Red Banner Order of Suvorov Cavalry Division, 7th Guards Red Banner Corps

4th February 1945, No.03/N Field Army

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:

The Medal for Courage to:

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2. Commander of the 3rd squadron of the Saber section, Guards Sergeant Kuz’menko Isai Emel’yanovich for that, he participated in the battles with the German invaders as part of the 17th Cavalry Division, 127th Cavalry Regiment in the direction of Pervomaisky (Mayday) on the Western Front on 02.08.1941. He was lightly wounded whilst part of this squadron during the Regiments defence of Voronezh on 29.07.1942. He was seriously wounded whilst participating in the battle surrounding the city of Talodum? on the 1st Belorussian Front on 15.11.1943. He is a disciplined, exacting junior commander, his department shows good organization and discipline.

Born 1902, Ukrainian, Not a party member, inducted by the Mezhevsky region military commissariat, Dnepropetrovsk oblast. Home address: [trans: interntionally obscured]

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Commander of the 58th Cavalry Regiment
Guards Lieutenant Colonel / [signed] /Pakharevsky

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Award sheet

1. Last name, first name, and patronymic: Kuz’menko, Isai Emel’yanovich
2. Rank: Guards Sergeant
3. Position and unit: Machine Gun Company Commander, 58th Guards Tomasovsky Red Banner Cavalry Regiment, 16th Guards Chernigov Order of Lenin – Order of Suvorov Red Banner Cavalry Division, 7th Guards Red Banner Cavalry Corps

Nominated for: Order of Glory 3rd Class

4. Year of birth: 1902
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party affiliation: Not a member
7. Participation in the Civil War and the subsequent combat actions to defend the motherland: From 22.06.1941 to 9.08.1941 in the Pervomaisky area, from 2.12.1941 to 29.7.1942 in the Voronezh area, from 10.01.1943 to 15.11.1943 on the Belorussian front and since 16.1.1944 on the 1st Belorussian front
8. Wounds and contusions received: Lightly wounded 9.8.1941, heavily wounded 29.7.1942, heavily wounded 25.4.1945
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1941
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Mezhevsky Region Military Commissariat, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
11. Awards received previously: Medal for Bravery by decree of the 58th Guards Cavalry Regiment of 5.1.1945 No.01/N
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: [trans: intentionally obscured]

Short, concrete description of his feat of arms or merits:

On 25.04.1945 during action with airborne troops on a tank on the approaches to the northern outskirts of Brandenburg, when bursting into the location of the enemy defense, the tank came under fire from enemies armed with Panzerfaust. Comrade Kuz’menko quickly joined the fight. With fire from his heavy machine gun he destroyed a group of 15 enemy Volkssturm soldiers. 5 people were taken prisoner. The tank was rescued and its advancement was secured.

He is deserving of the award, the order of Glory 3rd Class.

Commander of the 58th Guards Tomansky Red Banner Cavalry Regiment

Guards Lieutenant Colonl / [signed] /Pakhorevsky

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The place where he was wounded was Malodum, Gomel Okrug, BSSR. Must have been renamed or destroyed as it's not currently on the maps.