Patriotic War II,0372485,Sapper Platoon Leader,225th Guards Rifle Regiment

[Tommy]

Award Card
Order Booklet 486498  
Last name:  Shpachenko
Name and patrionymic:  Fedor Ivanovich
Rank:  Guards Lieutenant
Gender:  Male
Birthyear:  February 1913
Birthplace:  Kirovograd Oblast, Kirovograd Region, village of Oredorovka
Party membership:  since August 1944  
Education:  elementary
Nationality:  Ukrainian
Time in Red Army:  June 1941 – July 1945  
Place of service at awarding:  Sapper Platoon Leader – 33 Guards Rifle Corps, 78 Guards Rifle Division, 225 Guards Rifle Regiment
Place of work at present:  unemployed  
Home address:  Tbilisi, Borba St. 108 Block, #11, Apartment 15

Awards:

Designation  Serial Number  Awarding Organization
Patriotic War II  372.485  33 Guards Rifle Corps dated 14 SEP 1944 

Verified by Tbilisi Stalin Regional Military Commissariat Military Commissar Major Gabunya on 31 January 1946  

[Tommy]

Award Sheet  

Last name, name, and patrionymic:  Shapchenko, Fedor Ivanovich
Rank:  Guards Lieutenant
Duty position:  Sapper Platoon Leader – 225 Guards Red Banner Rifle Regiment, 78 Guards Rifle Division Recommendation for the Order of the Patriotic War II Class
Born:  1913
Nationality:  Ukrainian
Party membership:  since 1942
Previous combat:  since 1.11.42 on the Voronezh, Steppe, 2, and 1 Ukrainian Fronts
Wounds or shell-shock:  n/a
In Red Army:  since 1941
Inducted by:  Kirovograd Municipal Military Commissariat
Previous awards:  n/a
Home of record:  [trans:  entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment      

On 5.8.44 on the approach to Melets, he and his platoon demined more than 400 mines under enemy artillery fire, thus permitting the successful passage of our infantry.     

 On 6.8.44 during the Regiment’s forced crossing of the Vislok, Comrade Shpachenko, despite the absence of appropriate crossing means, organized the crossing of the Regiment’s subordinate units.  For three days without rest under continuous enemy fire Comrade Shpachenko worked on the crossing without displaying fatigue, supplying the regiment with ammunition, supplies, and evacuating wounded soldiers and officers to the near shore.        

For capable demining and for a well-organized river crossing Comrade Shpachenko is deserving of the Order of the Patriotic War II Class.

Signed Commander, 225 Guards Red Banner Rifle Regiment,

Hero of the Soviet Union Guards Lieutenant Colonel Pleshkov on 26.8.44

[Al-muell]

Without seeing the actual document I can only guess, but the river Vislok seems to be Wisłok - a river that flows to San which flows to Vistula, situated in the southern Poland.

[CtahhR]

Here is the original citation. He also received an OPWI'85.