Red Banner,269123,Judicial Secretary,Military Tribunal Of Tbilisi,Long Service 1945

[kiwiussr]

Document pertaining to
A. Information card
Order Booklet No 931730

1. Last name : Smotrich
2. Name and patronymic: Leonid Borisovich
3. Rank: Captain
4. Sex: Male
5. Birth year: 1897
6. Birth place: Dnepropetrovsh Region, Pavlograd
7. Party membership: Communist party member since 1945
8. Education: Higher education
9. Nationality: Jew
10. Joined red army: January 1918 – April 1923; July 1941 – December 1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Military Garrison of Tbilisi Tribunal, Clerk of Court
12. Place of service at current time: Kiev Region college of Advocates, Lawyer
13. Home address: Kyiv, 59 Lenin Street, Apt # 4
14. Awards

Award name Award number Document number Reason for awarding
Order red star 1.046.397 30.05.1945
Order of red banner 269.123 06.11.1945
Medal defence of Caucus 31.12.1944
Victory over Germany 09.05.1945




For 21 years and 5 months of service in the Red Army as on November 7, 1945
Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Smotrich, Leonid Borisovich 2. Military rank: Captain of Judiciary 3. Duty position, unit: Judicial secretary of the military tribunal of the Tbilisi garrison Recommended for: Order of the Red Banner
4. Year of birth: 1897 5. Nationality: Jewish 6. Party membership: Candidate-member of the Communist Party 7. Place of birth: City of Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast 8. Participation in the Civil War: No 9. Suffered wounds and contusions: a) During the Civil War: No b) During the Patriotic War: No 10. Since when in the Red Army: From December 1918 to April 10, 1923 and [since] July 1941, and from August 10, 1925 to June 10, 1938 with the NKVD 11. Awarded which orders and medals and when: Medal for the Defense of the Caucasus, Order of the Red Star for years of service 12. Home address: 2 Parallelnaya Street, city of Tbilisi
Short, concrete description of personal combat feat or merits:
Captain of Judiciary comrade Smotrich has been serving with the Red Army, the Cheka, OGPU [Joint State Political Directorate] and NKVD for 21 years and 5 months. He occupied the position of military investigator of the military prosecutor’s office, and in the Cheka, OGPU and NKVD he occupied the positions of detective, deputy section head and section head. Since the beginning of the Patriotic War he has been working as secretary of the military tribunal. With his higher legal education and vast experience in judicial-investigative affairs, comrade Smotrich is well familiar with the activities of a secretary. He carries out the responsibilities entrusted to him in a conscientious and punctual manner. He is politically well-developed. He sufficiently works on the improvement of his functional qualifications and his ideological and political level.
For his long and irreproachable service in the Red Army and the Cheka, OGPU and NKVD, he deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Chairman of the military tribunal of the Transcaucasian Front Major General of Judiciary Matulevich Conclusion of the front’s military council: For his long and irreproachable service in the Red Army and the Cheka, OGPU and NKVD, Captain of Judiciary comrade Smotrich deserves the Order of the Red Banner.
Commander of the Tbilisi Military District Colonel General Trofimenko
Member of the military council of the Tbilisi Military District Major General Yefimov August 31, 1945

[deValcourt]

I have never seen a "for service" Red Banner (or practically any "main stream" award) given to someone for service in state intelligence/security agencies. I can picture this captain as a bureaucrat and perhaps a teacher of the Soviet kind of "political correctness" - giving that phrase a whole new meaning.

I doubt if he even did any real field work at all with the possible exception of WWII, but even during that desperate time, when even the aged or very young were drafted or volunteered, I believe this guy would have served his part in an office rather than in a tank or fox hole.

Regardless, if we're reading about it, his life was probably not top secret.:rolleyes:

Do you suppose you will be getting anything more on this fellow?

Phillip

[kiwiussr]

here is his service record.

Extract from personnel file
Of Captain of Judiciary Leonid Borisovich Smotrich

32. Service in the Red Army

Since when (month and year) Until when (month and year) Position Unit, army, front in wartime and district (army) in peacetime Numbers and dates of the orders of the People’s Commissariat of Defense or district, fleet (in peacetime)
Dec 1918 Dec 1919 Archivist, assistant depot chief 15th Rifle Division and 2nd Brigade of the 15th Rifle Division
Dec 1919 1920 In charge of leaflets, assistant special agent 8th Army staff
1920 1921 Chief of the unit’s administration, assistant chief of the courses 8th Army courses
1921 April 10, 1943 Military investigator Kharkov Military District and the Revolutionary Military Tribunal
Dec ___, 1925 Feb 1935 Assistant agent of the Criminal Investigation Administration, agent of the 1st section of the Criminal Investigation Administration, agent of the 2nd section of the Criminal Investigation Administration, agent of the Criminal Investigation Department, detective of the 2nd section of the Criminal Investigation Department Main Political Directorate of the Ukrainian SSR and the Kiev Oblast Section of the Main Political Directorate
Feb 1935 Mar 1935 Senior inspector Section for local conclusions, Kamchatka Oblast Administration of the NKVD
Mar 1935 Aug 1936 Senior inspector of the section for correctional activities Ibid.
Aug 1936 Jun 10, 1938 Chief of the record section Ibid.
Jul 1941 Jul 1942 Senior secretary Military tribunal of the Poltava and Voroshilovgrad garrison
Jul 1942 Nov 1942 Senior secretary Military tribunal of the Southern and Transcaucasian Front
Nov 1942 Sep 1943 Senior secretary Military tribunal of the Tbilisi garrison
Sep 1943 Feb 1944 Senior secretary Military tribunal of the 12th Rifle Corps
Feb 1944 Jul 1944 Military investigator Military prosecutor’s office of the 45th Army
Jul 1944 Apr 25, 1945 In reserve Personnel section of the rear of the Transcaucasian Front
Apr 25, 1945 Present time Judicial secretary Military tribunal of the Tbilisi garrison, Transcaucasian Front

Sheet drawn up on basis of personnel file.
Deputy Chairman for personnel affairs of the military tribunal of the Transcaucasian Front
Major of Judiciary Galukyan


cheers kiwi