Red Star,0007315,Tank Commander,85th Separate Tank Battalion,Winter War

[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Record card

1. Last name: Grinin
2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Ivanovich
3. Year of birth: 1915
4. Military rank: Junior Commander
5. Position and unit: Tank commander in the 85th Independent Tank Battalion, 39th Independent Light Tank Brigade
6. Name of the award: Order of the Red Star
7. Date and place of feat:
8. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet granting the award: April 7, 1940
9. Order of the People’s Commissar of Defense granting the award:

[Stamp: Award issued on May 13, 1940]

[Pen note: 13th Army]

10. Order nr. 7315
11. Certificate nr.:
12. Order booklet nr.: 045835
13. Nationality:
14. Social situation:
15. Party affiliation:
16. Service in the Red Army:
17. Other information and changes: Unnumbered Medal for Combat Medal awarded by Decree of August 6, 1949 for long service with the MVD with certificate nr. 045835


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[Bill Garvy]

[SIZE="3"]Decree

On awarding Soviet orders and medals to officers, non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the Red Army

For the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions during the fighting with Finnish forces invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, the following are to be decorated:

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With the Order of the Red Star:

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709. Junior Commander Ivan Ivanovich Grinin

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Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
M. Kalinin

Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
A. Gorkin

Kremlin, Moscow
April 7, 1940

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