09-30-2013, 01:54 AM
[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Kukava, Shalva Kaderbovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: Radio Squad Leader – 1232nd Cannon Artillery Regiment
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1910
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War. November 1942 to March 1943 (?) and since June 1943 to present on the South Western Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Zugdidi Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
On 8.9.43 Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to the infantry front lines and provided uninterrupted communications from the lead observation post (OP) to the battalion’s positions.
On 8.9.43 near Suligovka Comrade Kukava advanced with his radio station 100m from the enemy’s front lines and mainted uninterrupted radio communications with the battalion’s OP. In this engagement the battalion’s fire destroyed an enemy self-propelled artillery gun and suppressed two enemy artillery batteries and a mortar battery.
On 9.9.43 near Novo-Dmitrievka Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to a lead OP and established continuous communications with the battalion’s OP and supplied the communications throughout the course of the day.
On 11.9.43 near Barvenkovo Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to the lead OP and provided communications with the battalion’s OP and supporting communications all day, thus enabling accomplishment of the regiment’s mission.
For exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s mission on the front in the struggle against the German invaders, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 1232nd Cannon Artillery Regiment, Major Komardin
Awarded the Order of the Red Star signed Commander, 115th Cannon Artillery Brigade, Colonel Polyakov on 14.10.43
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Kukava, Shalva Kaderbovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: Radio Squad Leader – 1232nd Cannon Artillery Regiment
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1910
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War. November 1942 to March 1943 (?) and since June 1943 to present on the South Western Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Zugdidi Military Commissariat, GSSR
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
On 8.9.43 Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to the infantry front lines and provided uninterrupted communications from the lead observation post (OP) to the battalion’s positions.
On 8.9.43 near Suligovka Comrade Kukava advanced with his radio station 100m from the enemy’s front lines and mainted uninterrupted radio communications with the battalion’s OP. In this engagement the battalion’s fire destroyed an enemy self-propelled artillery gun and suppressed two enemy artillery batteries and a mortar battery.
On 9.9.43 near Novo-Dmitrievka Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to a lead OP and established continuous communications with the battalion’s OP and supplied the communications throughout the course of the day.
On 11.9.43 near Barvenkovo Comrade Kukava moved with his radio station to the lead OP and provided communications with the battalion’s OP and supporting communications all day, thus enabling accomplishment of the regiment’s mission.
For exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s mission on the front in the struggle against the German invaders, he is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander, 1232nd Cannon Artillery Regiment, Major Komardin
Awarded the Order of the Red Star signed Commander, 115th Cannon Artillery Brigade, Colonel Polyakov on 14.10.43
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