Red Star,1464657,Head Of Staff,Reserve Airfield Servicing Battalion,8th Air Army

[Tommy]

Record card  

Record card  

Order booklet nr. A-012856  

1. Last name: Priymak
2. First name and patronymic: Ivan Yevdokimovich
3. Military rank: Lieutenant Colonel of the Quartermaster Service
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1909
6. Place of birth: Village of Krasivoye, Alekseyevka Raion, Kharkov Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1941
8. Education: Secondary, unfinished
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: Since 1934
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: Chief of the Quartermaster Section of military unit nr. 74402
12. Current place of service and position: Unemployed, retired
13. Home address of the awardee: 44 Schmidt Street, apartment 16, city of Sverdlovsk  
14. Record of all awards received:  


Name of the order or medal Serial number Number of the document Ground of award

Medal for Courage 51427 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the Southwestern Front nr. 042/N of February 23, 1942
Medal for Combat Merit 1585066 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 3, 1944 Order of the Red Star 1464657 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945
Order of the Red Star 2928960 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 15, 1950
Order of the Red Banner 443010 Order booklet nr. A-012856 Decree of November 5, 1954
Medal for the Victory over Germany                

Signature of the awardee: [signed]  
I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):  

Officer of the 3rd Section of the Military Commissariat of the Sverdlovsk Oblast Captain

[signed] /Grekhov/ February 5, 1955

[Tommy]

Order  

Secret Copy nr.  

Order  

Of the 8th Air Army, 4th Ukrainian Front   June 4, 1945 - Nr. 29/N - Active Army  

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:  

[…]  

The Order of the Red Star to:  

[…]  

30. Major of the Quartermaster Service Ivan Yevdokimovich Priymak, chief of staff of a reserve airfield servicing battalion of the 8th Air Army  

[…]

[Tommy]

Award sheet  

Award sheet  


1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Priymak, Ivan Yevdokimovich
2. Rank: Major of the Quartermaster Service
3. Position and unit: Chief of staff of a reserve airfield servicing battalion of the 8th Air Army [corrected from Chief of the Procurement Group for Agricultural Products in Polish and German Territory] Nominated for: Order of the Red Star
4. Year of birth: 1909
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party
7. Participation in the Civil War, the subsequent combat actions to defend the USSR, and the Patriotic War (where and when): In the Patriotic War since 1941
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Red Army: Since 1934
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Lozavaya Raion, city of Lozovaya, Kharkov Oblast
11. Awards received previously (for which merits): Medal for Courage and Medal for Combat Merit
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family: ______________  


Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:  

Comrade Priymak has been serving with the army's Quartermaster Supply Section since April 1945, having been transferred from the officers' reserve of the army's Personnel Section.

Being an old and experienced administrator, he was appointed chief of the procurement group tasked with procuring agricultural products and meat in Polish and German territory.  

Heading the procurement group during this period, comrade Priymak showed himself an excellent procurement organizer. He properly assigned his subordinate officers and soldiers and under his leadership 310 heads of cattle and 200 tons of food grain were procured.  

Comrade Priymak is a disciplined and cultured officer. He is morally stalwart and capably of keeping military secrets.  

He is dedicated to the Party of Lenin and Stalin and the socialist motherland. He deserves the Order of the Red Star.  

Chief of the Quartermaster Supply Section of the 8th Air Army Major of the Quartermaster Service [signed] /Neglyad/ May 15, 1945      

I agree with the characterization; he deserves the Order of the Red Star.  
Deputy commander for rear area affairs of the 8th Air Army Major General of Aviation [signed] /Malyshev/ May 19, 1945      

By Order of the 8th Air Army nr. 29/N of June 4, 1945 awarded the Order of the Red Banner [sic].   Senior assistant chief of the 2nd Subsection of the Personnel Section of the 8th Air Army

Major [signed] /Belyayev/

[Tommy]

Here it is,

My thanks to Auke and the previous owner.





Cheers,

Tom

[CtahhR]

What a start to a citation.... "being an old...."

[Bill Garvy]

Thirty-six was an old, experienced administrator.

[Auke]

In an army full of enlisted men born in the mid-1920s, being from 1909 makes you old apparently...

[CtahhR]

I wonder how old the person was writing the citation.
I suppose the Great Patriotic War could make anyone old very quickly if they were in the thick of it.