12-04-2016, 08:22 PM
[SIZE="3"]Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Troyan, Nikolai Zakharovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: Electrician – 255th Tank Battalion, 51st Tank Brigade
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1921
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: SW Front, Western Front 8.42-1.43, SW Front 1.3.43, Central Front 5.43-present
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Armed Forces: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Savinskii Regional Military Commissariat, Kharkov Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Comrade Troyan has been employed on the most difficult and important sectors of the repair team’s work. During fighting for the “1st of May” village (Kursk Oblast), without rest he and the team’s members repaired nine vehicles in two days, thus enabling the reestablishment of the battalion’s combat capability. He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander of the 255th Tank Battalion, (?), on 10th July, 1943
Awarded Medal “For Combat Service”
Commander, 51st Tank Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Borisov on 14th July, 1943
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1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Troyan, Nikolai Zakharovich
2. Rank: Sergeant
3. Duty position: Electrician – 255th Tank Battalion, 51st Tank Brigade
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1921
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Previous combat: SW Front, Western Front 8.42-1.43, SW Front 1.3.43, Central Front 5.43-present
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Armed Forces: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Savinskii Regional Military Commissariat, Kharkov Oblast
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Comrade Troyan has been employed on the most difficult and important sectors of the repair team’s work. During fighting for the “1st of May” village (Kursk Oblast), without rest he and the team’s members repaired nine vehicles in two days, thus enabling the reestablishment of the battalion’s combat capability. He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.
Signed Commander of the 255th Tank Battalion, (?), on 10th July, 1943
Awarded Medal “For Combat Service”
Commander, 51st Tank Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Borisov on 14th July, 1943
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