For Bravery,0721116,120mm Mortar Battery Adjuster,956th Rifle Regiment,Har'kov

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Here is where the 53th Army was situation just prior to Kursk. After Kursk the 53rd Army participated in the Belgorod-Har'kov Offensive Operation from 12th to 23rd August 1943 (with the 229th Rife Division being named "Har'kov" for their participation in the liberation) and then in the Poltava-Kremenchug Operation from 26th August to 30th September 1943. A series of offensives taking the 956th Rifle Regiment from east of Kursk to the Dniepr. An 82mm Mortarman of the 956th (Vladimir Filippovich Sablin) would be posthumously awarded the Title "Hero Of The Soviet Union" for action at the very end of the second operation.