03-15-2009, 08:15 PM
I received the following a long while ago, as part of a complete documentation package on what I've always assumed to be a politruk, a political worker. (Leaving aside the debate about the meaning of the word and how it relates to "Lieutenant" 
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The research returned the award card and citations as well, and shows his rise in the ranks as a political soldier - including that stint at the academy.
A different kind of politruk, not a politruk? Or an exception to the rule of records being inaccessible?
)Quote:1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Avramenko, Ivan ******ich
2. Born: 7 February 1904, V. Dneprovsk, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
3. Nationality: Ukrainian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages: n/a
5. Social position: office worker
6. Party membership: non-party member, expelled from party in 9.1947
7. Education: 1 Course, Teacher Seminary in 1921 in V. Dneprovsk, Deputy Political Leaders Courses at the Lenin Political Academy in Shadrinsk 2.43-7.43
8. Combat experience: SW Front JUL-DEC 1941, Voronezh Front DEC 41-FEB 43, 4 Ukrainian Front NOV 43-MAY 45
9. Wounds and shell-shock: shell-shocked twice in August and October 1942
10. Decorations: OPW I in 1945, OPW II in 6.44, and VoG Medal in 1945
11. POW or encircled information: n/a
12. Prip:
13. On record: V. Dneprovsk Regional Military Comissariat, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast
14. Promotions: Captain, Major by 1 Ukrainian Front on 22.3.44
15. Specialty: Quartermaster, 3d Category
16. Branch: #247
17. Health: reduced profile II class
18. Continued diagnosis:
19. Present employment: Chief of Textbook Process, city of V. Dneprovsk
20. Family status: married – wife – Evdokiya Aleseevna Perevyazko, b. 1902, son Oleg, b. 1929, son Vladislav b. 1933, son Yurii b. 1937, daughter Olga b. 1941 – V. Dneprovsk, Bazaar Alley #4
21. Special Remarks: Military ID Ya 00209
22. Military Service
Deputy Platoon Leader, 1 Zaporozhe Cavalry Division, 1 Red Cossack Corps, 11.1926-11.1928
Released on long-term leave 23.11.1928
Assistant Regimental Commissar, 59 Reserve Rifle Regiment, 113 Rifle Brigade, 7.41-12.41
Regimental Party Bureau Inspector, 661 Artillery Regiment, 206 Rifle Division, 12.1941-2.1943
Student, Lenin Academy, 7.1943
Political Cadre Reserve, 7.1943-9.1943
Corps Political Section Inspector, 107 Rifle Corps, 4 Ukrainian Front, 9.43-10.45
Secretary of the Party Commission, 501 Artillery Brigade, 318 Guards Rifle Division (city of Mukachevo), 10.45-1.46
23. Released into the Reserves, 3 Category
The research returned the award card and citations as well, and shows his rise in the ranks as a political soldier - including that stint at the academy.
A different kind of politruk, not a politruk? Or an exception to the rule of records being inaccessible?
Steiner: "Why do you want it so badly? It's just a worthless piece of metal. Look."
