Award sheet
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Vekhin, Grigory Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Major General
3. Duty position, unit: Commander of the 350th Zhitomir Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division
Recommended for: Hero of the Soviet Union title
4. Year of birth: 1901
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Member of the Communist Party since 1926, party membership booklet nr. 2160352
7. Participation in the Civil War and the following combat actions for the defense of the USSR (where, when): In the Civil War from August 1919 to June 1921. In the Patriotic War since June 1941 with the Karelian, Southwestern, and 1st Ukrainian Front
8. Suffered wounds and contusions in the Patriotic War: Wounded in November 1919 and March 1920, contused in August 1941 and November 1941
9. Since when in the Red Army: 1919
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military commissariat of the Vyterga Raion
11. Which earlier awards (for which merits): Order of the Red Banner in 1940, Order of the Red Banner in 1943, Order of the Red Banner in 1944, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class in 1943, Medal for 20 Years of Red Army in 1938
12. Permanent home address (of the recommendee or his family): _______
Short, concrete description of personal combat feat or merits:
On July 14, 1944, units of the 350th Rifle Division, commanded by Major General Vekhin, proceeded to the attack along an eight kilometer wide front from the entry bank at Stokhostavy and Kholotov.
Having broken through the enemy defense lines and having pursued the enemy to the Bug River, comrade Vekhin crossed the Bug in several battles and pressed a further advance on July 23, 1944, and threw the enemy across the San River hotfoot. In a battle, he took the city of Leżajsk fighting, which was a heavily fortified German defense point on the approaches to the Vistula River.
Having beaten down the fiercely resisting enemy, comrade Vekhin, on July 29, 1944, the first in the corps, crossed the Vistula River and expanded the bridgehead to a front line of 10 kilometers long and to a depth of 8 kilometers.
Repeated enemy attempts on July 27 and 28 to counterattack and retake the lost shores and throw the units of comrade Vekhin across the Vistula were repulsed, resulting in heavy enemy losses.
During the period of offensive combat since July 13, the units of comrade Vekhin captured 321 enemy soldiers and officers, 402 rifles and submachine guns, 20 machine guns, 5 mortars, 23 guns, 12 vehicles, 200,000 rounds, killed 3,002 soldiers and officers, destroyed 330 rifles and submachine guns, 18 machine guns, 18 guns, 17 vehicles, 17 armored personnel carriers, and 19 tanks.
In the same period, the division liberated an area of 2,600 square kilometers, 487 villages and 15 railway stations.
For his capable command of the division, the successful crossing of the Bug, San, and Vistula rivers, and his personal courage and bravery as a commander, he deserves the Hero of the Soviet Union title.
Commander of the 24th Rifle Corps
Guards Lieutenant General [signature] /Kiryukhin/
August 2, 1944
Deserves to be awarded the Order of Lenin.
Commander of the 13th Army
Lieutenant General [signature] /Pukhov/
Member of the military counsil of the army
Major General [signature] /Kozlov/
August 23, 1944
Awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title and given the Order of Lenin and Gold Star Medal by Decree of May 29, 1945.
1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Vekhin, Grigory Ivanovich
2. Rank: Guards Major General
3. Duty position, unit: Commander of the 350th Zhitomir Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division
Recommended for: Hero of the Soviet Union title
4. Year of birth: 1901
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Member of the Communist Party since 1926, party membership booklet nr. 2160352
7. Participation in the Civil War and the following combat actions for the defense of the USSR (where, when): In the Civil War from August 1919 to June 1921. In the Patriotic War since June 1941 with the Karelian, Southwestern, and 1st Ukrainian Front
8. Suffered wounds and contusions in the Patriotic War: Wounded in November 1919 and March 1920, contused in August 1941 and November 1941
9. Since when in the Red Army: 1919
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military commissariat of the Vyterga Raion
11. Which earlier awards (for which merits): Order of the Red Banner in 1940, Order of the Red Banner in 1943, Order of the Red Banner in 1944, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class in 1943, Medal for 20 Years of Red Army in 1938
12. Permanent home address (of the recommendee or his family): _______
Short, concrete description of personal combat feat or merits:
On July 14, 1944, units of the 350th Rifle Division, commanded by Major General Vekhin, proceeded to the attack along an eight kilometer wide front from the entry bank at Stokhostavy and Kholotov.
Having broken through the enemy defense lines and having pursued the enemy to the Bug River, comrade Vekhin crossed the Bug in several battles and pressed a further advance on July 23, 1944, and threw the enemy across the San River hotfoot. In a battle, he took the city of Leżajsk fighting, which was a heavily fortified German defense point on the approaches to the Vistula River.
Having beaten down the fiercely resisting enemy, comrade Vekhin, on July 29, 1944, the first in the corps, crossed the Vistula River and expanded the bridgehead to a front line of 10 kilometers long and to a depth of 8 kilometers.
Repeated enemy attempts on July 27 and 28 to counterattack and retake the lost shores and throw the units of comrade Vekhin across the Vistula were repulsed, resulting in heavy enemy losses.
During the period of offensive combat since July 13, the units of comrade Vekhin captured 321 enemy soldiers and officers, 402 rifles and submachine guns, 20 machine guns, 5 mortars, 23 guns, 12 vehicles, 200,000 rounds, killed 3,002 soldiers and officers, destroyed 330 rifles and submachine guns, 18 machine guns, 18 guns, 17 vehicles, 17 armored personnel carriers, and 19 tanks.
In the same period, the division liberated an area of 2,600 square kilometers, 487 villages and 15 railway stations.
For his capable command of the division, the successful crossing of the Bug, San, and Vistula rivers, and his personal courage and bravery as a commander, he deserves the Hero of the Soviet Union title.
Commander of the 24th Rifle Corps
Guards Lieutenant General [signature] /Kiryukhin/
August 2, 1944
Deserves to be awarded the Order of Lenin.
Commander of the 13th Army
Lieutenant General [signature] /Pukhov/
Member of the military counsil of the army
Major General [signature] /Kozlov/
August 23, 1944
Awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union title and given the Order of Lenin and Gold Star Medal by Decree of May 29, 1945.
