07-10-2012, 08:26 PM
Order
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:
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2. Mortarman in the 1st Mortar Company Guards Private Tikhon Semyonovich Zhulkov, for the fact that he, during the fighting for the village of Gribovy Dvory in the Oryol Oblast, displayed courage and bravery.
During the repulsion of an enemy counterattack on August 13, 1943, comrade Zhulkov, working as a mortar layer, brought down a hammering fire right on the enemy target, cutting off the enemy infantry from the tanks, which was partially destroyed and partially fled in a disorderly fashion, and also forced the enemy tanks to turn around, which aided in the repulsion of the enemy counterattack.
He wasn't decorated previously.
Born in 1907, Russian, not a party member, worker, had two classes of education, drafted into the Red Army on April 10, 1942 by the military commissariat of the Komintern Raion of the Voronezh Oblast. Place of birth: Voronezh Oblast, Usman Raion, village of Novo-Ugdyanka. Wife: Maria Yefimovna Zhulkova, lives there too.
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Regimental commander
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] / Kuznetsov /
Chief of staff of the regiment
Guards Major [signed] / Yarosh /
Order nr. 047/N
Of the 99th Guards Rifle Regiment, 31st Guards Rifle Division, 11th Guards Army, Western Front
August 18, 1943 – Active Army
Of the 99th Guards Rifle Regiment, 31st Guards Rifle Division, 11th Guards Army, Western Front
August 18, 1943 – Active Army
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I award:
The Bravery Medal to:
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2. Mortarman in the 1st Mortar Company Guards Private Tikhon Semyonovich Zhulkov, for the fact that he, during the fighting for the village of Gribovy Dvory in the Oryol Oblast, displayed courage and bravery.
During the repulsion of an enemy counterattack on August 13, 1943, comrade Zhulkov, working as a mortar layer, brought down a hammering fire right on the enemy target, cutting off the enemy infantry from the tanks, which was partially destroyed and partially fled in a disorderly fashion, and also forced the enemy tanks to turn around, which aided in the repulsion of the enemy counterattack.
He wasn't decorated previously.
Born in 1907, Russian, not a party member, worker, had two classes of education, drafted into the Red Army on April 10, 1942 by the military commissariat of the Komintern Raion of the Voronezh Oblast. Place of birth: Voronezh Oblast, Usman Raion, village of Novo-Ugdyanka. Wife: Maria Yefimovna Zhulkova, lives there too.
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Regimental commander
Guards Lieutenant Colonel [signed] / Kuznetsov /
Chief of staff of the regiment
Guards Major [signed] / Yarosh /
