For Bravery,3276757,Rifleman,279th Guards Rifle Regiment,22nd Guards Rifle Division

[Norm Braddock]

Documents pertaining to Bravery Medal #3.276.757

1. Award card

Booklet #G 860843
1. Last name: Kubachev
2. Name and Patrionymic: Mikhail Ivanovich
3. Rank: Private
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1899
6. Birthplace: Belorussian SSR, Vitebsk Oblast, Suratskii Region, Shabrovskii Selsovet, village of Myanny
7. Party Membership: n/a
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Belorussian
10. Service in the Red Army: 7.1944-10.1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Rifleman – 2 Belrussian Front, 17 Rifle Division, 279 Guards Rifle Regiment
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Belorussian SSR, Vitebsk Oblast, Dubrovenskii Region, “May Day” Collective Farm – Field warden
13. Home of Record: Belorussian SSR, Vitebsk Oblast, Dubrovenskii Region, Tilevicheskii Selsovet, “May Day” Collective Farm
14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder
Bravery Medal 3.276.757 Edict dated 30.5.1951
Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 8.5.1945

Verified by Dubrovenskii Regional Military Commissariat Major of Administrative Services Okunov on 29 August 1951

2. Award Citation

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Kurbachev, Mikhail Ivanovich
2. Rank: Private
3. Duty position: Rifleman – 279 Rifle [trans: sic, no Guards] Regiment, 22 Guards Rifle Division, 1 Belorussian Front
Recommendation for the Bravery Medal
4. Born: 1899
5. Nationality: Belorussian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Combat participation: 1 Belorussian Front from January 1945 through 7 April 1945
8. Wounds or shell-shock: seriously wounded in the right shoulder 7.4.45
9. In Red Army: April 1942-4 November 1943 in a partisan detachment, Kutuzov Partisan Brigade, and from January 1945 through 23 October 1945 in the Soviet Army
10. Inducted by: Surazhskii Regional Military Commissariat, Vitebsk Oblast on 23.01.45
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: “May Day” Collective Farm, Tilivicheskii Selsovet, Dubrovenskii Region, Vitebsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

Private Comrade Kurbachev, M.I. as a rifleman in the 279 Guards Rifle Regiment, 22 Guards Rifle Division, 1 Belorussian Front, participated in combat against the German fascist invaders from January 1945 through 7 April 1945. In offensive fighting near Zemberg, Eastern Prussia, he was seriously wounded in the right shoulder on 7.4.1945.

The shrapnel wound damaged his torso and shoulder nerves. This wound is verified by Statement #2390 issued by EvacHospital #2009 on 22.10.45.

As a result of the wounding to his right arm extremity, he lost the ability to clench a fist and has limited movement of his right arm in the shoulder joint.

At the present, Comrade Kurbachev, M.I. is an invalid of the third category working in the May Day Collective Farm, Dubrovenskii Region, Vitebsk Oblast. He works as a farmer.

For his participation on the front of the Patriotic War and for having been seriously wounded, he is deserving of the Bravery Medal.

Signed Dubrovenskii Regional Military Commissariat Major Basov and Regional Communist Party Secretary Savik on 9 September 1949

Endorsed Commissar of the Vitebsk Oblast Military Commissariat Colonel Tokarev on 26 September 1949

Endorsed Commander of Forces, Belorussian Military District, Marshal of the Soviet Union S. Timoshenko on 19.10.1949