For Combat Merits,U/N 1969,Operative,Alma-Ata UMVD,1947 Catch-Up

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Here is an unnumbered Medal "For Combat Merits".

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Awarded to Stepan Iosifovich Shkurenko on 6th November 1947 but not issued until 7th May 1969.

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1. Family, Name And Patronym, Shkrenko, Stepan Iosifovich
2. Rank, Lieutenant
3. Position, Unit, Formerly, Commander of a platoon, 513th Rifle Regiment, 162nd Rifle Division, Now Frunze Regional Military Commissariat, Alma-Ata, Alma-Ata UMVD - Operative
Presented for Award of the Order "Red Star".
4. Year Of Birth, 1922
5. Nationality, Ukrainian
6. Party Membership, Candidate VKP/b/
7. Participation in the Civil War, subsequent military activity in defence of the USSR and Patriotic War (where, when) Participant in the Patriotic War Western Front 162nd Rifle Division, 513th Rifle Regiment from 09-01-1942 to 19-02-1942
8. Had Which Wounds And Contusions in the Patriotic War 1 Heavy Contusion 19-02-1942
9. From What Time In Red Army, 24-06-1941 - 19-01-1943.
10. Which Regional Military Commissariat Called,
11. Has which awards (for which distinction), Not awarded

Lieutenant Shkurenko, Stepan Iosifovich Participant in the Patriotic War on the Western Front in the staff of the 162nd Rifle Division, 513th Rifle Regiment from 09-01-1942 to 19-02-1942 in the position of Commander of a Rifle Platoon.
While defending Durovo Station on the Vjazma Offensive Front 19th February 1942 was heavily contused by the burst of an aerial bomb with damage to the central nervous system and damage to the nervous systems of the limbs and subsequent residual phenomenon of contusion of the spinal cord.
Reference of Evacuation Hospital 2555 of 13-08-1942.
Lieutenant Shkurenko has worked from the month of October 1945 as an operative of Alma-Ata Oblast Department of the MVD, with work relates honestly, with good faith, disciplined.
Worthy of award of the Order "Red Star".
Frunze Regional Military Commissar Alma-Ata Captain Abubakirov

10th June 1946