Glory III,045533,Gunner,133rd Rifle Regiment,Narva

[Bill Garvy]

Unit Award List
Indicates Order of Glory #45.533 (List #21) was awarded to Private Ivan Semenovich Kuznetsov in Award Booklet A-1035529 on 30.4.44 according to Division Order 036/N dated 8.4.44.


Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Kuznetsov, Ivan Semenovich
2. Rank: Private
3. Duty position: Gunner – 120mm Mortar Battery, 133 Rifle Regiment, 72 Pavlovsk Red Banner Rifle Division
Recommendation for the Order of Glory III Class
4. Born: 1906
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: since 1941 on the Leningrad Front
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. Time in Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Volovskii Regional Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: Bravery Medal for Leningrad
12. Home of record: Kursk Oblast, Volovskii Region, village of Zamaraevskoe

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
On 26 March 1944 in fighting for the city of Narva, Gunner Kuznetsov and his crew displayed courage and bravery.
On that day He and his crew suppressed three enemy firing positions and repelled enemy attacks with their accurate firing. During repetitive counterattacks the mortar ammunition was fully expended, however with accurate submachine gun bursts Comrade Kuznetsov killed ten Hitlerites. He is deserving of the Order of Glory III Class.
Signed, Commander, 72 Rifle Division, Lieutenant Colonel Titov in April 1944


Abbreviated Award Card #1
Abbreviated award card indicates an Order of Glory was awarded to Russian Senior Sergeant Ivan Semenovich Kuznetsov, machinegunner, 391 Independent Machinegun Artillery Battalion, 152 Defensive Region according to Order 0100/N of the 11 Guards (?), 3 Belorussian Front dated 12.7.44. He was born in 1909 and a Communist Party member.

Abbreviated Award Card #2
Abbreviated award card indicates an Order of Glory was awarded to Senior Sergeant Ivan Semenovich Kuznetsov, Party Organizer, 391 Battery according to Order 0920 of the 39 Army dated 23.12.44.

Unit Order
SECRET
Order 36/N of the 72 Pavlovsk Red Banner Rifle Division, Leningrad Front dated 8 April 1944
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s combat missions in battle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and courage, I award the following decorations:
Order of Glory III Class
8. Private Ivan Semenovich Kuznetsov – Mortar Gunner, 133 Rifle Regiment
Signed Division Commander, 72 Pavlovsk Red Banner Rifle Division, General-Major Yastrebov and Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Terekhov