Red Banner,546670,2nd Battery Commander,564th Missle Regiment,Egypt 1970

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Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Andreyevich Lyashchenko, Commander of the 2nd Battery, 1st Battalion, 564th Surface-to-Air Missile Regiment

Recommendation:

Award sheet

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Lyashchenko, Nikolai Andreyevich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant
3. Position and unit: Commander of the 2nd Battery, 1st Battalion, 564th Surface-to-Air Missile Regiment
Nominated for: Order of the Red Banner
4. Year of birth: 1944
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party affiliation: Member of the Communist Party
7. Participation in combat actions for the defense of the USSR and the Patriotic War (where and when): No
8. Wounds and contusions received during the Patriotic War: No
9. Since when in the Soviet Armed Forces: 1962
10. Drafted by which military commissariat: Zvenigorodka Raion, Cherkassy Oblast
11. Which awards received previously (for which merits):
12. Permanent home address of the prospective awardee and the address of his family:

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

On August 3, 1970 the 1st Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion of the 564th Surface-to-Air Missile Regiment took part in a four-hour battle during an enemy air raid. During the battle the battalion shot down one aircraft, while another one was damaged.

During the course of the battle, Senior Lieutenant N.A. Lyashchenko displayed bravery and high organizational skills. He personally exercised leadership over the crews of his self-propelled anti-aircraft vehicle battery.

Conclusion: He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Original signed by Colonel General Katyshkin

Correct: Temporary chief of the Personnel Department of the National Air Defense Forces
Colonel [signed] /K. Khodarev/
August 10, 1970

(Thanks Alexei and Auke!)

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From John R. Carter, Airpower and the Cult of the Offensive (Maxwell AFB: Air University Press, 1998), pp. 58 et seq. (emphasis added)

Then, in March and April 1970, the Soviet Union responded to the IAF’s deep attacks by rebuilding Egyptian defenses. The Soviets began delivery of the SA-3 SAM, which had a much better low-altitude capability than the SA-2, and the improved MiG-21MF Fishbed J flown by Soviet pilots. By the end of June, the Soviets had 120 MiG-21s and 55 SA-3 batteries manned by Soviet troops stationed in Egypt. Israel, choosing to avoid conflict with a superpower, restricted its attacks to the Suez Canal region. The Egyptians and their Soviet allies began pushing the defensive belt of SAMs and AAA towards the Suez Canal. As the defenses strengthened, IAF losses mounted. A pivotal period began on 1 July, with estimates of IAF losses to the Egyptian integrated defense system ranging between seven and 20 aircraft during the subsequent five weeks until the cease-fire on 7 August.

By the end of the War of Attrition, the IAF had flown against all of the defensive systems it would face three years later in the Yom Kippur War. Even the SA-6 made an appearance just before the cease-fire, shooting down an F-4 on 3 August 1970. The combination of radar-guided SAMs, manportable SA-7s, and radar-directed AAA such as the ZSU-23-4 made the airspace over the Suez Canal especially deadly for attacking aircraft, as indicated by the IAF’s sharply increased loss rate during the last weeks of the conflict.

http://aupress.au.af.mil/digital/pdf..._offensive.pdf

This would have been, I am told, the first successful combat use of the SA-6.

[PaulR]

I am really loving these post WW2 conflict decorations! I have yet to find one of these! Congrats. :D

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Here he is.

More to follow . . . watch this space . . . .

(Thanks again, Auke!)

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His service record. Wish there was a key to all those mystery numbered units!

Service record card

Service nr.: Zh-051131

1. Last name, first name and patronymic: Lyashenko, Nikolai Andreyevich
2. Day, month and year of birth: December 12, 1944
3. Place of birth (according to the current administrative division): Village of Tarasovka, Zvenigorodka Raion, Cherkassy Oblast
4. Nationality: Ukrainian
5. Party affiliation
Member of the Communist Party since: 1966
Party membership booklet nr.: 05795106
Candidate member of the Communist Party since: 1965
Candidate membership booklet nr.: 6583239
Member of the Komsomol since: 1960
Not a party member:
6. Education (note the name of the educational institution, number of classes or courses attended, and date of graduation):
General, political, and special civil: 10 classes at Tarasovka High School, Zvenigorodka Raion, Cherkassy Oblast in 1961
Military, including military-political: Graduated from Baltic Military Technical School of the Air Defense Forces in June 1965 and finished the 5-month Central Officer Course of the Surface-to-Air Missile Forces, Air Defense Forces on May 8, 1976
7. Knowledge of foreign languages and languages of the Soviet peoples: Reads and writes English with a dictionary

8. Conferment of military ranks By whose order Order nr. Order date
Lieutenant Ministry of Defense 01015 Jul 26, 1965
Senior Lieutenant 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 0632 Dec 30, 1968
Captain Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces 0121 Feb 17, 1971
Major Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces 0109 Feb 20, 1976
Demoted to Captain Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces 0105 Feb 11, 1981
Reinstated in the rank of Major Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces 0820 Aug 21, 1985

9. Service during wartime and other combat actions for the defense of the Soviet Union:
10. Family situation: Bachelor

11. When and by which military commissariat drafted into the Armed Forces: Entered military service on September 1, 1962 through the Military Commissariat of the Zvenigorodka Raion, Cherkassy Oblast
12. Active military service in the Soviet Army or Navy or with the KGB Troops or union republics’ Ministries for the Preservation of the Public Order:

Position and unit, institution, formation, army, group of forces, front, district, fleet, or flotilla By whose order Order nr. Day, month and year
Student at Baltic Military Technical School of the Air Defense Forces School 05 Sep 1, 1962
Graduated from Baltic Military Technical School of the Air Defense Forces with a specialization in operating and repairing radio-engineering equipment and assigned to the disposal of the commander of military unit nr. 09436 Ministry of Defense 01015 Jul 26, 1965
Chief of the Personnel Section
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Kurakin/
Launch platoon leader in the 2nd Battery, Cadre Battalion, military unit nr. 96423 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 0210 Sep 17, 1965
Launch platoon leader and senior officer of the 2nd Battery, military unit nr. 96423 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 0266 Jul 17, 1968
Commander of the 2nd Battery, military unit nr. 96423 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 046 Feb 6, 1969
Commander of a Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion, military unit nr. 96423 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 0229 Dec 17, 1975
Commander of a Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion, military unit nr. 03214 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 037 Mar 6, 1978
Chief of staff and deputy commander of a Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion, military unit nr. 03214 6th Independent Army of the Air Defense Forces 0195 Nov 21, 1979
With his unit transfered to the 18th Air Defense Corps, Leningrad Military District VKh-22001S 1980
With his unit transfered to the 54th Air Defense Corps VKh-22738S 1986
By Order of the Air Defense Forces nr. 0391 of April 27, 1990 transfered to the reserve in accordance with Article 59b, with the right to wear a military uniform. Registered at the Military Commissariat of the Lomonosov Raion, Leningrad Oblast. Discharged because of the downsizing of the Soviet Armed Forces.

June 31, 1990

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Much story hiding here.

Thanks again, Auke!