Red Star,0101187,Rail Repair,1st Separate Repair Battalion,Leningrad Front

[Bill Garvy]

Record card

Order booklet nr. A-801814

1. Last name: Bakin
2. First name and patronymic: Nikolai Aleksandrovich
3. Military rank: Career Master Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Year of birth: 1910
6. Place of birth: Village of Alyoshino, Lake Kubena Raion, Vologda Oblast
7. Party membership (since which year): Member of the Communist Party since 1943
8. Education: Secondary, unfinished
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Since which year in the Soviet Army: From 1932 through 1934, from 1941 through 1946, from 1948 through 1951, and since 1954
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and position occupied at the time of the award: First Sergeant of the Firing Range Crew at the Artillery Training Camp of the Byelorussian Military District
12. Current place of service and position: First sergeant of the firing range crew at the Artillery Training Camp of the Byelorussian Military District
13. Home address of the awardee: Kushchuba Station, Vologda Oblast

14. Record of all awards received:

Name of the order or medal/Serial number/Number of the document/Ground of award

Order of the Red Star 101187 Order booklet nr. A-801814 Order of the 9th Railroad Brigade nr. 014/N of February 20, 1943

Medal for Combat Merit Unnumbered Excerpt from Decree Decree of October 26, 1955

Signature of the awardee: [signed]

I confirm the correctness of the data and the signature of the awardee (position and signature):

Chief of staff of the Artillery Training Camp of the Byelorussian Military District
Lieutenant Colonel [signed] /Nechayev/
November 25, 1955

[Bill Garvy]

Order

Secret
Copy nr. 2

[Pencil: Leningrad Front; April 17, 1943]

Order

Of the 9th Independent Railroad Brigade

Active Army – Nr. 014 – February 20, 1943

On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, for the exemplary accomplishment of combat missions in the struggle with the German invaders and the valor and bravery displayed in the process, I award:

The Order of the Red Star to:

[…]

11. Sergeant Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bakin, Assistant Platoon Leader in the 1st Independent Repair Battalion

[…]

Commander of the 9th Independent Railroad Brigade
Major General of the Technical Forces [signed] /Matishev/

Chief of staff
Colonel [signed] /Khankov/

[Bill Garvy]

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Award sheet

Last name, first name and patronymic: Bakin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich
Military rank: Sergeant
Position and unit: Assistant platoon leader in the 1st Independent Railroad Repair Battalion, 9th Independent Railroad Brigade
Nominated for: Order of the Red Star
1. Year of birth: 1910
2. Nationality: Russian
3. Since when in the Red Army: Since June 23, 1941
4. Party affiliation: Candidate member of the Communist Party
5. Participation in combat (where and when): On the Karelian Isthmus in August 1941
6. Wounds and contusions received: No
7. Awards received previously (for which merits): None
8. Drafted by which military commissariat: Military Commissariat of the Chobsara Raion, Vologda Oblast
9. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his family): Village of Chernovitsy, Sergiyevsk Raion, Kuibyshev Oblast

Short, concrete description of his combat feat or merits:

Comrade Bakin is a highly disciplined, exemplary, and strong-willed commander, dedicated to our motherland, and he is considered an authority among the men of the battalion. During preceding tasks comrade Bakin inspired the soldiers assigned to him by personal example, both during the reparation and destruction of railroad lines. He systematically carried out his tasks ahead of time. His work on railroad tracks was of excellent quality. Carrying out his orders in difficult circumstances and under enemy artillery fire, comrade Bakin showed himself a fearless commander, efficiently and skillfully organizing the work.

During the construction of a railroad line at Shlisselburg Station, comrade Bakin organized the teams so skillfully and cleverly, giving orders to each and every soldier, that all units achieved a high productivity throughout their duties, exceding their set goals by 20-40 percent on a daily basis. During separate types of work, for example, during the cladding of railroad tracks, the teams exceeded the norms by 85 percent.

Comrade N.A. Bakin deserves the Order of the Red Star.

Battalion commander
Major [signed] /Chizhov/


He deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Brigade commander
Major General of the Technical Forces [signed] /Matishev/
February 8, 1943

[Bill Garvy]

Master Sergeant Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bakin's Order of the Red Star, #101187. My thanks to Auke for his invaluable assistance. Photographs/scans used with permission.