Red Star,0078946,Repair Technician,36th Tank Regiment

[Bill Garvy]

Award Card

Order Booklet A-230631

1. Last name: Teptsov
2. Name and patrionymic: Viktor Mikhailovich
3. Rank: Junior Military Technician
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1911
6. Birthplace: Engels
7. Party membership: 1944
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Time in Red Army: 12.1941-46
11. Place of service at awarding: Repair Technicain – 36th Tank Regiment
12. Place of work at present: Office Construction - Technician
13. Home address: M. Pirogovskaya, Bldg. 45, Apt. 2

14. Awards:
Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Red Star 78.946 3rd Shock Army dated 22.12.42

Verified by Frunze Regional Military Commissariat on 5th September, 1946

[Bill Garvy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Teptsov, Viktor Mikhailovich
2. Rank: Junior Military Technician
3. Duty position: Wheeled-Vehicle Technician – 36th Tank Regiment
Recommendation for the Order of the Red Star
4. Born: 1911
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: n/a
7. Previous combat: Patriotic War 1941-October 1942 in the 36th Tank Regiment
8. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
9. In Red Army: since 1941
10. Inducted by: Saratov Municipal Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured]

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

During the regiment’s fighting from 24th November through 17th December, 1942, Junior Military Technician Teptsov organized the repair of wheeled vehicles and supply of repair parts, fixing 25 wheeled vehicles.

Signed Commander, 36th Tank Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Kocherchin on 18th December, 1942

Endorsed Commander, 3rd Shock Army, General-Major Galitskii and Member of the Military Committee General-Major Litvinov

Will post scans of his Order of the Red Star soon. . .

[Bill Garvy]

Junior Military Technician Viktor Mikhailovich Teptsov's Order of the Red Star, #78946. My thanks to the Kabbage Man and desantnik for their invaluable assistance!