For Combat Merits,0142133,Commander,413th Separate Telegraph Construction Company

[Norm Braddock]

Award Card
Order Booklet VR B-595086
1. Last name: Savich-Zablotskii
2. Name and Patrionymic: Boris Konstantinovich
3. Rank: Captain
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1916
6. Birthplace: Kharkov
7. Party Membership: candidate member
8. Education: upper
9. Nationality: Russian
10. Service in the Red Army: 6.1941-12.1945
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: Signals Detachment, 32 Army – Deputy Chief of Army Communications
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Chief Energy Manager – Teplopribor Factory
13. Home of Record: Kharkov, Chernyshevskaya #66
14. Awards
Award Serial Number Awarder
Patriotic War II 174.369 (?) Front dated 10.3.45
Patriotic War I 78.197 1 Far Eastern Front dated 9.9.45
Combat Service Medal 142.133 Karelian Front, 32 Army dated 30.12.42
Verified 4 August 1947 by Kaganovich Regional Military Commissariat Chief of Personnel Major Postalak







Unit Award Listing

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32 Army Order #0619 dated 30 December 1942
On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet USSR, I award the following decorations for exemplary accomplishment of the Command’s orders in the struggle against the German invaders and for displaying valor and courage:
Combat Service Medal
22. Senior Lieutenant Boris Konstantinovich Savich-Zablotskii - Commander of the 413 Independent Telegraph Construction Company
Signed by the 32 Army Commander Hero of the Soviet Union General-Lieutenant Goredenko, Member of the Military Council Colonel Ushakov, and Army Chief of Staff General-Major Bragin














Award Citation
Award Sheet
1. Last name, name, patrionymic: Savich-Zablotskii, Boris Konstantinovich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Commander – 413 Independent Telegraph Construction Company

Application for the Combat Service Medal
4. Born: 1916
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member since 1939
7. Combat participation: since 14.7.1941
8. Wounds or shell-shock:
9. In Red Army: since 7.7.41
10. Inducted by: Kharkov, Kagaovich Regional Military Commissariat
11. Previous awards: n/a
12. Home of record: Kharkov, Chernyshevskii #66, Apt. 1 – Family in
Aktyubinsk, Koshbinskii NKVD, Hydrosteel Block
Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment
Senior Lieutenant Savich-Zablotskii has been on the Karelian Front since September 1941.
In October 1941 he and his platoon successfully accomplished their mission in a timely manner by building 20km of telegraph-telephone wire along the Nadvoitsy-Sumpasad line for which they received the Karelian Front commander’s appreciation.
During combat near the Medvezhya Station-Masselskaya Hill line Senior Lieutenant Zablotskii’s platoon repaired breaks along 350 km of line.
From 22 November 1941 to 3 December 1941 Savich-Zablotskii’s platoon supported the telegraph-telephone line from the Maselskii command position to the 263 Rifle Division in heavy fighting near Maselskaya Station. They restored telephone-telegraph communications broken by enemy artillery fire and provided uninterrupted communications for troop control.
During the enemy’s occupation of Maselskaya Station, Zablotskii’s platoon was encircled, however Zablotskii organized his personnel and escaped from the ring, at the same time also saving their construction equipment.
From December 1941 through March 1942 Savich-Zablotskii’s platoon built and hung nine cable lines near Uros lake sluice, Aitalamba, and near Maselskaya Station, in total building and hanging more than 100km of wire.
For honest, good work he received two congratulatory certificates from the Maselskii Group Chief of Communications.
From March 1942 through September 1942 the 535 Independent Signals Battalion Exploitation Company commanded by Senior Lieutenant Savich-Zablotskii supplied exploitation services to the telephone-telegraph line from Army HQ thirty-two kilometers to the 289 and 37 Division HQs. The line maintained its integrity and communications to these sectors was excellent.
At the present Senior Lieutenant Savich-Zablotskii commands the 413 Independent Telegraph Construction Company which accomplishes its missions in a rapid and quality manner.
He is deserving of the Combat Service Medal.
Signed Deputy Chief of Communications for Colonel Nikiforov on 20 December 1942
Awarded the Combat Service Medal by 32 Army Order 0619 dated 30 December 1942, verified by 32 Army Chief of Personnel Quartermaster 2nd Class Akulinin on 3 January 1943

[UQWozza]

Nice award on an interesting front Norm :thumbsup. Is this a complete type 1 medal (i.e. not on a pentagonal suspension)?

Simon

[Norm Braddock]

Originally Posted by UQWozza

Nice award on an interesting front Norm :thumbsup. Is this a complete type 1 medal (i.e. not on a pentagonal suspension)?

Simon

G'Day Simon, 5 sided and solder present on the ring.

For your review.

Cheers,

N

[UQWozza]

Nice one Norm - looks to me like an honest combat-worn example :thumbsup

Not surprised it is a bit dinged up.

Simon

[CtahhR]

Here is the original citation. Also awarded an OPW2'85.