Red Star,3786592,Command Post Head,799th Radio Technical Centre,Afghanistan 1987

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Award Sheet


1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Prokopenko, Aleksandr Sergeevich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Personal Number L-858824 (by order Commander Carpathian Military District #0402 dated 28.10.83)
3. Duty position: Command Point Chief, 799 Independent Radio Technical Center, 254 Independent Special Purpose Radio Technical Regiment by 40 Combined Arms Army Commander 0127 dated 23 April 1986
4. Born: 1951 at Rostov-on-Don
5. Nationality: Russian
6. Party membership: since January 1978
7. Previous combat: since September 1984 in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
8. Wounds or shell-shock: Serious burns class 3-a and 3-b received in Anava (Parvan Province)
9. In Soviet Armed Forces: since 30 October 1973 inducted by Kirov Regional Military Commissariat in Rostov-on-Don
10. Previous awards: n/a
11. Home of record: Rostov-on-Don, Pushkin St. 192/198, Apt. 35


Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan since September 1984. He presents himself as an excellently trained, motivated, and valorous officer. While under a massive enemy shelling on 30.12.84, he was the first to extinguish a fire at an explosives warehouse caused by a falling phosphorous rocket shell. Due to Senior Lieutenant A.S. Prokopenko’s decisive action while continuing to extinguish the fire despite having received Category 3-a and 3-b burns, an explosion was averted. He spent six months in hospital convalescence. After recuperation he participated in 27 combined arms operations in eight provinces of Afghanistan as the commander of a maneuver reconnaissance group. As a result of Senior Lieutenant A.S. Prokopenko’s reconnaissance and 85 discoveries, as many as 200 rebels, 90 weapons, and 16 radio stations were destroyed, three ammunition caches were captured, and five rebel caravan routes were discovered.
Signed Commander, 254 Independent Special Purpose Radio Technical Regiment, Colonel Popidchenko on 30 October 1986
Endorsed 40 Special Army Deputy of Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Colonel Kokorin on 20 November 1986
Reviewed positively by Army Military Committee on Protocol 066 dated 25.11.1986, signed 40 Combined Arms Army Acting Commander General-Major Yu. Grekov on 30.11.1986