Red Star,0234280,KV Commander,5th Separate Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment

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Award card

Order booklet B 182067
1. Last name: Cherednichenko
2. Name and Patrionymic: Fedor Sidorovich
3. Rank: Guards Master Sergeant
4. Sex: Male
5. Birthyear: 1921
6. Birthplace: Stalin Oblast, village of Konstantinovka
7. Party Membership: since 1944
8. Education: elementary
9. Nationality: Ukrainian
10. Service in the Red Army: April, 1941 through May, 1946
11. Place of service and duty position at time of awarding: 5th Independent Tank Regiment, 8th Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front – Vehicle Commander
12. Place of service and duty position at the current time: Stalin Oblast, Konstantinovka, Ivano-Polskii, “Pokrovskii” Collective Farm – Worker
13. Home of Record: Stalin Oblast, Konstantinovka Region, Ivano-Polskii Selsovet
14. Awards

Award Serial Number Awarder
Bravery Medal 432.317 5th Guards Tank Regiment dated 30.07.43
Red Star 234.280 8th Guards Army, 5th Tank-Mech Bde dated 18.9.43
Victory over Germany Medal Edict dated 9.5.1945
Defense of Stalingrad Medal Edict dated 22.12.42

Verified by Konstantinovsk Municipal Military Commissariat Major Bondarenko on 18.11.46

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Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Cherednichenko, Fedor Sidorovich
2. Rank: Master Sergeant
3. Duty position: Gun Commander – KV Tank, 5th Independent Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment

Application for the Order of the Red Star

4. Birthyear: 1921
5. Nationality: Ukrainian
6. Party membership: Comsomol member
7. Participation in combat: Don and South Western Fronts
8. Wounds or shell-shock: seriously wounded once
9. Time in the Red Army: since August, 1942
10. Inducted by: Konstantinovka Regional Military Commissariat, Stalin Oblast
11. Earlier Awards: Bravery Medal in July 1943 by 5th IGBTR
12. Home of record: Stalin Oblast, Konstantinovka Ivanovo-Kolskii Selsovet, village of N-Paplovka. Father – Cherednichenko, Fedor Pavlovich

Short description of personal combat feat or service

In fighting for the village of Stepanovka on 3.09.43 while in the company commander’s tank crew, KV Tank Gunner Comrade Cherednichenko destroyed four anti-tank guns, six armored personnel carriers, five machinegun positions, six bunkers, and knocked out two heavy Tiger tanks, additionally killing as many as 70 soldiers and officers with his machinegun.

He is deserving of the Order of the Red Star.


Signed Commander, 5th Independent Guards Breakthrough Tank Regiment, Guards Lieutenant Colonel Gudz on 13th September, 1943

Endorsed Commander, Armored and Mechanized Forces, 8th Guards Army, Guards Lieutenant Colonel 15th September, 1943

Awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order 3/N of the 8 Guards Army Armored and Mechanized Forces dated 18.9.43. Verified by Deputy Chief of Staff, 8th Guards Army Armored and Mechanized Forces Guards Captain Kulikov

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Guards Master Sergeant Fedor Sidorovich Cherednichenko's Red Star. . . Note replaced enamel on one arm. . .