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Soviet Russian star order red Medal Banner Caucasus GPW Courage NKVD (1926) For Sale

Soviet Russian star order red Medal Banner Caucasus GPW Courage NKVD (1926)
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FOR SALESet for Ivkin Lavrentiy Major NKVD2 orders (red star and GPW) with documents15 medals with documents1 badge with documentMajor Lavrentiy IvkinBorn 1915Commander, Machine-Gun Company, NKVD Baltic DistrictServed in the NKVD since 1941Participated in combat operations as part of the NKVD from October 8, 1944, to March 15, 1945Fought as part of the 55th Regiment, serving as a company commanderThe machine-gun company was tasked with preventing the Germans from reaching a river crossingThe company was ferried across to the opposite bank and established defensive positionsThe Germans opened heavy fire and launched an assault against the companyThe attacks were repelledDuring a mortar bombardment, Ivkin sustained a wound to his legThe 5th Rifle Division of the Internal Troops of the NKVD of the USSR was a military unit of the NKVD of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War .From February 1, 1942 to April 1, 1943, in the Leningrad Region, units and subunits of the division detained 86 agents and saboteurs of German intelligence , 242 traitors , and 42 bandits . Sniper teams of the regiments on the front lines of the Northwestern and Volkhov Fronts destroyed 9,350 Nazis, machine gun and artillery units of the regiments scattered and partially destroyed 541 Nazis, destroyed 14 dugouts , 7 machine guns, 1 gun, 4 field kitchens , suppressed the fire of 22 pillboxes and 18 machine gun emplacements , and the division's sappers in sectors of the Northwestern Front, Leningrad Front, and Volkhov Front defused 28,446 mines and land mines . From April 10 to June 10, 1943, the division's sappers removed and neutralized 21,549 enemy mines. From January 1, 1943, to April 1, 1944, the division's rear guard units and subunits of the Northwestern, Volkhov, Leningrad, 2nd Baltic, and 3rd Baltic Fronts detained 63 traitors to the Motherland, 52 spies and saboteurs, and 25 enemy stooges and collaborators.
In May 1942, two platoons of the 138th Regiment of the division, while evacuating civilians, were surrounded in the area of ​​the Rogavka station and were almost completely destroyed.
As of April 10, 1944, the division was stationed at: Proletary settlement, 138th Rifle Regiment - Luga ; 143rd Rifle Regiment and 261st Rifle Regiment - Volyshovo state farm ; 260th Rifle Regiment - Staraya Russa .
From October 20, 1944, the division was stationed in Estonia and Latvia . Its primary mission was to combat the anti-Soviet partisan movement in these republics.
As of November 1, 1944, the division was stationed: headquarters and the 36th Motorized Rifle Regiment - Riga ; the 138th Rifle Regiment - Tartu ; the 143rd Rifle Regiment - Valmiera ; the 260th Rifle Regiment - Tallinn ; the 261st Rifle Regiment - Šiauliai ; a separate medical company - Pskov .
From January 1 to January 15, 1945, operational search groups of the 260th Regiment detained 31 German intelligence agents on the territory of the Estonian SSR.Please let me know if you have any questions.

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