Soviet Medal for Bravery #3600579

Description

Soviet Medal for Bravery #3600579 Variation with a U-shaped eyelet 

Awarded to Private Grigory Ignatievich Gudym (Григорий Игнатьевич Гудым)

For carrying 17 wounded soldiers from the battlefield in Serbia and personally killing 3 enemy soldiers during a German counter-attack 

Made of solid silver. The medal for Bravery measures 37.22 mm in diameter and 42.52 mm in height (including the eyelet) and it weighs 29.2 grams without its suspension.

The medal is in excellent, well above average condition with its details crisp and a medium dark patina on both sides. Most (apx 90%) of the original red lacquer is still present and its connection ring has been cut. The brass suspension is time period to the medal.

Short excerpt of the research:

ГУДЫМ Григорий Игнатьевич 1911
GUDYM Grigory Ignatievich 1911
Private first class
Medical instructor of the 2nd rifle company, 1st rifle battalion, 32 rifle regiment, 19 rifle division

MIA on 1941.
Drafted 10.05.1944 in Odessa city (after the Odessa occupation was lifted).
Was POW in Dec1944 – May1945.

Citation:
GUDYM Grigory Ignatievich is bestowed for the engagement for the town Zajcar on 09-10 October 1944, in which he carried 17 wounded soldiers from the battlefield and personally killed 3 enemy soldiers during a German counter-attack.

Signed by the commander of 32 rifle regiment /GRISHIN/
27 October 1944

More information on Private Gudym can be found here

The medal is for action at the Serbian town Zajecar. The awards for Serbia are not very common, because the Red Army only went across a smaller portion of the country

Also included in the picture gallery are scans of the POW report and battle maps of Zajecar 

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