Description
Group of Soviet Medals for Bravery with document
Awarded to Guards Sergeant Grigory Alexandrovich Abramov (Григорий Александрович Абрамов)
For personally delivering food under intensive enemy artillery fire to the fighting men on the front
Medal for Bravery #816481
Made of solid silver. Measures 42.22 mm in height including its eyelet, 37.50 mm in width and it weighs 27.4 gram without its suspension. The medal is in good condition with its details perfectly visible on even the higher laying parts. The red lacquer filling the lettering is gone. Its connection ring has not been cut and its old steel suspension and ribbon are time period to the medal.
Medals for 20, 30 and 40 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic
All in a nice, average condition with original ribbons and suspensions.
Award booklets
The medal booklet mentions the awardee and this bravery medal. A picture of Abramov is glued onto the first page. The documents for the jubilee booklets mention the awardee as well. Please not that the 20 year Victory medal was awarded with a 10 year(!) delay.
Citation for Medal for Bravery #816481
The driver of the 58 squadron Guards sergeant ABRAMOV Grigory Aleksandrovich is awarded for his effort during the combat for liberation of the Taman’ peninsula, in which he delivered in timely manner hot food to the personnel on the firing positions, often under intensive and methodical enemy artillery fire. When the food could not be delivered by truck, he accompanied the cook, and carried the thermo-boxes on his back to the fighting men.
Born 1912, none party member, Russian, drafted to Red Army by Kurmyshevo military commissariat.
The full translation of the research can be found below:
More information on Sgt Abramov can be found here
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