Description
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class #41917
Awarded to Female Guards Doctor Zinaida Georgievna Sosina (Зинаида Георгиевна Сосина)
For working day and night treating hundreds of patients and thus saving lives and preventing amputations
Made of solid silver, gold and enamels. The order weighs 26.6 grams without its screwplate and measures 44.98 mm in width and 46.06 mm in height. This early screwback order is produced by the Krasnokamsky Mint (KMD). The minimum known serial number for this variation is 34787 and the maximum is 71998. On the 7 o’clock position of its reverse a ‘1’ is stamped, often referred to as a ‘makers mark’.
In excellent condition with crisp details and an appealing medium patina on both sides. The red and white enamels are stunning and well preserved without chipping and repairs and show a few small contact marks only. The comes with a time period and well fitted silver screwplate and there have been no repairs.
Brief and specific description of the personal feat or merits:
Resident of the Surgical Department of the 37th Field Mobile Hospital of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps
During the period of military operations from September 20, 1943, to October 1, 1943, Comrade Sosina performed 482 dressings, applied 195 bandages, conducted 141 active wound treatments, and performed several surgeries, for example: for the wounded Guards Red Army soldier of the 52nd Guards Machine Gun Corps, Comrade Shipovsky I. P., who was brought in on September 20, 1943, in an extremely serious condition with a diagnosis of a through-and-through shrapnel wound to the left shoulder with bone tissue damage. Gas gangrene. Thanks to the timely intervention of the surgeon and the operation (wide lampas incisions), the intravenous administration of large doses of antitoxin serum, etc., the life of the wounded soldier was saved – the left upper limb was not amputated. He was evacuated from the hospital on the sixth day in a satisfactory condition. There are up to ten similar severe cases of injuries with complications of gas infection, and all of them recovered thanks to timely surgical intervention and special therapy. Comrade Sosina did not leave the surgery room day or night, providing assistance to the wounded, without taking a break.
She is a kind and compassionate comrade – she has great love for the wounded. For her work, Comrade Sosina is worthy of the government award, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class.
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