Description
Soviet Order of the Red Banner #223030
Awarded to Senior Sgt. Grigory Aksentyevich Arion (Григорий Аксентьевич Арион)
Commander of a 76mm Pak ZIS-3
For personally destroying 5 machine guns, 2 mortars and 2 anti-tank guns and eliminating 6 enemy tanks with his crew near Warsaw. Arion was recommanded for the title ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’
Made of solid silver and enamels. Measures 46.16 mm in height, 37.53 mm in width and it weighs 25.9 gram without its suspension. The serial number and curved mint mark are located at the 6 o’clock position of its reverse.
This Order of the Red Banner is in excellent, above average condition. The details are crisp and the enamel is problem free apart from some small contact marks and a superficial chip at the 9 o’clock ray of the centre red star. A fair amount of the gold plating is still present and the connection ring has not been cut. The order comes with its time period double layer steel suspension.
Brief, concrete description of his feat of arms or achievements:
“Senior sergeant Arion, commander of a 76mm cannon, made two paths into minefields and wire fences with direct fire of his gun during the breakthrough of the enemy’s deeply echeloned defense in the area of the Kaiushin village in the Warsaw district.
Participating in the assault battalion of the 1281th rifle regiment, he was in place with his crew rolling the gun in the combat formations of the infantry of the assault battalion by hand and with the fire of his cannon ensured the successful advance of the infantry.
In one place with the infantry, he crossed the Vistula River and was the first to open fire on the enemy. He destroyed 5 machine guns, 2 mortars and 2 anti-tank guns of the enemy with the fire of his cannon on the western bank of the Vistula river.
The crew of senior sergeant Arion has six damaged and burned down enemy tanks on its account.
Worthy of the governmental award of “Hero of the Soviet Union”.”
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