Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Countries

Lot 5222    Session 19 (4.30pm Friday 25 November)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Countries

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RUSSIA, USSR, Group of Thirteen: Labour Veteran Medal; Medal for Defence of Leningrad; Medal for the Defence of the Caucasus; Medal for Assiduous Labour Effort in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945; Medal for the Capture of Koenigsberg; Medal for the Capture of Berlin; Medal in Honour of the Centenary of Lenin's Birth; 20th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 30th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 40th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 60th Anniversary of the USSR Armed Forces; 70th Anniversary of the USSR Armed Forces; Medal of Zhukov. Mostly extremely fine.

Together with Order booklet no.A060235 which shows photo of recipient, Tamara Pavlovna Kuznetsova, and lists awards of,
Red Star serial no.222461 awarded by 61 Rifle Division - 15.6.43.
Red Star serial no.929777 awarded by Army - 18.10.44.
Patriotic War II serial no.569268 awarded by Army - 14.6.45

Also booklets for twelve of the medals listed above which include medal image and details as well as Tamara Pavlovna Kuznetsova's name. The third listed medal has a document with it instead of a booklet.

Medical Service Reserve Senior Lieutenant Tamara Pavlovna Kuznetsova, born 1919 at Voronezh Oblast, Russia; education - upper level; Party Membership from 1943; served in the Red Army Sep1941 - Jun1946; listed as MIA 22Jul1942 however no other details of her escape or repatriation; at one stage assigned as Medical Platoon Leader to 3 Independent Rifle Battalion, 76 Independent Rifle Brigade, but no dates available; Disch.31Jul1950 near Minsk.

The official citation sheet for her first award, Order of the Red Star, lists her as Military Doctor 3rd Class serving as Junior Doctor, Medical Company, 66 Rifle Regt and she participated in the Liberation of Kuban 20Jan - 01Jun1943. Her citation for the award is as follows.

'Beginning 20.1.43 during the liberation of the Kuban region near Novo-Dmitrievskaya, Severskaya, Ilskaya, Golubovskii Farm, and 'Square' Heights, near Sheptalskii Farm, she displayed bravery and courage, disregarding her personal safety while working under heavy enemy machinegun and mortar fire, working as a regimental doctor she rendered medical aid to wounded soldiers and commanders. She personally applied 272 field dressings to heavily traumatized victims. During combat for the 'Square' heights from 4-15 April 1943, she and the divisional doctor together conducted 25 difficult operations on wounded soldiers and commanders, saving their lives. As a doctor she disregards fatigue and is concerned with saving Red Army soldiers' lives; she employs all her knowledge and abilities to healing soldiers and commanders and returning them to duty.'

The official citation sheet for her second award, Order of the Patriotic War First Class (endorsed for award of Order of the Red Star [2nd occasion]), lists her as Military Doctor 3rd Class serving as Medical Company Commander, 66 Rifle Regt and she participated in combat beginning 22Jun1941 on the Southern Front, 01Feb1943 on the North Caucasus Front, 01Sep1943 (4) Ukranian Front and since 20Jun1944 on (1) Belorussian Front. Her citation for the award in part reads as follows.

'Since the first days of the Patriotic War, she has bravely fought for the liberation of our Motherland from the German bandits. She has fought from the Caucasus mountains through the entire Kuban, Ukraine, Belorussia, and now bravely fights to liberate Poland. She is a participant of fighting to eradicate the Nikopol bridgehead and the Dnepr forces river crossing....... During the fighting all wounded were evacuated from the battlefield in a timely manner, thanks to her succinct leadership the lives of many Red Army soldiers were saved.'

The official citation sheet for her third award, Order of the Patriotic War Second Class, lists her as Senior Lieutenant, Medical Company, 66 Rifle Regt and she participated in combat beginning 22Jun1941 on the Southern, North Caucasus, (3) & (4) Ukranian, (1) & (3) Belorussian, and (1) Ukranian Fronts. Her citation for the award in part reads as follows.

'Comrade Kuznetsova has defended our Motherland since the first days of the Patriotic War, in fighting she has traced a glorious trail from the Caucasus mountains to the city of Berlin......In fighting to eradicate the surrounded pocket near Hennikendof on 2.5.45 when Germans were trying to break out of encirclement, they attacked our rear-echelon units, however in resulting fighting the medical company killed 14 German soldiers and captured 42 German soldiers and officers.'

Together with full details of citations and other information.