ORS 110208 Stalingrad

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Award Card

Order Booklet 207269

1. Last name: Soseliya
2. Name and patrionymic: Shota Moiseevich
3. Rank: Guards Major
4. Gender: Male
5. Birthyear: 1922
6. Birthplace: Makharadzevskii Region, village of Mtistiri, GSSR
7. Party membership: since 1942 
8. Education: mid-level; Tbilisi Artillery Academy 1941 
9. Nationality: Georgian
10. Time in Red Army: 1939 
11. Place of service at awarding: Battery Commander – 214 Artillery Regiment, 38 Rifle Division
12. Place of work at present: Pensioner – temporarily unemployed
13. Home address: Tbilisi, 9 January St. #8
14. Awards:

Designation Serial Number Awarding Organization

Red Star 110.208 38 Rifle Division dated 8.2.43
Red Banner 84.144 57 Army dated 24.4.44
Patriotic War II 102.667 28 Army dated 14.10.1943
Patriotic War II 102.630 28 Army dated 16.11.1943
Alexander Nevsky 41.564 57 Army dated 20.9.1944
Defense of Stalingrad Medal USSR Edict
Victory over Germany Medal USSR Edict

Verified by Acting (?) Regional Military Commissariat named after Molotov, Tbilisi, Senior Lieutenant Berdiev on 2.10.1946

[Tommy]

Award Sheet

1. Last name, name, and patrionymic: Soseliya, Shoto [trans: sic] *******ich
2. Rank: Senior Lieutenant
3. Duty position: Commander – 1 Battery, 214 Battalion 

Recommendation for the Order of the Red Banner [trans: last word overwritten “Star”]

4. Born: 1922
5. Nationality: Georgian
6. In Red Army: 1939
7. Party membership: since 1939
8. Previous combat: 4.1942
9. Wounds or shell-shock: n/a
10. Previous awards: n/a
11. Inducted by: Tbilisi Regional Military Commissariat, Zaporozhe Oblast 
12. Home of record: [trans: entry intentionally obscured] 

Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In fighting for St. Voroponovo on 22.1.1943 near Stalingrad, 1 Battery Commander Senior Lieutenant Soseliya fired on direct lay and destroyed a bunker, two self-propelled guns, and as many as 100 enemy infantry, thus allowing our infantry to advance. Pursuing a retreating enemy two kilometers north of Voroponovo Station, Comrade Soseliya advanced his battery ahead of the infantry and firing on direct lay destroyed two vehicles, one cannon, and as many as 50 Hitlerites.
Comrade Soseliya’s determination denied the enemy the opportunity to set up a defense on their subsequent defensive line and our infantry advanced freely. 

Signed Commander, 214 Artillery Regiment, Major Nikolaev

Recommended downgrade to the Order of the Red Star, Deputy Commander, NAD-38, Major Borisov

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Short description of personal combat feat or accomplishment

In fighting for St. Voroponovo on 22.1.1943 near Stalingrad, 1 Battery Commander Senior Lieutenant Soseliya fired on direct lay and destroyed a bunker, two self-propelled guns, and as many as 100 enemy infantry, thus allowing our infantry to advance.
Pursuing a retreating enemy two kilometers north of Voroponovo Station, Comrade Soseliya advanced his battery ahead of the infantry and firing on direct lay destroyed two vehicles, one cannon, and as many. as 50 Hitlerites.
Comrade Soseliya’s determination denied the enemy the opportunity to set up a defense on their subsequent defensive line and our infantry advanced freely. 

Lotta per St. Voroponovo il 22.1.1943 a Stalingrado, la 1a batteria comandandata dal Luogotenente Soseliya, dirige i colpi di arma da fuoco e distrugge un bunker, due semoventi, e più di 100 fanti nemici, permettendo così alla nostra fanteria di avanzare.
Insegue la ritirata del nemico e a due chilometri a nord della stazione di Voroponovo, il compagno Soseliya avanzato la sua batteria davanti alla fanteria, e facendo fuoco diretto, distrugge due veicoli, un cannone, e 50 Hitleriani.
La determinazione del Compagno Soseliya ha negato al nemico la possibilità di impostare una difesa sulla loro successiva linea di difesa e la nostra fanteria è avanzata liberamente.

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This one too seems to me a combat operation worthy of something more than a Red Star..