BM 105474 - Stalingrado - Cool Story!

[Tommy]

Here is Nikolai Mogilev, i believe in 1938? Does that tie up with the Uniform?

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AWARD CARD

Order booklet 458555

1. Last Name Mogilev
2. Name and Patronymic Nikolaj Fedotovich
3. Military Rank Captain
4. Sex Male
5. Year of Birth 1912
6. Place of Birth Kursk Region, L’gov District
7. Party Membership Member of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)) since 1944
8. Education 7 grades
9. Nationality Russian
10. In the Red Army since 1934 till 2.1946
11. Place of service (name of the unit) and duty position at time of awarding 399th Rifle Division, 3rd Tank Army, Central Front – Commander of the 490th Separate Antiaircraft Artillery Battery
12. Place of service and duty position at current time Krolevez City, Sumy Region – Unemployed
13. Home address of the awardee Krolevez City, Ukrainian Alley № 3
14. Record of previous awards

Name of Orders, Medals Serial Number Numbers of Documents Awarder
“ Medal For Bravery ” 105474 Temp. Certif. 247127 Order of the Troops of the 62nd Army № 23/N of 25 September 1942

Signature of the awardee (signed) Mogilev
Krolevez Military District Commissariat

Correctness of the data and signature of awardee attested by:
Major of Administrative Services (signed)

15 July 1946 / Kuznezov /



Here is the write up for his BM - a cool Stalingrad awarding!

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AWARD LIST

Last Name, name and patronymic Mogilev Nikolaj Fedotovich
Rank Lieutenant
Position, unit Commander of 490th Separate Antiaircraft Battery, 399th Rifle Division
Is recommended for the Order of the “ Red Star ”
1. Year of birth 1912
2. Nationality Russian
3. In the Red Army since 1934
4. Party membership Member of the VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)) since 1935
5. Participation in battles (where and when) Participant of the Patriotic War since 1.8.42
6. Wounds or contusions received during the Patriotic War Doesn’t have
7. Previous awards Was not awarded
8. Drafted by what district military commissariat Moscow, Bauman District Military Commissariat
9. Permanent home address (of the prospective awardee or his/her family) Chita City, Kononskaya Street, № 42


I. Brief description of personal feat or merits

For the period of the battles he demonstrated himself as a strong-willed commander devoted to the Lenin-Stalin Party and the Socialist Motherland. On 3.9.42 in an exceptionally difficult moment for the command post of the division headquarters, Lieutenant Mogilev, risking his life, fired at the advancing enemy’s infantry from an antiaircraft gun and slowed down its further advance towards the command post.
When on 7.9.42 the enemy’s infantry broke through towards the command post of the division headquarters and was at a distance of 200 meters from it, Lieutenant Mogilev using an antiaircraft gun on land targets, fired against German machine gunners and infantry and did not let anyone pass through the command post despite the enemy’s strong artillery and mortar fire on the antiaircraft guns and the men of Lieutenant Mogilev.
For the bravery and mastery in combat, Lieutenant Mogilev deserves governmental awards, order of the “ Red Star ”.

Commander of the 399th Rifle Division
Colonel (Signature) / Travnikov /

Commissar of the 399th Rifle Division
Senior Battalion Commander (Signature) / Doroshenko /

Headquarters’ Chief of the 399th Rifle Division
Lieutenant Colonel (Signature) / Krukov /
20.9.42




An interesting fact about this award is that Chuikov signed the Prikaz

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Here is his service record:

1. Family name, name and patrionymic: Mogilev, Nikolai Fedotovocich
2. Place and date of Birth: 2nd May 1912, Village of Borisovska, Kursk Oblast
3. Nationality: Russian
4. Knowledge of foreign languages and profficiency in them: None
5. Social Standing and Origin: Labourer, from peasent stock
6. Party Membersip:
a. Party Member since 1946. Booklet No.7715364
7. Education
a. General: 7 Classes graduated in 1928
b. Military: Junior Lieutenant Course in the 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment in Moscow in 1938
c. Political: None
8. Service at the front: Stalingrad Front from 2.1942 to 4.1943, central front from 4.1943 to 9.1943
9. Wounds and contusions: Lightly wounded 5.9.42
10. Awards: Medal for bravery in 1942, Medal for comat service in 1945, medal for victory over Germany
11. Has he been imprisioned or surrounded: No time
12. Prip?
13. Where inducted: Krosivetsky Region Military Commissariat, Summy Oblast
14. Promtion

Rank Whose order Decree No. Date
Junior Lieutenant NKO 01449 5.1938
Lieutenant NKO 04558 9.10.1940
Senior Lieutenant 3rd Tank Army 0148 24.10.1942
Captain Western Front 0156 11.8.1945

15. Compossed in the Reserve Command
16. Branch: Anti-aircraft Artillery. Military Speciality No.32
17. State of Health: Healthy
18. Conscription Dues: N/A
19. Place of Service and Position: ????
20. Marital Status and address: Married. Wife, Anna Romanovna Mogileva born 1915. Married 1941. City of Kromevets, No.7 Kirov Street
21. Special Remarks: Military ID No. YU.44079
22. Positions

Position Name Name of Institution Whose Decree Decree No. Date

Student 11.1934 – 11.1936 School of the 130th Rifle Regiment, 44th Rifle Division
Deputy Komander of VZV 11.1936 – 11.1937 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment MVD
Student 11.1937 – 5.1938 Junior Lieutenant course – Anti-Aircraft Regiment
Platoon Commander 5.1938 – 4.1939 1st Anti-Aircraft Regiment MVD
Platoon Commander 4.1939 – 5.1940 191 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
Platoon Commander 5.1940 – 5.1941 6th Independent Artillery Division
Battery Commander 5.1941 – 2.1942 750th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
Battery Commander 2.1942 – 4.1943 490th Independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, Stalingrad Front
Battery Commander 4.1943 – 9.1943 1286th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, 16th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division
??? 9.1943 – 1.1944 72 N1025
In the Reserves 1.1944 – 6.1945 Reserve Commander of Artillery
Deputy Division Commander 6.1946 – 11.1945 1929 Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment
Listener?? 11.1945 – 6.1946 ???

[Tommy]

And here he is Post War

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Here is the BM. I have no idea if the suspenion is real or not, but it's the Medal that matters to me and that bit is good

[GC*]

That's one type of medal for which our filo gets excited

The story is indeed cool. I remember reading somewhere that Nazi Panzers moving towards Stalingrad were met with decisive fire coming from anti-aircraft guns firing at point blank, operated by female personnel.. Their heroism did naturally not prevent the Wehrmacht onslaught from spreaing to the towns, but as I recall, Nazi panzer crews were very impressed.

[filo]

That's one type of medal for which our filo gets excited

Tom, the nut is of silver or nickel silver (Alpaca)?

[Tommy]

I would guess Silver... thats what it feels like, but i couldn't be sure...

[ruiz]

Very good history and medal, of course.