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Auction: 21002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 490

A Soviet Order of Glory awarded to Guards Private First Class A. K. Nevesyloy, Sapper Platoon, 170th Guards Rifle Regiment, 47th Guards Lower Dnieper Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division, for his excellent mine laying under fire

Russia, U.S.S.R., Order of Glory, 3rd Class, Type 2, Variation 1, reverse officially numbered '209963', very fine

Afanasy Kirillovich Nevesyoly was born in 1904 and joined the Red Army in February 1944, a resident of the village of Novo-Maryanovka, Apostolovo Raion, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast. He served on the front line from 10 March 1944. It is quite possible that Nevesyoly was one of many Ukrainians and other nationalities swept up by the advancing Red Army as they moved west towards Germany.

This Order of Glory 3rd Class, as a 1944 entrant of the Red Army appears to have been Nevesyoly's sole award, the recommendation stating:

'On August 12, 1944, comrade Nevesyoly, who was serving in a Sapper platoon, mined the area lying ahead under heavy enemy machine-gun and mortar fire. All in all he laid 680 anti-tank mines. Prior to our units' offensive he blocked off the minefields from our side and despite heavy enemy fire created three passages through the minefields for our units. On August 22nd 1944, under enemy fire, he delivered mines to the front line, and with his platoon he mined a sector near the village of Lezheketse, laying 345 anti-tank mines. On September 17, 1944 under heavy enemy rifle and machine-gun fire, he mined a sector near the village of Selvakuvka, laying 120 anti-tank mines. Comrade Nevesyoly deserves the Order of Glory 3rd Class.

Signed by the Commander of the 140th Guards Rifle Regiment, Guard Lieutenant Colonel Kabitsin.'

It is unknown what came of Nevesyoly but given the nature of his work, it is quite possible that he failed to see the conclusion of the Second World War; sold together with copied citations and research, including English translations.

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