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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 569

A Stalingrad Kotluban Offensive Medal for Bravery awarded to Sailor F. I. Zinoviev, 1009 Mortar Regiment, 74 Mortar Brigade of the Coastal Defence of the Stalingrad Front, a former 120mm mortar unit serviceman, who was wounded in an offensive operation near Stalingrad on 21st September 1942, at a time when the Kotluban Offensives were taking place to the north of the city to reduce pressure on the Red Army troops

Russia, Soviet Union, Medal for Bravery, Type 2, reverse numbered '3272926', very fine

Fedor Ivanovich Zinoviev was born in Leninsk, Stalingrad Region in 1910, and completed three years of primary school education. He initially served in the Red Army from November 1932 until January 1935 and then joined again in November 1941 as a result of being drafted.

This Medal for Bravery would be his sole decoration, and was a late award received as a result of a decree given by the Baltic Military District in October 1949. It was received as a result of his service as a Sailor and former 120mm mortar unit serviceman, 1009th Mortar Regiment, 74th Mortar Brigade of the Coastal Defence, Stalingrad Front as a result of the following recommendation:

'He was drafted to the Red Army by the Bairanam district military commissariat of the Ashkhabad region on 6th November 1941. In an offensive operation near the Stalingrad city, he was severely wounded in the left leg on 21st September 1942.

He works as a shoe maker at the military unit No. 64328 in the Riga city. He has positive evaluations for his work.

I consider that comrade Zinoviev deserves to be bestowed with order 'Patriotic War II Class as an active Patriotic War participant.'

The date of the wound and the fact it states 'near the Stalingrad city' rather than in Stalingrad suggests that he was likely wounded to the north of Stalingrad during the Kotluban Offensives that were designed to pull Axis forces away from the city. During these operations the Red Army suffered large-scale casualties.


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