Yakov Chervin
Award Card

Award Card

Award card, or honor card, of the Soviet Army.

Front: Certificate 2-570970
Surname Given name and patronymic Rank Gender Birth date Place of Birth Party Membership, year Education Nationality Enlistment Place of service Current place of service Address
Chervin Yakov Mikhailovich Lieutenant M 1914 Mariupol USSR ?? 1939 Lower Jewish 6.1941 to 3.1943 Dunai military flotilla
... Odessa
Lenin ... director
magazine 14
city of Kuibyshev
Voroshilov 150-3
Back: List of honors
Awards and Medals Number Document Basis for Award
Medal Za boevye zaslugi
"Military service"
3012902 49/Book 401220 Edict ... June 29, 1948

Stamped and signed, 1957.


Further information regarding the unit involved:

July 5, 1941. For the defense of the coastal flank of the Southern front, and to cover the region of Odessa from the west, the Coastal group was created out of the army of the Southern front. ... Operationally it was subordinate to the Odessa military seabase and the Dunai military fleet. On July 15 the group was reorganized into the coastal army (coast guard?). Source: TsVMA, fond 204, d. 9105, pp. 17-18.

August 1 1941. By order of the command of the coastal army, units of the people's militia began to be formed in Odessa. Source: Military Journal VMF 1941-1942, section "Activities of the Dunai and Azov military fleets" p. 225 (Moscow, Military press, 1983.)

Sep. 1, 1941. By order of the command of the Odessa Defense region on the basis of units belonging to the Eastern group of the OOR army, and Odessa volunteers the Odessa rifle division (colonel G. M. Kochenov) converted Sep. 11 1941 to the 421st rifle division. Source: TsVMA, fond 204, d. 6772, pp. 14, 14v.


Source: Pavel Bernshtam


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