Russia – Soviet: A final destruction of the German forces around Konigsberg Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class awarded to Guards Red Army Soldier A.V. Kutischev, Telephonist, 3rd Artillery Battalion, 22nd Guards ‘Yevpatoriya’ Red Banner Artillery Regiment, 3rd Guards ‘Volnovakha’ Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Rifle Division for laying communications lines and repairing breaks in the wire under enemy fire even while severely wounded.
Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class, type 2, flatback reverse, numbered 914112
Condition: pleasantly toned, Good Very Fine
Ardalon Vladimirovich Kutishchev was born in the village of Nizhnie Serogozy in Kherson Oblast during 1925. A Russian national attained a higher medical education before serving in the Red Army from April 1944 until September 1945. He suffered a severe wound with the 1st Baltic Front on 12th October 1944 and a severe shrapnel wound whilst serving with the 3rd Belarussian Front on the Zemland Peninsula on 14th April 1945.
This was his sole award of the Patriotic War and was issued to him in the 1950’s despite being awarded to him by decree of the 11th Guards Rifle Corps on 11th May 1945, it was awarded as a result of the following recommendation:
‘In battle from 12 to 18.4.1945, while liquidating the Zemland group of enemy forces, he maintained uninterrupted communications between the battle lines of the infantry and the battalion commander.
On 14.4.1945, in battle for the settlement of Germau, risking his life under enemy fire, he laid communications from the battalion HQ to the lines of the infantry and maintained uninterrupted communications, repairing up to 20 breaks in the wire, which facilitated the fulfilment of the assigned mission.
Severely wounded, he continued to carry out his duties until he was evacuated.’
After the war he served as the Chief Doctor and Surgeon at the Dyakovo Hospital at Rovenkovsky District whilst living in the village of Dyakovo, Rovenkovsky District, Voroshilovgrad Oblast.
