Russia – Soviet: A Leningrad Front ‘For wounds’ Order of the Red Star awarded to Reserve Lieutenant Nikita Vasilyevich Ivanov, the Former Deputy Company Commander in the 98th Rifle Regiment, 10th Rifle Division, 23rd Army who had been wounded on November 1914, and again on 22nd February 1943 during an artillery barrage.
Order of the Red Star, type 6, numbered 2367285
Condition: Nearly extremely fine
Nikita Vasilyevich Ivanov was born in the village of Dedkovo, Novorzhev Raion, Leningrad Oblast in 1917. Having attained a higher education, he would go on to see service in the Red Army between 1941 and 1946.
Having seen service in the Defence of Leningrad, Ivanov was to receive the Medal for the defence of the city, as well as a Medal for the Victory over Germany. This Order of the Red Star would be issued to him by a decree of 6th November 1947, the citation being as follows:
‘Lieutenant Nikita Vasilyevich Ivanov took part in the Patriotic War from September 14, 1941 to July 1943, serving on the Leningrad Front and Karelian Fronts as a deputy company commander in the 10th Rifle Division’s 98th Rifle Regiment.
On February 22, 1943 his unit was on the defensive near Lake Lembolovo (Karelian Isthmus) and under artillery shelling he suffered a contusion. Earlier, on November 14, 1941, he had been wounded in his left shoulder girdle at Leningrad. His contusion and wound have been confirmed by medical nots. At the present time comrade Ivanov is not employed anywhere on account of his illness.
For having been wounded he deserves to be awarded the Order of the Red Star.’
Signed by the Military Commissar of the Kirov Raion, Lieutenant Colonel Romanov.
Later in 1948, Ivanov was working as the Chairman of the Automobile Repair Cooperative of the city of Riga whilst living at Apartment 19, 22 Artilleriyskaya (Artillery) Street, city of Riga.
