Russia – Soviet: A Long Service award of the Order of the Red Star awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Ignatyevich Golovchenko the Chief of Staff of the 30th Independent Artillery Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command for 15 years in the Red Army.
Order of the Red Star, type 2, without screw post plate and with flared edges numbered 910968
Condition: Good very fine
Nikolai Ignatyevich Golovchenko was born in the village of Bory, Msta Raion, Novgorod Oblast in 1907. Having attained a secondary education he served in the Red Army from 1928, and serving during the Great Patriotic War.
Serving as a member of the Artillery he was to be awarded on Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class by Order of the Volkhov Front on 15th February 1944, he was subsequently to receive this Order of the Red Star for 15 years long service in November 1944 while serving as a Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff of the 30th Independent Artillery Brigade of the Reserve of the High Command, and then after this he was awarded an Order of the Patriotic War 1st Class by Order of the Artillery Commander of the Leningrad Front on 5th June 1945. He was also to receive a Medal for the Victory over Germany.
After the war he was in post as Commander of the 1690th Howitzer Artillery Regiment, 131st Rifle Division, and he was noted as living in the village of Povodye, Msta Raion, Novgorod Oblast.
