Russia – Soviet: A North-Western Front Order of Glory 3rd Class for wounds awarded to Soldier Pavel Prokofevich Konstantinov, a Rifleman of the 171st Rifle Regiment, 182nd Rifle Division for wounds received during the offensives in the area of Staraya Russa during February 1943 in which he was severely wounded and had his right arm amputated above the elbow.
Order of Glory 3rd Class, type 2, numbered 570160
Condition: lightly toned, Good very fine
Pavel Prokofevich Konstantinov was born in the village of Bolshie Dorki in Mstinsky Selsovet, Novgorod Oblast in 1896, he was called up to the Red Army in October 1941, presumably having been either forcibly conscripted or having volunteered as the fighting raged near to his home, he served as a Rifleman in the 171st Rifle regiment, 182nd Rifle Division, Northwestern Front.
Seeing fighting in the area around Novgorod and Leningrad, Konstantinov was wounded in the fighting around Staraya Russa, and this Order of Glory 3rd Class was his only award, issued to him in November 1947 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.
The recommendation for the award was as follows:
‘Comrade Konstantinov was on the Front of the Patriotic War from 20.10.1941 to 8.2.1943. During his service on the fronts of the Patriotic War, Comrade Konstantinov took part in offensive battles against the German-Fascist invaders in February 1943 in the area of Staraya Russa and Lychkovo (Novgorod Oblast) on the Northwestern Front as part of the 171st Rifle Regiment, 182nd Rifle Division; to capture the settlement of Bely Bor, Lychkovo, in the role of rifleman, where on 08.02.1943 he was severely wounded in elbow of the right arm and was sent to the hospital for recovery. As a result of the serious wound and the complete shattering of the bone of the right arm and elbow, the arm was amputated above the elbow. He is an invalid of the Patriotic War, 2nd group.
Four courage and steadfastness displayed in battles with the German invaders, Comrade Konstantinov deserves the government award of the Order of Glory 3rd Class.'
Signed by the Mstinsky District Military Commissar, Major of the Administrative Service Smirnov.
An invalid, he wasn’t working at the time of his receipt of this award in February 1948, and was living in the village of Kostovo, Novoselitsky, Mstinsky Selsovet in Novgorod Oblast.
