Russia – Soviet: A Topographers Medal for Bravery awarded to Reserve Corporal Nikolai Fyodorovich Markov, a Scout-Observer in the 1081st Artillery Regiment, 191st Rifle Division, for guaranteeing live communications during the crossing of the strait between Lake Peipus and Lake Pikhva.
Medal for Bravery, numbered 1178475
Condition: Very fine
Reserve Corporal Nikolai Fyodorovich Markov was born in the village of Berezovets, Zaluchye Raion, Leningrad Oblast in 1910 and having attained an elementary education served in the Red Army from June 1941 until November 1945.
Markov was to receive three numbered awards during the Great Patriotic War , the first of which was a Medal for Combat Merits issued to him by Order of the 1081st Artillery Regiment on 19th January 1944.
Markov’s second award was this Medal for Bravery issued to him by Order of the 1081st Artillery Regiment on 31st August 1944 as a result of the following recommendation:
‘Topographer in the staff of the 2nd Battalion Corporal Nikolai Fyodorovich Markov, for the fact that he, during the fighting in the course of the crossing of the strait between Lake Peipus and Lake Pikhva, while he was with the infantry formations, guaranteed the live communications between the battalion commander and the regimental staff, which enabled the timely delivery of reports under enemy fire, and for courage and his conscientious dedication to the tasks assigned to him.
Born in 1910, member of the Communist Party, drafted into the Red Army in 1941 by the military commissariat of the Dzerzhinsky Raion of the city of Leningrad, participating in the Patriotic War since June 22, 1941, hasn’t been wounded, awarded the Medal for the Defence of Leningrad and a Combat Merits Medal in 1944, home address (redacted).’
Markov would go on to win a second Medal for Bravery by Order of the 1081st Artillery Regiment on 19th May 1945, this would have been for a role in the wider Berlin offensive, where his unit as part of the 2nd Belarussian Front from north of Berlin drove along the Baltic Coast to the Elbe in order to protect the assault on Berlin’s northern flank.
After the war, Markov served as a Blacksmith at Factory nr. 218, whilst being a resident of Apartment 15, 28 Gagarinskaya Street in the city of Leningrad.
