Russia – Soviet: An interesting and rare NKVD Order of the Red Star to Senior Lieutenant Filipp Fyodorovich Beryozkin, a Senior Special Agent with the 7th Section, 3rd Department, 5th Directorate of the NKVD for his work in routing out enemy elements residing in the Red Army.
Order of the Red Star numbered 93954
Condition: Nearly extremely fine
Senior Lieutenant of State Security Filipp Fyodorovich Beryozkin a Senior Special Agent with the 7th Section, 3rd Department, 5th Directorate of the NKVD was born in 1909, and joined the Red Army in 1931, he was to be awarded this Order of the Red Star on 1st May 1943 with the following citation.
‘Having worked at the Special Sections Department of the NKVD since the beginning of the Patriotic War, comrade F.F. Beryozkin successfully carried out tasks assigned by the Special Sections Department aimed at supporting the fronts ‘Special Sections’ encrypted communications and helped the Special Sections of the NKVD expose and crush enemy elements residing in Red Army units.