Medal "For Defense of the STALINGRAD". + DOCUMENT AND OLD ORIGINAL PHOTO 1940s.
Awarded: l ieutenant Sukhanov Pavel Vasilievich - commander of the sapper group of the 21st NKVD Infantry Brigade. The 21st NKVD Infantry Brigade fought against German paratroopers and saboteurs in the rear of the Red Army troops during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Lieutenant Sukhanov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd class for bravery in January 1944 in the Polessky region of Ukraine. A group of sappers of lieutenant Sukhanov made passages in minefields for a tank attack of the...
