Soviet Medal for Combat Merit #147863

Description

 

 

 

Medal for Combat Merit #147863

 

To Sr. Sergeant Aleksander Leonidovich Lasygin (Александр Леонидович Ласыгин)

 

Awarded for regularly delivering ammunition supplies to the firing positions and personally destroying 2 enemy machine-guns by his hand grenades

 

 

Made of solid silver. The medal itself measures 32.07 mm in diameter and 36.60 mm in height including the eyelet. It weighs 21.1 grams without its suspension and 29.6 grams with the suspension but without the nut. The eyelet is 5.09 mm in width and the suspension measures 25.10 mm in width at its narrowest point and 31.41 at its widest point.

 

The medal is in decent condition with several dings and scratches and medium overall wear. A fair amount details are still visible and all of the red lacquer is worn off. The silver suspension is original as is the brass screw, the nut, the plate holding the ribbon and the screw plate tightening it all up. Its connection ring has been cut.

 

 

Brief, concrete description of his feat of arms or accomplishments

Quartermaster of the 2nd company, 2nd rifle battalion, Senior Sergeant LASYGIN Aleksander Leonidovich is bestowed, because he regularly delivered the ammunition supplies to the firing position. Personally, he destroyed 2 enemy machine-guns by his hand grenades.

Born 1914, VKP(b) member candidate, Russian, drafted to Red Army in 1941 by Sharlyk district military commissariat. Home address: intentionally obscured.

 

The full translation of the research can be read below: 

– register card

– citation

 

More info on Sgt. Lasygin be found here

 

 

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