AWARD CITATION

 

1.

First, middle and last names

BAYKOV VASILY VASILYEVICH

2.

Rank

Captain of Medical Service

3.

Position, unit

Head of Medical Supply Service of the 198th Detached Medical Battalion

Is recommended for a Combat Service medal

4.

Year of birth

1911

5.

Nationality       

Russian

 

6.

Party membership

Party member since 1942, #4828690

7.

Participation in the civil war and posterior military actions aimed at the defense of the USSR (where and when)

 

Participant of liberation of the West Ukraine (from September 1939 till February 1940), participant of the Patriotic War: the Northwest front December 1941 till August 1942, the Stalingrad Front from September 1942 till 1943, the Central and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts since February 1943.

8.

Are there any wounds or contusions received during the Patriotic War?

None

9.

In the Red Army since

February 1932

10.

Drafted by what district military commissariat

Military Commissariat of Nezhinsk, Chernigovskaya Oblast

11.

Previous awards

The medal For Defense of Stalingrad and the Combat Service medal, order No. 04/N of the 112th Rylsko-Korostenskaya Rifle Order of Suvorov Division, of 7 February 1944

12.

Permanent home address ( of the prospective awardee or his/her family)

101 Uritskogo St., Kiev

Baikova Vera Romanovna

 

I. Brief Description of personal feat or merits

 

Captain of Medical Service Baykov has been on active duty in the 198th Detached   Medical Battalion as the Head of Medical Supply Service since August 1943. The prospective awardee is well trained and competent in the field. Due to Comrade Baykov’s indefatigable energy and diligence, the Medical Battalion and the Body of troops on the whole experienced no interruptions in supplies of bandaging materials and medicines in any situation. Under most difficult circumstances Comrade Baykov managed to provide the operative-dressing group with sufficient quantities of solutions.

 

The prospective awardee is active, persevering, and consistent in pursuing the tasks set by the command.

 

Commander (Head) of the 198th Detached Medical Battalion,

Captain of Medical Service                                                                               /Gotfrid/


 

(in detachments and squads of the Red Guard and Red Partisan squads)

from

month/year

till

month/year

Position (Unit, Body of troops, Front, City)

02/1935

05/1935

Head of the Sick Quarters Pharmacy of the 297th Rifle Regiment of the 99th Rifle Division, Uman town, Kievskaya Oblast

05/1935

07/1938

Head of the Pharmacy of the 297th Rifle Regiment of the 99th Rifle Division, Uman town, Kievskaya Oblast

07/1938

02/1940

Head of the Pharmacy of the Medical Battalion of the 99th Rifle Division, towns of Gaisin, Tulchin, Mogilev-Podolsky, Peremyshl’

02/1940

10/1941

Head of the Pharmacy of the Belotserkovsky Rifle and Machine-gun School, Belaya Tserkov, Tomsk

10/1941

08/1943

Head of the Pharmacy of the 42th Detached Order of the Red Banner Rifle Brigade of the 24th Army: the North-West Front, the Stalingrad Front, the Central Front

08/1943

 

Head of Medical Supply Service of the 198th Detached Medical Battalion of the 112th Rylsko-Korostenskaya Rifle Order of Suvorov Division

 

Is awarded a Combat Service medal

Decree of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 3.11.44 – long service

 

Total as of November, May 1944         12 years

Commander of the 198th Detached Medical Battalion                            30 July 1944

Captain of Medical Service

                                               

                                                            (Gotfrid)

 

 

 

Additional photos of Baikov's Group


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