Graduation of Junior Lieutenant Courses

Southern Front, 11 (14) May 1943 Head of courses, Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Lev Illarionovich Puzanov reports to the commander of the 2nd Guards Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Yakov Grigorievich Kreizer, exchanges greetings with them. Ya.G. Kreiser and M.I. Puzanov are approaching the ranks of course graduates. Head of the Political Department of the Guard Army, Colonel Alexander Yakovlevich. Sergeev read out the order. The commander of the 2nd Guards Army, Lieutenant General Ya.G. Kreiser presents the Order of the Red Star to the Guard Lieutenant Ivan Ivanovich Kiryukov, cadet S.E. Chestnov. Speech by I.I. Kiryukov with a response after the award .. Speech by a member of the Military Council of the 2nd Guards Army, Major General Nikita Yegorovich Subbotin at a meeting. Columns of junior lieutenants - graduates of the courses are ceremonially marching across the field after the meeting. Among those present at the podium: Ya.G. Kreizer, N.E. Subbotin, A. Ya. Sergeev, L.I. Puzanov, and others.

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S. Kogan