L Korniyets Presents Awards

Voronezh Front, May 14, 1943. Presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union to Lieutenant-Technician of the 392nd Tank Battalion of the 180th Separate Tank Brigade Pyotr Zakharovich Monakov carts of the retreating enemy). Member of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front, Lieutenant General Leonid Romanovich Korniyets and the head of the personnel department of the Voronezh Front, Colonel Alexander Petrovich Antonyuk in the garden at the table on which the awards are laid out. L.R.Korniyets and A.P. Antonyuk are sorting out awards. Colonel A.P. Antonyuk reads out the order for awarding, one of the awardees approaches the table, L.R. The Kornian presents him with an award, shakes hands. A.P. Antonyuk attaches the "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union to Lieutenant P.Z. Monakov. The instructor of the political department of the 180th separate tank brigade, Captain Yevgeny Alexandrovich Brusnitsyn, congratulates the hero, kisses him. Branches of a blossoming apple tree in the garden, where the rewarding of the heroes takes place.

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