Defence of Stalingrad
Period
1942–1943 — defence period and medal dates from the certificate form:
- decree 22 December 1942 (as on the form);
- presentation date on the form: 23 September 1943.
Day-by-day combat participation is not recorded on the form — we do not invent it.
Places
- Stalingrad (historical name; now Volgograd) — in the award title and family context
- Moscow — family address and storage of the papers in the notebook
Participants
- Timofey Timofeevich Samsonov (Tyoma) — guards sergeant on the certificate
- Not Timofey Petrovich Samsonov (father)
- Tatyana Timofeevna — preserved the form in the notebook
- Misha Friolenko — notebook note: regiment reforming after Stalingrad (1943)
Related materials
- Document: Stalingrad defence medal — Samsonov T. T.
- Chapter (RU): Uncle Tyoma: documents and Stalingrad (EN diary 12 may be draft)
- Letters: Letters from the front (incl. Timosha 105–107)
Images and document
Medal certificate — Timofey Timofeevich Samsonov.
Timofey Timofeevich after the war.
Sources
Certificate text (family scan, notebook p. 108). Letters and chapters are pointers, not a combat diary.