Award-winning gold watch to the Hero of the Soviet Union M.P. Miroshnik from the Central Committee of the CPSU

An extremely rare find of our store is an original watch presented to the Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Petrovich Miroshnik by the Central Committee of the CPSU and The Government of the USSR in honor of the 20th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, as indicated by the inscription in a circle. Gold 583 samples. Satisfactory condition, the mechanism needs to be repaired. Guarantee of authenticity.

Mikhail Petrovich Miroshnik (1913-1996) was a Red Army soldier of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). Mikhail Miroshnik was born on November 13, 1913 in the village of Velikaya Pisarevka (now a settlement in the Sumy region of Ukraine). He graduated from four grades of school, after which he worked first on his parents' farm, then on a collective farm. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he found himself under occupation, and after his liberation in August 1943, Miroshnik was drafted to serve in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Since September of the same year, he served on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, was wounded and concussed twice in battles. By September 1943, Red Army soldier Mikhail Miroshnik was a rifleman with the 955th Infantry Regiment of the 309th Infantry Division of the 40th Army of the Voronezh Front. He distinguished himself during the Battle of the Dnieper. On the night of September 21-22, 1943, Miroshnik, as part of an assault group, crossed the Dnieper River in the area of Monastyrek farm (now in the village of Rzhishchev in the Kagarlyk district of the Kiev region of Ukraine) and took an active part in the battles for the capture and retention of the bridgehead. During the capture of the bridgehead, Miroshnik personally destroyed about 20 enemy soldiers and officers, and then repelled three German counterattacks. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 23, 1943, for "courage and bravery shown during the crossing of the Dnieper and holding a bridgehead on the right bank of the river," Red Army soldier Mikhail Miroshnik was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal number 3995. In 1944, Miroshnik was demobilized due to disability.. He lived in his homeland and worked on a collective farm. He died on July 14, 1996, and was buried in Velikaya Pisarevka. He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and a number of medals.