Soviet Russian red order badge star Medal banner Escort troops NKVD (#1025)

  

People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR. Serves in the 249th Regiment of the 35th Division of the NKVD USSR. Identity card issued in 1943. 249th Regiment of the NKVD Escort Troops of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. The regiment was formed at the outbreak of war in June 1941, according to the mobilization plan of the NKVD of the USSR, consisting of three companies as the 129th Separate Convoy Battalion of the Convoy Troops of the NKVD of the USSR.

It was based in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR. Soon, the battalion's personnel was brought up to the regimental strength of 1,070 people, and on June 23, the unit was renamed the 249th Convoy Regiment of the Convoy Troops of the NKVD of the USSR, becoming part of the 13th Division of the Captive Forces of the NKVD of the USSR. Major Filipp Ivanovich Bratchikov was appointed regimental commander, deputy commander for political affairs was battalion commissar Vasily Artamonovich (Artomovich) Klimenko, and chief of staff was Captain Dmitry Ivanovich Zub.

The regiment included two battalions, the commander of the 1st was Senior Lieutenant Ivan Dmitrievich Kreshevsky.