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War machines donated by people of Mongolia

(Continuation of Colonel S.Ganbold’s interview “The contribution our Mongolia made to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War”) Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Preparing weapons using money donated by working people was one of vital forms of the aid campaign. On January of 1942, the 25th State Lesser Khural of the MPR was entrusted by the Government to create a tank brigade named "Revolutionary Mongol”. On February of 1942, the Government transferred 2.5 million MNT, 300 kg of gold and 100 thousand USD to the Foreign Trade Bank of the Soviet Union. In January of 1943, a column of tanks consisting of 53 “T-34” and “T-70” tanks with inscriptions “Revolutionary Mongol” in Russian on their towers were delivered by the delegation headed by Marshall Kh.Choibalsan to the Staff of the 112th brigade near Moscow. The “Revolutionary Mongol” received the title “Guardian Brigade” and was awarded the order of Mongolia “Red Banner of Combat Glory” for its meritorious service in the battle of Kursk. Then the brigade was named after city of Berdichev for its heroic fighting to re-capture the city. The commander of the brigade Colonel I.I.Gusakovskii and 14 other servicemen of the brigade were the titles “Hero of the Soviet Union”, and 7,770 soldiers were bestowed with state orders of Mongolia and Poland. Another battle gift from the Mongolian people to the Red Army was the air squadron “Mongolian Ard”. The financial resources to create this squadron were raised by the Mongolian people in just four months in 1943. On September 23 of 1943, the squadron consisting of 12 “La-5” bombers was presented to the formation of General-Lieutenant A.S.Balgoveshenskii. This squadron fought on the Volkhov, Kalinin, Western, Bryansk and First Baltic and Third Belarus fronts, took part in the Kursk, Vitebsk-Orsh, Sandomir battles, as well as in liberation of territories of Belarus, Lithuania, Eastern Prussia, Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia, and was awarded the Red Banner and Suvorov’s orders of the USSR.

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