Bio. of Viktor Korzh ?

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Stirrick
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Bio. of Viktor Korzh ?

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Post by Stirrick » 07 Sep 2017, 19:20

I've just been reading Viktor Korzh's excellent 'Red Star under the Baltic' and tried to find out a little more about him.

However every website I found came up with the same refrain: "The author was born in 1912 in the small Russian village of Melguny, Viktor Korzh graduated from the Naval Training College in 1938 as a submariner engineer" which is lifted straight from the book's dust-jacket.

Does anyone have any more information on him ?

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Re: Bio. of Viktor Korzh ?

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Post by GregSingh » 08 Sep 2017, 04:23

:welcome:

Collected from several sources, others please add/correct:

Корж Виктор Емельянович (Korzh Viktor Yemel'yanovich)
Born in 1912 in Melguny, Shulginsky district, Voronezh region
Ukrainian
Joined Red Army on 10.Jun.1933
Communist Party WKP(b) member
Died 1993

Rank:
инженер-капитан 3 ранга (Engineer Captain 3rd rank), which was equivalent of a Major, I think

Positions:
дублер механика 5-го ДПЛ (standby mechanic for 5th submarine squadron?)
командир БЧ-5 ПЛ С-7 (commander/leader of electro-mechanical team on submarine S-7)
Aug.42 - May.43 командир БЧ-5 ПЛ С-12 (commander/leader of electro-mechanical team on submarine S-12)
инженер-механик 1-го ДПЛ БПЛ КБФ (mechanic engineer for 1st submarine squadron? of submarine brigade of Baltic Fleet)

Awards:
1942 Орден Ленина (Order of Lenin)
1942 Орден Красного Знамени (Order of the Red Banner)
1943 Медаль "За оборону Ленинграда" (Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad")
1944 Медаль "За боевые заслуги" (Medal "For Battle Merit")
1944 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (Order of the Patriotic War 1st class)
1945 Медаль "За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941–1945 гг." (Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945")
1946 Медаль "За взятие Кенигсберга" (Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg")

Is this the photo from the book?
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Viktor Korzh


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Re: Bio. of Viktor Korzh ?

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Post by Stirrick » 08 Sep 2017, 17:38

Thanks Greg.

I'm really surprised that there's not much more information readily available on this guy.

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