Posthumous awarding of Red Army private F.A. Poletaev in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Writer Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov, Italian Ambassador to the USSR Carlo Alberto Straneo, the hero's son Mikhail Fyodorovich Poletayev, the hero's widow Maria Nikanorovna Poletaeva and Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov (from left to right in the foreground) after the ceremony of awarding the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the Italian gold medal "For Military Valor" and the bronze five-pointed star - the badge of a fighter of the Garibaldi Partisan Brigade to a participant in the Great Patriotic War and a participant in the Italian Resistance movement to Guard Private of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Fyodor Andrianovich Poletayev posthumously. Captured by the Nazi invaders in July 1942, F. A. Poletaev escaped from the prisoner of war camp in the summer of 1944 and joined an Italian partisan battalion, where he died in one of the battles with the German punitive forces. Nikolai Sitnikov/TASS