Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich Araslanov ( September 20, 1915 - January 5, 1945 ) - a Soviet soldier, major, commander of a tank battalion, one of the first natives of Bashkiria who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union [1] .
| Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich Araslanov | |||||
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| head off. Aryҫlanov Ғәfiәtulla Shaһimәrҙәn uly | |||||
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| Date of Birth | September 20, 1915 | ||||
| Place of Birth | village 2nd Kinzebyzovo , Russian Empire , modern Kinya-Abyz , Kuyurgazinsky district , Bashkiria | ||||
| Date of death | January 5, 1945 (aged 29) | ||||
| Place of death | Budapest | ||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||
| Type of army | armored forces | ||||
| Years of service | 1939 - 1945 | ||||
| Rank |  | ||||
| Commanded | tank battalion | ||||
| Battles / wars | The Great Patriotic War | ||||
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Biography
He was born on September 7 ( September 20, according to a new style) in 1915 in the village of 2nd Kinzebyzovo, now Kuyurgazinsky district of Bashkiria, into a peasant family. Bashkir.
He graduated from the Sterlitamak Petroleum College in 1937 . In the same year he was drafted into the Red Army by the Kuyurgazinsky District Military Commissariat of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1939 . He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. For the shown heroism and courage in the fight against white Finns, by Decree of 04/07/1940 awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union [2] . After he continued his service in the Red Army. In 1941 he graduated from the Ulyanovsk Tank School .
During the Great Patriotic War, G. Sh. Araslanov was the commander of a tank battalion. He liberated the cities of Kursk, Orel, Kharkov , Smolensk, Debrecen (Hungary). Guard Major [3] Araslanov died the death of the brave on January 5, 1945 [4] [5] in the city of Budapest . He was buried in the city of Sombor (Serbia) [4] .
Feat
On February 24, 1940, the younger commander of the platoon Gafiatulla Araslanov took part in the destruction of the Finnish bunker.
Our troops under the command of Marshal Semyon Tymoshenko February 21, 1940 broke through the enemy’s defenses on a 12-kilometer front section. It was the so-called Mannerheim Line - a deeply layered system of protective reinforced concrete structures. To enter the breakthrough and consolidate the success should have been our armored units. They included a platoon with a machine of a tower shooter Araslanov. His task was to destroy the Finnish bunker, which conducted a wide shelling of the terrain, preventing our infantry from attacking and moving forward.
Making the most of the terrain, the platoon tried to get as close to the bunker as possible, without revealing itself and without being exposed to a shot. But there, behind the embrasure, they also did not doze off, were on the alert. And now the machine of the platoon commander Pronin has already been hit. Following her, a second tank stopped. When the crew of Araslanov approached the bunker at 60-70 meters, the car immediately received four holes, but, despite this, Gafiat returned fire. Two shells hit the target. The gun in the bunker fell silent. Araslanov, having thrown back a tower cover, has jumped down on snow. He crawled to the neighbor of the damaged tanks and climbed into it to help the wounded. They opened fire again from the bunker, but not from the cannon, but from the machine gun. When the shooting stopped, Araslanov decided to crawl to the second tank. He was already at the target, when he suddenly noticed how several Finns in white camouflage uniforms were crawling towards the same tank, apparently with the aim of encircling it and taking wounded tankmen captive. Araslanov opened fire on them, taking them to flight. Then he pressed the starter: the motor rattled, the shells did not damage it. Taking all the wounded, he brought the tank out of the battlefield under heavy machine-gun fire from the enemy and saved the lives of four of his comrades-in-arms. This fight took place on February 24th. Our troops, despite the stubborn resistance of the enemy, continued to advance. And on March 12, Finland surrendered. The border line with it, according to the conditions of surrender, moved northward; the Karelian Isthmus with the city of Vyborg moved to us. The potential threat to Leningrad, which existed due to the proximity of external borders to the city, thus passed.
Awards and titles
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 7, 1940, junior commander of the platoon Araslanov Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 490) [2] .
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (02/23/1945) [6]
- Order of the Patriotic War I degree (01/22/1945) [7]
- Medals
Memory
- A street was named after the Hero and a memorial stele was installed in the village of 2nd Kinzebyzovo.
- In 2010, a memorial bas-relief of the Hero was opened at the Orenburg State Agrarian University , where the Chkalov Tank School was located during the war.
Notes
- ↑ Araslanov Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich on the website “Heroes of the Country” . Archived June 16, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 Award sheet in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 793756 , d. 3 , l. 20-22 ).
- ↑ according to many sources, the major, but the officer in the photo has the lieutenant colonel’s shoulder straps
- ↑ 1 2 Information in the electronic bank of documents of OBD “Memorial” .
- ↑ Information in the electronic document bank of the OBD “Memorial” .
- ↑ Award documents in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 690306 , d. 1049 , l. 2, 24, 25 ).
- ↑ Award documents in the electronic document bank “ Feat of the People ” ( TsAMO archive materials, f. 33 , op. 690155 , d. 5288 , l. 3, 52, 53 ).
Links
Araslanov, Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich . Site " Heroes of the country ".
- Araslanov Gafiatulla Shagimardanovich
- Vladimir Shakiev. The high price of victory // Republic of Bashkortostan, No. 87. - 08/08/2006.
- Marina Shumilova. A bas-relief of the Hero of the Soviet Union Gafiatulla Araslanov opened at the Orenburg Agrarian University . IA Bashinform (04/22/2010). Date of treatment December 28, 2013.