Yusupov, Bari Abdullovich

In 1919 he joined the Komsomol, became a Red Army soldier. In 1934 he graduated from the Red Army Artillery Academy in Leningrad. In 1936 he was transferred to Ryazan as the commander of the artillery school division. In September 1941, Lt. Col. Yusupov, commander of the 403 howitzer artillery regiment, was appointed chief of staff of the operational group of the guards mortar unit. It went down in history as one of the first commanders who mastered new weapons - rocket mortars and commanded them in combat ^[1] .

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	Bust of Mukhina (right)

In January 1942, under relocation, a task force of five Katyusha divisions of Yusupov collided with German tanks. In a battle with them, he was seriously wounded in the head, but managed to knock out a tank with a grenade. The soldiers who discovered Barium’s body considered him dead and wanted to bury him in a common grave with the other dead, but one of them recognized Colonel Yusupov and prevented the burial ^[2] . He was taken out by ambulance to Moscow, where doctors managed to save his life and even save one eye. At the hospital, Yusupov was awarded the Order of Lenin. Vera Ignatievna Mukhina blinded a portrait from him. For the sculptural portraits of Colonels Ivan Lukich Khizhnyak and Bari Abdullovich Yusupov Mukhin in 1943 received the Stalin Prize of the second degree. After treatment, Yusupov led the training brigade of guards mortars, in 1946 he received the second Order of Lenin.

• Moskovskaya Pravda, March 27, 1981 (obituary) _ Infogans
• Zhuravlev D.A. Fire shield of Moscow .. - M .: Military Publishing., 1972.
• Voronova O.I. Vera Ignatievna Mukhina. - M .: Art, 1976.