Ts(a)ezar (Caesar) Lvovich Kunikov (russian: Це́зарь Льво́вич Ку́ников) (23 June 1909 – 14 February 1943) was an officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry. He served as commanding officer of a

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that recaptured the beach-head at

Malaya Zemlya Malaya Zemlya (russian: Малая Земля, lit. "Small Land") was a Soviet uphill outpost on Cape Myskhako (russian: Мысхако) that was recaptured after battles with the Germans during the Battle of the Caucasus, on the night of 4 Febru ...

during

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. He was mortally wounded in the battle, and was posthumously named a

Hero of the Soviet Union The title Hero of the Soviet Union (russian: Герой Советского Союза, translit=Geroy Sovietskogo Soyuza) was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for ...

for his heroic actions.Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР «О присвоении звания Героя Советского Союза начальствующему составу Красной Армии» от 17 апреля 1943 года
// Ведомости Верховного Совета Союза Советских Социалистических Республик : газета. — 1943. — 23 апреля (№ 16 (222)). — С. 1 Kunikov was born in Rostov on Don in a

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family. His father was an engineer and moved to Moscow in 1925. Kunikov worked in the Soyuz factory as a machinist. In 1932, he began studies at the

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

, and held the position of a technical manager in a machine building factory by 1938. At the start of the war Kunikov volunteered for the Red Army and served in the Naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet. Kunikov fought in the battle for Novorossiysk and the defence of

. He was mortally wounded in February 1943 in Novorossiysk.

Commemoration

* ''

Caesar Kunikov Ts(a)ezar (Caesar) Lvovich Kunikov (russian: Це́зарь Льво́вич Ку́ников) (23 June 1909 – 14 February 1943) was an officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry. He served as commanding officer of a landing party that recaptured the ...

'' – a Russian Navy landing ship * 2280 Kunikov – an asteroid

References

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