Gasret Agaevich Aliev; 14 December 1922 – 28 February 1981) was a Soviet soldier and 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 ...
during
World War II
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. Aliev was awarded the title for his actions during the
Battle of the Dnieper
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II. One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a front.
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, where he reportedly killed 80 German soldiers. He held various ranks in different government organizations during his life, most notably he was the 1st secretary of the CPSU in Rutul 1957-1961, while residing in the village Hin.
Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
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on 14 December 1922 to a peasant family of Rutul ethnic background. He did not complete his high school education and instead worked on a collective farm.
In 1942 Aliev was drafted into the
Red Army
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. That same year he was sent to fight on the frontlines of World War II. He became a scout in the 496th Separate Reconnaissance Company of the 236th Rifle Division. He fought in the
Battle of the Caucasus
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. Order No. 2317 Dagestan ASSR Military Commissariat, available online a pamyat-naroda.ru /ref>
Aliev fought in the
Battle of the Dnieper
The Battle of the Dnieper was a military campaign that took place in 1943 in Ukraine on the Eastern Front of World War II. One of the largest operations of the war, it involved almost 4,000,000 troops at a time stretched on a front.
Over four m ...
. He received the Order of the Red Star on 10 September. On the night of 26 September 1943, Aliev was in a reconnaissance group of 19 soldiers under the command of lieutenant Sergey Shpakovsky (made a Hero of the Soviet Union by the same decree as Aliev) which crossed the
Dnieper River
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around the village of Soshinovka (
Dnepropetrovsk
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area). Through that night and the next day, the group repulsed eleven counterattacks by German troops. Aliev killed more than 80 German soldiers in hand-to-hand combat and by fire from his machine gun. In later battles for the expansion of the bridgehead, Aliev provided important military intelligence about the German forces.Hero of the Soviet Union citation, available online a pamyat-naroda.ru /ref>
Gasret Aliev was given the title of Hero of Soviet Union along with the
Order of Lenin
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and the Gold Star medal by the decree of the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (russian: Президиум Верховного Совета, Prezidium Verkhovnogo Soveta) was a body of state power in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).the "Izvestia" ("Известия" on russian) Newspaper № 259 from November, 2nd, 1943 with the published Decree about assignment of a title of the Hero of Soviet Union, Accessed 4 September 2010
In 1944 Gasret Aliev graduated from courses for junior lieutenants and returned to the front. He retired in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant and lived and worked in
. He died on 28 February 1981 in Makhachkala and was buried there.
Awards
Aliev was received the following awards.
* Hero of Soviet Union
* Order of Lenin
* Order of the Red Star
*
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
The Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" (russian: Медаль «За оборону Кавказа») was a World War II campaign medal of the Soviet Union.
Medal history
The Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" was established on May ...
* "The Heroes of Soviet Union" (''Герои Советского Союза'' in Russian).
* "Rutuls" (19th and beginning of the 20th centuries). Historic-ethnographic research. 1997
* "We Name by name". The book of memory. (''Назовем поименно. Книга памяти'' in Russian). 2002
* "Sketches of history of Dagestan" (''Очерки истории Дагестана'' in Russian). 1957