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 () was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union, awarded together with the Order of Lenin personally or collectively for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society. The title was awarded both ...

during

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. Aliev was awarded the title for his actions during the

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, where he reportedly killed 80 German soldiers.

Biography

Aliev was born in the village of

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in the Samursky Okrug of the

Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1991), abbreviated as Dagestan ASSR or DASSR and also unofficially known as Soviet Dagestan or just simply Dagestan, was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Unio ...

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

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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 The Battle of the Caucasus was a series of Axis and Soviet operations in the Caucasus as part of the Eastern Front of World War II. On 25 July 1942, German troops captured Rostov-on-Don, opening the Caucasus region of the southern Soviet ...

.Order No. 2317 Dagestan ASSR Military Commissariat, available online a
pamyat-naroda.ru
/ref> Aliev fought in the

. He received the

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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 The Dnieper or Dnepr ( ), also called Dnipro ( ), is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. Approximately long, with ...

around the village of Soshinovka (

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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

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and the Gold Star medal by the decree of the

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of 1 November 1943 "For the successful Dnieper River crossing, strong securing of a foothold on the western bank of the Dnieper River, and both the heroism and courage shown".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

Makhachkala Makhachkala, previously known as Petrovskoye (1844–1857) and Port-Petrovsk (1857–1921), or by the local Kumyk language, Kumyk name of Anji, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Dagestan, Russia. ...

. 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 *

* Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus" * Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

References

External links

Gasret Aliev
at warheroes.ru
Rutulian National Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aliev, Gasret Rutul people Soviet military personnel of World War II 1922 births 1981 deaths Heroes of the Soviet Union People from Akhtynsky District Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

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