Aleksey Askar
Aleksey Askar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 June 1901 Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia) |
| Died | 12 October 1971 (aged 70) Tambov, Tambov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service/ | Red Army (Sapper) |
| Years of service | 1918–1920, 1939–1940, 1943–1945 |
| Rank | Starshina |
| Unit | 1031st Rifle Regiment 280th Rifle Division 60th Army Central Front |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards | |
| Other work | Railway worker |
Aleksey Askar (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; Script error: The function "langx" does not exist.; 2 June 1901 – 12 October 1971) was a Red Army starshina, a sapper in the 1031st Rifle Regiment of the 280th Rifle Division (60th Army, Central Front), and a Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).
Biography
Aleksey Askarov was born on 2 June 1901 in the capital of Georgia, the city of Tiflis (since 1936 — Tbilisi) to a working-class family. He was of Circassian ethnicity and had a primary education.
In 1918, he volunteered for the Red Army. He fought in Central Asia, participated in suppressing the mutiny of the Czechoslovak Legion, fought against Kolchak's forces, and took part in the liberation of Minsk and Baranovichi from the White Poles. In 1929, Askarov was assigned to agricultural work as part of the Twenty-five-thousanders movement. During the Soviet-Finnish War, he served as a machinist on a steamship in the port of Murmansk.
He was drafted back into the Red Army in June 1943 and joined the active army in August 1943. He was assigned to a sapper unit of the 1st Ukrainian Front (formerly the Central Front). He distinguished himself during the crossing of the Dnieper river and his regiment's crossing of the Teteriv river near Chernobyl in September 1943.
As a sapper of the 1031st Rifle Regiment (280th Rifle Division, 60th Army, Central Front), Red Army man Aleksey Askarov particularly distinguished himself during the crossing of the Dnieper on 25 September 1943, near the village of Okuninovo in the Kozelets Raion of the Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine.
The skilled sapper repaired fishing boats and built rafts. Under hurricane enemy fire, he successfully completed several trips to ferry groups of soldiers and ammunition to the opposite bank of the Dnieper, enabling Soviet forces to capture and hold a strategic bridgehead.
On 30 September 1943, Askarov took an active role in ferrying units of the 1031st Rifle Regiment across the Teteriv river in the Chernobyl Raion of the Kyiv Oblast.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 17 October 1943, for the exemplary execution of combat missions and the courage and heroism displayed in the fight against the German fascist invaders, Red Army man Aleksey Alekseevich Askarov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, along with the Order of Lenin and the "Gold Star" medal (No. 1178).
After the war, Starshina Askarov was demobilized. He lived in the city of Tambov and worked at the Tambov railway depot. He died on 12 October 1971.
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References
Bibliography
- Shkadov, Ivan (1987). Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь [Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 1. Moscow: Voenizdat.
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