Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov (Александр Матвеевич Матросов) ( 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead. January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin... 1924- 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 - End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 11 - General Juanto dies in Argentina - Ramon... 1943) was a famous Soviet infantry soldier during the The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. The front was opened by Operation Barbarossa... Great Patriotic War.

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Although the deed of Alexander Matrosov quickly became legendary in the Soviet Union, the boy's actual background remains disputed. Officially he was born in REDIRECT Dnipropetrovsk ... Dnepropetrovsk. Having spent his early youth in orphanages and correctional camps, he was drafted in September 1942 and started training in a military academy near Orenburg (Оренбу́рг) is a city on the Ural River and the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast in the Volga Federal District of Russia. It lies 1478 km south of Moscow. The city had a population of approximately 548,800 as of the... Orenburg. In January 1943 he was sent to the front as a private with the 91st Pacific Naval Volunteers Brigade, where he accomplished his heroic deed. According to another version, Matrosov's real name was Shakir'yan Yunusovich Mukhamed'yanov, and he russified his The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. A significant number of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Kurgan, Perm, Sverdlovsk, Samara, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia. Overview Bashkirs particularly inhabit the slopes and confines of... Bashkir name to avoid ethnic discrimination in the orphanage. Sometimes Matrosov's deed itself is contested, as well as the deeds of the 300 other Soviet soldiers who are said to have thrown themselves on German machine-guns during the War. Yet whatever Soviet propaganda contributed to the myth-building, in the countries of the former Soviet Union the deed of Alexander Matrosov continues to be a well-known and powerful symbol of self-sacrifice and despair that characterised the Great Patriotic War.