Aleksey Pasko

Aleksey Afanasyevich Pasko (; 1 March 1916 – 4 April 1997) was a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. He fought in the Second World War, being awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1945.

Biography Aleksey Afanasyevich Pasko was born on 1 March 1916, in Yekaterinoslav, in a family of employees. He was an ethnic Ukrainian. After graduating from the Poltava Medical College, he worked in a photo team.

By January 1945, Junior Technician-Lieutenant Aleksey Pasko was a tank driver of the 13th Guards Separate Heavy Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of Poland. Pasko's crew, together with a group of submachine gunners, attacked a large group of enemy troops near the city of Kobylin, destroying 1 tank, 5 artillery pieces and 30 enemy soldiers and officers. When, 12 kilometres southwest of Kobylin, Pasko's tank became immobilised to a malfunction, Pasko, with the tank crew and submachine gunners, repelled the attacks of the Nazis for three days, destroying an enemy armoured personnel carrier, five vehicles and many enemy fighters.

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