Annaklych Atayev

Annaklych Atayev (1912–1943) – squadron commander of the 294th cavalry regiment of the 112th volunteer Bashkir cavalry division of the 8th cavalry corps of the 5th tank army of the Southwestern Front, lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography Born in 1912 in the village of Bedrikent, now the Ruhubelent etrap of the Dashoguz velayat of Turkmenistan, into a peasant family. Turkmen by nationality.

He graduated from the Chardjou Pedagogical College, then worked as a school director in the urban-type settlement of Takhta, then as an instructor at the Tashauz Regional Council of Osoaviakhim.

He served in the Red Army in 1934–37 and since 1941. He took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War from 1942. and with a sudden night strike, captured the dominant height of 79.9 in the enemy's defense line near the city of Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Oblast, and held it until reinforcements arrived. In just two days of continuous fighting, the squadron repulsed seven enemy attacks, destroying about three hundred enemy soldiers, three tanks, and an armored vehicle. Ataev died on January 22. The command presented the fighters who fought with Ataev to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but in the end, the fighters were posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.

In the spring, when the snow melted, local residents of the village of mine No. 3 (now the village of Ataev) buried the bodies of the defenders of the height in the trench and looked after the grave.

Memory At the site of the death of 29 Atayev soldiers from the 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division, a three-meter white marble obelisk was erected. In 1968, on the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Belaya Kalitva, a monument was erected on the nameless height where the heroes fought. The people called this height "The Height of Immortality". Honorary Citizen of Belaya Kalitva

Awards Order of Lenin Hero of Turkmenistan (posthumously) Books