Hamazan Gizatullin

Khamazan Gataullovich Gizatullin (; 10 May 1921 – 19 November 19, 2007) was the commander of a 45-mm gun of the 63rd separate anti-tank fighter battery of the Red Army during World War II and a recipient of the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Early life Gizatullin was born on 10 May 1921 to a Tatar peasant family in the village of Sibirki, Ichkinsky village council, Kyzylbaev volost, Shadrinsky District, Yekaterinburg province, RSFSR. Now the village is part of the Yuldussky village council, Shadrinsky district, Kurgan region. Tatar by nationality.

After graduating from the Ichkinskaya seven-year school, he worked on the collective farm "Trud Lenina" (according to other sources, "Trud Ilyicha") in the village Titov, Kargapolsky District, Chelyabinsk Region (located in present-day Shadrinsky District, Kurgan Region).

In September 1940, the Kargapol district military commissariat drafted him into the Red Army. Initially he served as a border guard in the Far East, then he graduated from the Vladivostok School of Junior Commanders. of the 45-millimeter gun of the 63rd separate anti-tank fighter battery, of the 106th Trans-Baikal rifle division. In February 1943, together with the division, Gizatullin arrived at the front. For participation in the battles he was awarded the medal "For Courage".

Since 1943, a member of the Communist party.

On October 15, 1943, south of the Belarusian village of Love, Gomel region, Khamazan Gizatullin was among the first to cross the Dnieper on a raft, quickly entrenched himself in the captured bridgehead and destroyed 2 machine-gun emplacements and more than 20 enemy soldiers with direct fire, repelled counterattacks and ensured the crossing of the main forces of the division. The gun crew of Gizatullin continued the offensive and for 8 kilometers moved in the forward lines of the Soviet troops, knocking out 7 enemy tanks. Being wounded in both legs, he was sent to the hospital, where he learned that by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 30, 1943, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 1655). and fellow soldiers: Senior Sergeant Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nemchinov and Junior Sergeant Andrey Akimovich Kozorezov.

Returning after a cure, Gizatullin was sent to study at junior lieutenant courses, which he graduated in 1944. Later he fought on the 2nd Belorussian Front.

On June 24, 1945, he took part in the Victory Parade.

Postwar After the war, Gizatullin continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1953 he graduated from the Advanced Courses for Officers (KUOS).

He served as assistant chief of staff, chief of staff of the motorized rifle battalion of the 428th motorized rifle regiment of the 9th motorized rifle division.

He entered the reserve in 1960 with the rank of major. Order of Lenin (30 October 1943); Order of Alexander Nevsky, (9 April 1945) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (6 April 1945) Order of the Red Star Medal "For Courage" Medal "For Battle Merit" In Maykop, a street is named after Gizatullin. Memorial plaque on the house where Gizatullin lived in 1975–2007 (Maikop, Khakurate st., 236b). Football tournament in memory of Kh. G. Gizatullin between the teams of Uldus and Sibirkov. Tombstone at the Maykop city cemetery. Monument in the village of Sibirki.

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