Mehmet Aipov

Early life Aipov was born on 12 July 1920 to a peasant family in the village of Kiryushkino in the Khvalynsky Uyezd of Saratov Governorate in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His family moved to Kostychi village when he was still a child. Aipov received primary education and worked as a mechanic on the Kuybyshev Railway depot at Oktyabrsk.

World War II In April 1942, Aipov volunteered for the Red Army. He was in combat within a month and fought on the Southwestern Front and the Stalingrad Front. Aipov was wounded in September 1942. In April 1943, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From September, he fought on the Southern Front and then on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. In October, the division was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front, and Aipov fought in the Vistula–Oder Offensive in January 1945. Order of Lenin