Zhetpisbaev Baltabek_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Major. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 8th guards rifle Rezhitskaya order of Lenin red banner order of Suvorov division named after I. V. Panfilov. Baltabek Dzhetpysbayev was born in 1907 to a peasant family in the village of Murat Zhana-semeysky district of Semipalatinsk region. A career soldier who was drafted into the army in 1931, his father graduated from the Tashkent military school. Fought with the robber bands, and was included in the Book of honor of SAVO. Since the formation of the division, he was the Komsomol of the 1075th rifle regiment, which was glorified by 28 Panfilov guards. On October 15, 1941, in the first battle with the Germans near Moscow, he was the first to hit an enemy tank. This was a feat in itself, since the armored vehicles that poured machine-gun fire on everything were disconcerting to the untrained soldiers. For three days the company held back the enemy, who were striving to Volokolamsk, and from there – to Moscow. For these and other fighting Baltabek of Zhetpisbaev was awarded the order of the red Star. And on July 23, 1942, the command of the 8th guards division presented him with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for special courage and bravery. He himself did not know about this idea and fought until the end of the war: liberated Belarus, Lithuania, fought in Prussia, participated in the storming of Konigsberg. After the victory, he was sent to the Japanese war. He stayed in Pyongyang for two more years as part of the troops in North Korea. He was discharged in 1947 for years of service with the rank of major in the guards. In military conditions, the submission to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union did not get to the appropriate authorities in a timely manner. In 1959. it was accidentally discovered in the archive of the USSR Ministry of defense. Three times (1961, 1967, 1971). the Central Committee of the CP of Kazakhstan petitioned the Supreme Soviet of the Union to award Baltabek Jetpisbayev the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Dimash Akhmedovich Kunaev sent a personal letter to Brezhnev, but the issue was never resolved positively. In August 1971, Baltabek Jetpisbayev died.