Sobkalov Daniel Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ Military Unit: 42nd Cavalry Division_x000D_ _x000D_ The fascist command concentrated large military forces on the Stalingrad direction. Heavy fighting unfolded along the entire southern front. There was an immediate threat of a breakthrough of the fascist troops to Stalingrad and the North Caucasus. Just at this difficult time, the battle path of Daniel Sobkalov, who fought as part of the Caucasian cavalry corps in the 42nd Caucasian regiment, began. He was in command of a platoon. Daniel Ivanovich often recalled how fierce the battle turned out. The enemy sought to cross the Kuban river, capture the high ground in the area of Maykop and Armavir, and then go to the passes of the Main Caucasus range and through them to Transcaucasia._x000D_ In these critical days, the troops were read out order No. 227, which said: "the Fighting is taking place in the area of Voronezh, on the Don, in the South of the North Caucasus, to retreat further means to destroy ourselves and at the same time our Homeland." The platoon members commanded by Sobkalov, Daniil Ivanovich, were both Russian and Chechen. They stood to die to prevent the enemy from capturing the Caucasus. By the end of September and the beginning of October 1942, the front had stabilized everywhere in the North Caucasus. The enemy did not get rich sources of Caucasian oil. And our countryman Daniil Ivanovich Sobkalov also contributed to this victory .For heroism, for skillful command in battle, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the 2nd degree. But the main award was still ahead. Taking part in the liberation of our country from the German invaders in 1943, he was awarded the order of Alexander Nevsky.