Rank: Captain Hero of the Soviet Union-Alexander F. Kuvashev, battalion commander of the 38th guards rifle regiment (14th guards rifle division, 57th army, Steppe front) of the Guards captain. He was born on November 29, 1910, in the village of Novosti, now Rybinsky district, Yaroslavl region, in a peasant family. In the late 1920s, after the death of his father, he went to live with his older brother in Leningrad and began working at a marble-sawing factory. In May 1931, he entered the course of master-concentrators. After completing his studies, he was sent to the city of Khibinogorsk (now Kirovsk, Murmansk region) to work as a foreman at a processing plant. In May 1938, he was recalled by the Leningrad regional Committee of the trade Union of workers of the mining and metallurgical industry and elected Chairman of the trade Union Committee of the Leningrad plant "Ilyich". In August 1938, he was elected Chairman of the regional Committee of the Union of workers of the mining and metallurgical industry. In 1939, he joined the CPSU (b), in the same year he moved to work in the Central bodies of the Union. In the Red Army since 1941. Participant of the Great Patriotic War from the first days. In 1943, he graduated from the course of commanders of rifle battalions at the course "shot". He distinguished himself during the crossing of the Dnieper in the fall of 1943. On the night of September 26, 1943, guard captain Kuvashev successfully organized the transfer of the battalion to Pushkarevsky island in the area of Verkhnedneprovsk (now Verkhnedneprovsky district of Dnepropetrovsk region). The battalion commander personally directed the crossing, until he transported half of the people and equipment. Then he crossed himself and organized a defense on the open sandbank of the island, covering the crossing of the rest of the battalion. As soon as the battalion concentrated on the island, Kuvashev launched an offensive, drawing the soldiers to the attack by personal example. The soldiers quickly reached the enemy trenches and engaged in hand-to-hand combat. The battalion commander was in front of five Hitlerites, having remarkable strength, killed two soldiers with the butt of a machine gun, and shot the officer with a pistol, but at this time he was seriously wounded. With a pistol, he killed three more soldiers, and then lost consciousness. The fascist who ran up shot at the officer at point-blank range... Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 20 December 1943 for exemplary performance of fighting tasks of command at the front struggle with German-fascist invaders and displaying courage and heroism guard captain Kovalevu Alexander Fedorovich was posthumously awarded the title “Hero of the Soviet Union”. He was buried on the battlefield, on the island Pushkarevskoe verhnedneprovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region. Awarded the orders of Lenin, Alexander Nevsky, and medals.