Umar Zaalievich Bogatyrev was born in 1913 (1917) in the village of Surkhakhi, Nazran district, where he lived with his wife and daughter before being drafted into the army. He joined the army three days before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. All recruits from the village of Surkhakhi were taken to the city of Grozny for further relocation. That is where the conscripts learned about the beginning of the war, and the next morning they were all sent to the city of Kamensk, Rostov region. Thus, the battle path of Bogatyrev Umar began from the first day of the war. At the end of 1941, after completing artillery courses, he was transferred to Ukraine. Later, he fought as part of the 1st Ukrainian front in the 53rd army under the command of Konev. In 1943, after completing junior command courses in the city of Sumy, he was appointed commander of a mortar platoon, then, his military path led him to the Kursk Bulge. The most trying test for the soldiers and officers of the Red Army was the battle of Kursk, which lasted from July 5 to August 23, 1943. In terms of scale, the forces and means involved, the intensity, results, and military-political consequences it became one of the key battles of the Great Patriotic War. About two million people, six thousand tanks, and four thousand planes participated in the battle of Kursk. Of the 13 Red Army artillery batteries on the Kursk bulge, one was commanded by U. Bogatyrev. In these bloody battles, the troops under the command of General I. Konev distinguished themselves during the offensive in the Belgorod-Kharkiv direction. Umar Bogatyrev would recall this experience. The old soldier, also, remembered the meeting with Marshal Zhukov. One day after the capture of Budapest, he approached the soldiers and, addressing Umar, asked: "Do you, Umar Salievich, think we will take Berlin?", to which he replied: "We will definitely take it, comrade Marshal!» Then Bogatyrev's platoon was transferred to Belgorod. At the end of 1944, he participated in the liberation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. In May 1945, being part of the 241st rifle division, an artillery battery commanded by Bogatyrev entered Berlin. In one of the 11 banner groups that hoisted the banner of Victory over the Reichstag was the Ingush Umar Zaalievich Bogatyrev. For his heroism and courage during the capture of the city of Berlin, Umar Bogatyrev was presented the order of the RED STAR! This order was awarded to him immediately after the capture of the city. Umar Zaalievich is one of the few Ingush soldiers who reached Berlin, despite the fact that the entire Ingush people were repressed in 1944.