Rank: Colonel. Branch of Service: Army, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard. Unit: 89th Guards Belgorod-Kharkov Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division. Born in 1914 at the Golyshmanovo station of the Omsk Railway. In the 1930s. He was a teacher at a school in the village of Lyagushi in the Kupinsky District of the Novosibirsk Region and studied in absentia at the History Department of the Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute. A. Belsky became a Director of this school in the late 1930th. He was drafted into the army in 1940 and sent to the Minsk Military Political School. With the beginning of the great Patriotic War in August 1941, Political Instructor A. Belsky was appointed to the 160th Rifle Division as a Commissar of a separate anti-aircraft battery, and then as a Commissar of a rifle battalion. Under his command, a battalion of the 89th Guards Belgorod-Kharkov Division liberated Kishinev, the capital of Moldova, on August 23, 1944. For the heroism in the Vistula-Oder operation on the territory of Poland by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 27 February 1945, the Commander of the 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 273rd Guards Rifle Kishinev Regiment of the 89th Guards Belgorod Kharkov Red Banner Rifle Division A. Belsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Captain A. Belsky took part in the storming of Berlin and was appointed a Commandant of the German town of Warnemunde. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve as a Military Commissar in the Western Ukraine. In 1962, with the rank of Guards Colonel, A. Belsky was dismissed to reserve, and in 1964 he was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the city of Kishinev. Hero of the Soviet Union A. Belsky died in 1970 in Kishinev. One of the streets of the city was named after him. Awards: the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal (1945); the Order of the Battle Red Banner (1943), the order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (1944).