CITY: village Verkhny Kurp .HISTORY: By the Leadership of the Malo-Kabardinsky district in 1924 Ashkhotov at a young age he was sent to study at the Leninsky educational town in Nalchik, which he successfully graduated in 1929. After graduation, he immediately began to work, worked in various responsible positions: the chief accountant of the Malokabardinsky irrigation system department in the Kotlyarevskaya station , inspector for lending to collective farms in the State Bank of the village. Murtazovo, accountant of the jam brewery in the village. Planovskoye, an accountant, and then the chairman of the collective farm "Krasny Vostok" in the village Verkhny Kurp, chairman of the Verkhny Kurp rural consumer society. Since July 1941, Dzhambulat Talovich was mobilized to the Tersk military registration and enlistment office, where he worked as the head of the office until June 1942, after which he was enrolled as a cadet in the Uryupinsky military infantry school to train the command staff of the army. However, after 3 months of study, the school (due to the prevailing situation at the front) was closed and all personnel was sent to the front. The Germans came close to the borders of the Kabardino-Balkarian ASSR. Combat path during the Great Patriotic War Ashkhotov D.T. began in the Caucasian direction, fighting in military units, namely in the 75th separate anti-tank artillery battalion of the North Caucasus Military District, 82nd Rifle Regiment of the 32nd Guards Division of the North Caucasus Military District, 903rd Guards Mountain Rifle Regiment of the 242nd Mountain - a rifle division, a separate counterintelligence company "Smersh" of a separate Primorskaya army of the Tauride military district. Also Ashkhotov D.T. fought on the front line "Defense of the Kerch Strait", which was strategically important. The Germans tried with all their might to seize the strait and come closer to the Baku oil. However, the plans of the German command were not destined to come true. Our troops bravely defended the strait, all the attacks of the Nazis every time choked and the enemies rolled back. After a long defense, our troops went on the offensive, defeated the German fascist invaders and liberated the Kerch Peninsula. Subsequently, the 82nd Guards Rifle Regiment, as part of a separate Primorsky Army, took part in the battles for the liberation of the Crimean Peninsula. One of the brightest events was the battle on Sapun-Gora, where they broke the German defense by storm and hoisted the banner on its top, and then entered the city of Sevastopol with battles, after which on May 10, 1944 Crimea was liberated from the invaders. For courage and bravery displayed during the Great Patriotic War, Ashkhotov Dzhambulat Talovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals: "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For Victory over Germany" and anniversary awards. In the war he was wounded three times and lived until the end of his life with a shell fragment in his chest. After the end of the war in November 1945, Ashkhotov Dzhambulat Talovich returned from the front to his native village on the Verkhniy Kurp of the Kabardian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and was actively involved in the reconstruction work of the village destroyed by the war. At a general meeting of communists of the Krasny Vostok collective farm, deputy chairman of the collective farm Ashkhotov Dzhambulat Talovich (member of the CPSU since July 1941). He was also elected secretary of the party organization. The secretary of the Tersk RK VKP (b) Akhaminov, in a description signed by him in 1947, noted that Ashkhotov D.T. has the organizational ability to mobilize the collective farm masses to fulfill the tasks facing the collective farm and the district. In 1947, D.T. Ashkhotova was appointed deputy director of the Kurp MTS, and after 2 years in September 1949 he was sent to study at the Dagestan Agricultural Institute, to training courses for leaders of the national economy. After returning from school, starting in October 1950, he held various management positions - director of Nagornaya MTS in the village. Malka, chairman of the collective farm named after Zhukova G.K. in with. Arik, director of the Urozhainensky hemp plant, chairman of the collective farm named after Telman E. in village Krasnoarmeyskoye, director of the Urozhainensky forestry enterprise, secretary of the party organization of the collective farm named after Kalinina M.I. in village. V. Kurp, head of the road department of the Tersk regional executive committee; in the 50-60s he was elected a member of the Nagorny, Urozhainensky, Tersky RK VKP (b). In the work of Ashkhotov D.T. kept in touch with republican newspapers. For example, in 1953, when he worked as director of the Nagornaya Machine and Tractor station, two of his notes were published in the Kabardinskaya Pravda newspaper: "An important business of machine operators" and "On the fields of mountain collective farms." They talked about the development of the mechanization of collective farm production. The same newspaper also published two of his speeches on vital issues of the country's life. After retirement, Dzhambulat Talovich worked in the Tersk branch of the State Insurance Agency as an insurance agent. For many years of conscientious work he was awarded the "Labor Veteran" medal.