Heroes and feats

Zoya Vladimirova (1924-1942) is a member of voluntary people’s patrol of the Tula Workers' Regiment. She took the first battle at the age of 17, in a day she bandaged 38 fighters, 25 of whom she carried from the battlefield. She died in the Smolensk region.

After storming the Reichstag. Wounded - Senior Sergeant Gazi (Gazetdin) Kazykhanovich Zagitov. On April 30, 1945, at 22:40 as part of an assault group under the command of Guard Captain V.N. Makov's, he was the first to hoist the Red Banner over the Reichstag building. At the same time he was wounded in the chest, but continued the fight.

Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously), Major General Shaimuratov Mingaley Minazovich (1899-1943) - commander of the 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division. (The title of Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated March 30, 2020).

Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Kusimov Tagir Taipovich - commander of the 1st regiment of the Bashkir Cavalry Division. Ufa.

Lieutenant Colonel Iskhak Gumerov - commander of the 1050th regiment of the 391st division of the 5th shock army.

Soldiers of the Bashkir Cavalry Division in a firing position. 1942 г.

Warriors from Bashkiria on Victory Day 9.05.1945.

Shamin Gavriil Petrovich, Guards Senior Sergeant, full holder of the Order of Glory.

Senior Sergeant Zagitov Gazi (Gazetdin) Kazykhanovich, a native of the Mishkin district of the the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and his fellow soldiers. He was one of the first to hoist the Red Banner on the Reichstag on 30 April 1945.

S.A. Akhmetova, Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service of the Bashkir Cavalry Division, 1944.

Instructor of the Political Department of the Bashkir division, Senior Lieutenant Dumaev. Voronezh Front, 1942.

Participant of the Battle of Stalingrad L.P. Atanova

Son of the regiment, Marat Davletgareev, a native of the Sermenevo village, Beloretsk district, the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Two times Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel Gareev Musa Gaisinovich, a native of the Ilishevsky district of the the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He fought in the battles of Stalingrad, in Donbass, Crimea, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and East Prussia (Germany). In total, during the Great Patriotic War he made about 250 combat sorties. Participant in the Victory Parade on 24 June 1945 in Moscow.

Hero of the Soviet Union, shooter-sniper Kovshova Natalia Venediktovna (1920-1942), born in Ufa city.