Hunan Mkrtichovich Avetisyan
Унан Мкртичович Аветисян
1913 – 1943
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Hunan Mkrtichovich Avetisyan, 1913-1943, an Armenian senior sergeant, assistant platoon commander in the 1st company of the 390th Rifle Regiment. On 16 September 1943, in the Novorossiysk-Taman operation of the battle for the Caucasus, he covered the embrasure of a German machine-gun pillbox with his body so that his company could advance, and was killed. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin were conferred on him posthumously on 16 May 1944.
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- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of Lenin
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