Ramil Khayrullaevich Abdrshin

Ramil Khayrullaevich Abdrshin, 1925-1943, a Tatar from Novomusino in the Belebey uyezd - his name also recorded in Tatar as Ramil Khayrulla uly Gabdershin. He served as a sergeant in the Red Army and was killed on 8 November 1943 in what is now the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district of Kyiv oblast, in the fighting beyond the Dnieper. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on him posthumously nine days later, on 17 November 1943. He was eighteen years old; the Russian account gives his birthday as the same date, 8 November.