Selim Nigmatovich Aitkulov

Selim Nigmatovich Aitkulov, 1913-1975, a Tatar of the Red Army, Guards lieutenant - his name also recorded in Tatar as Salim Nigmat uly Aitkulov and in Kazakh as Salim Nygmetuly Aitqulov. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin were conferred on him on 17 October 1943 for his conduct in the battle for the Dnieper, where he took command of his platoon after the platoon commander was wounded. After the war he headed the organisation department of the Uralsk regional consumer union. He died in 1975.