Shatiel Semyonovich Abramov

Shatiel Semyonovich Abramov, 1918-2004, born in Derbent and died in Moscow, a battalion commander of the Red Army. He distinguished himself in the fighting for Poznan: on 19 February 1945, when the battalion commander was put out of action, he took over the command, and in the assault on the Poznan citadel his battalion is recorded as having destroyed up to four hundred of the enemy and taken a large number of prisoners. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on him on 31 May 1945. He was a university dean after the war.