Teyfuq Amit oglu Abdul

Teyfuq Amit oglu Abdul, 1915-1945, a Crimean Tatar. He graduated from the M. V. Frunze Crimean Pedagogical Institute and was working as a schoolteacher when he was drafted in November 1939; he trained at the Oryol infantry school and went to the front as a junior lieutenant with the 412th Rifle Regiment. He commanded the 2nd battalion of the 175th Guards Rifle Regiment, and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was conferred on him on 20 December 1943. He held the rank of Guards major by 1945 and was killed on 18 March 1945 at Ober-Eschkittel in Upper Silesia.