How to Pronounce Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov
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Mar 01, 1923 Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia Died on 21 Jan 1943 (aged 19)
Soviet soldier, member of a famous tank crew
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About Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov
- Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ??????; b.
- 1 March 1923, Yaroslavl – 21 January 1943) was a WWII Soviet tank commander.
- Naumov graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank School in November 1942 and quickly assigned to the Don Front to command a KV-1 heavy tank.
- Attached to the 344th Tank Battalion, he and his crew distinguished themselves on 21 January 1943, during the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad.
- Soviet forces had been attempting to take the Pitomnik Airfield and the farmstead of Novaya Nadezhda, near Stalingrad.
- When Naumov's crew ran out of ammunition, German soldiers poured gasoline on his tank and set it on fire, killing the entire crew.
- When Soviet forces took Novaya Nadezhda, the remains of Naumov and his men were buried nearby.
- Naumov himself was posthumously honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union.
