How to Pronounce Hunan Avetisyan
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May 02, 1913 Tsav, Syunik Province, Armenia Died on 16 Sep 1943 (aged 30)
Hero of the Soviet Union
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About Hunan Avetisyan
- Hunan Avetisyan (Armenian: ?????? ?????????, Russian: ???´? ?????´????? ???????´?; 20 July 1914 – 16 September 1943) was a Soviet Red Army senior sergeant from the 89th Rifle Division who sacrificed his life by covering the embrasure of a German machine gun pillbox with his body so that his fellow soldiers could keep moving against the enemy in the Novorossiysk-Taman Operation of the Battle of the Caucasus.
- He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin in recognition of his sacrifice by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in May 1944.
