Annaklych Atayev

In the spring, when the snow melted, local residents of the village of mine No. 3 (now the village of Ataev) buried the bodies of the defenders of the height in the trench and looked after the grave. In 1965, the bodies of the dead were reburied in a mass grave on the Square of the Fallen Fighters of the city.

On January 21, 1943, Ataev's unit of 30 people crossed the frozen ice of the Seversky Donets River and with a sudden night strike, captured the dominant height of 79.9 in the enemy's defense line near the city of Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Oblast, and held it until reinforcements arrived.

According to the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "On conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to the command and rank and file of the Red Army" dated March 31, 1943, Atayev was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The command presented the fighters who fought with Ataev to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but in the end, the fighters were posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, I degree.

He served in the Red Army in 1934-37 and since 1941. He took part in the battles of the Great Patriotic War from 1942.

Commander of the 1st Squadron of the 294th Cavalry Regiment (112th Bashkir Volunteer Cavalry Division, 8th Cavalry Corps, 5th Tank Army, Southwestern Front).

Annaklych Atayev (Russian: Аннаклыч Атаев) (1912-1943) - squadron commander of the 294th cavalry regiment of the 112th volunteer Bashkir cavalry division of the 8th cavalry corps of the 5th tank army of the Southwestern Front, lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Born in 1912 in the village of Bedrikent, now the Ruhubelent etrap of the Dashoguz velayat of Turkmenistan, into a peasant family. Turkmen by nationality.