Shamil Rachmatullin Biography

Chernigov, on the grave of Rakhmatulin Shamil Saidovich - commander of the Millimeter battery of the Guards Cavalry Regiment of the Guards Chernigov Cavalry Division, formed in December in the city of Ufa, like I am the Bashkir Cavalry Division; The commander of the Artillery-Minor-Minuted Regiment of the Guards Cavalry Division of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the Central Front, the Guard Captain.

Born on September 7 in the city of Tomsk in the family of a worker. He graduated from high school. In the Red Army since the year. In the year he graduated from the Moscow Artillery School. At the front in the Great Patriotic War since the year. Until September, he commanded the artillery battery in the Cavalry Regiment of the Bashkir Volunteer Cavalry Division since February 14, the Guards Cavalry Regiment of the Guards Cavalry Division, traveling in its ranks a glorious military path from the shores of the Volga to the Dnieper, participating in the Battle of Stalingrad, in the battles for the liberation of Voroshilovradgrad From a year to a year and from the year and now - Lugansk.

Here, in the ranks of the glorious Bashkir cavalrymen, Sh. Rakhmatullin gained combat experience, becoming a skilled officer of the artilleryman. In September, he was appointed commander of the artillery-minute regiment of the Guards Cavalry Division. However, he was destined to command the regiment for less than a month, the commander of the artillery-minute regiment, I am the Guards Cavalry Division, the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps, the Central Front Candidate Captain Shamil Rachmatullin, Captain Shamil Rachmatullin, under the fire of the enemy on September 30, skillfully organized a crossing of his divisions across the Dnieper River in the district of the settlement in the district The urban type of Loev of the Gomel region of Belarus and battles for the bridgehead.

For more than a day, his regiment reflected the counterattack of enemy infantry and tanks, contributing to the crossing of parts of the cavalry division. The brave officer fell the death of the brave in battle on October 1. He was buried in the city of Chernigov in a mass grave in a park on Valu.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 9, for the exemplary implementation of the combat mission of the command in the fight against the Nazi invaders and the guards shown at the same time, captain Rachmatullin Shamil Saidovich posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The name of the hero is named Street and Lane in the city of Chernigov, a street in the capital of Tatarstan - the city of Kazan.

The name of Sh. Rakhmatullin was carved in golden letters on memorial boards along with the names of all and heroes of the Soviet Union of the Bashkir Guards Chernigov Cavalry Division, established at the National Museum of the Republic of Bashkortostan Ufa, Sovetskaya Street, 14 and in the Museum of the Yvardei Bashkir Cavalry Division, Upheli, Ulit Levitana, the biography was prepared by:.