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 Aslan Vezirov (1910-1988) - fought against the German fascism, was awarded the title of the hero of the Soviet Union.
Aslan Vezirov was born in 1910 in the village of Zumurkhach. In 1928-1930 he studied in the military engineering schools in Leningrad (present-day St-Petersburg) and Moscow.
Vezirov was serving in Ukraine, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Therefore, he fought against the fascists from the very beginning of the war, having covered a battlefield from Min. Vody in the Caucasus to the Elba river in Germany. Throughout the war he fought in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts, Caucasus Front, 1st Baltic and 2nd Byelorussian Fronts.
When serving in the 2nd Byelorussian Front, the commander-in-chief of the Front Marshall Rokosovsky appointed him the commander of the 1st military engineering brigade. For his exemplary fulfillment of the battle tasks colonel Aslan Vezirov was awarded the highest title - the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Vezirov retired from the Army in 1947. From 1965 till his death in 1988, he was the chairman of the Azerbaijan War Veterans Committee.
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