Hunan Avetisyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hunan Avetisyan

Hero of the Soviet Union

Date of Birth: 02-May-1913

Place of Birth: Tsav, Syunik Province, Armenia

Date of Death: 16-Sep-1943

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.