Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov

Soviet soldier, member of a famous tank crew

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1923

Place of Birth: Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1943

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Aleksei Fyodorovich Naumov (Russian: ??????? ????????? ??????; b.
1 March 1923, Yaroslavl – 21 January 1943) was a WWII Soviet tank commander.
Naumov graduated from the Chelyabinsk Tank School in November 1942 and quickly assigned to the Don Front to command a KV-1 heavy tank.
Attached to the 344th Tank Battalion, he and his crew distinguished themselves on 21 January 1943, during the final stages of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Soviet forces had been attempting to take the Pitomnik Airfield and the farmstead of Novaya Nadezhda, near Stalingrad.
When Naumov's crew ran out of ammunition, German soldiers poured gasoline on his tank and set it on fire, killing the entire crew.
When Soviet forces took Novaya Nadezhda, the remains of Naumov and his men were buried nearby.
Naumov himself was posthumously honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union.