Allegiance Soviet Union Name Aleksandr Kosmodemyansky Awards | Rank Senior lieutenant Years of service 1942-1945 Service/branch Red Army | |
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Unit 42nd Guards Heavy Tank Brigade
350th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment Battles/wars World War II
East Prussian Offensive Died April 13, 1945, East Prussia Battles and wars East Prussian Offensive, World War II | ||
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Космодемья́нский; July 27, 1925 – April 13, 1945) was a first lieutenant and a hero of the Soviet Union, who was bestowed this title posthumously after having been killed during World War II during the capture of the settlement of Vierbrüderkrug, in the Kaporner Heath near Metgethen, just west of Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany.
He was the brother of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
The settlement of imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo in Kaliningrad Oblast was renamed after him in 1956. The minor planet 1977 Shura was named in his honour, while 1793 Zoya and 2072 Kosmodemyanskaya were named for his sister and for his mother, Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, respectively.
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