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Years of service
  
1986—1988

Commands held
  
Squad

Name
  
Vyacheslav Alexandrov

Awards
  
(posthumous)

Rank
  
Guards Junior Sergeant


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Allegiance
  
Soviet Airborne (1986—1988)

Battles/wars
  
Soviet war in Afghanistan *Battle for Hill 3234

Died
  
January 8, 1988, Afghanistan

Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Alexandrov (Russian: Вячеслав Александрович Александров) (January 4, 1968 — January 8, 1988) was a Guards Junior Sergeant and squad commander in the 9th airborne company, 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, 40th Army.

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During the Battle for Hill 3234, Junior Sergeant Alexandrov was leading a paratrooper gun crew for an NSV 12.7mm heavy machine gun. Junior Sergeant Alexandrov used the heavy machine gun to repulse an unexpected, overwhelming mujahideen attack and cover the movement of his fellow paratroopers into better defensive positions. In the course of doing so, Junior Sergeant Alexandrov was killed. For his actions and calmness under fire, Guards Junior Sergeant Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Alexandrov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

References

Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Alexandrov Wikipedia


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