Biography Harun Bogatyrev

Bogatyrev Kharun Umarovich graduated from elementary school, worked for hire. In the year he graduated from the co-school school in the city of Batalpashinsk now Cherkessk, after which he worked as the head of the vengeance of a reader in his native village for two years. In gg. A member of the CPSU B with G. died on July 10. was buried in Karachayevsk near the House of Soviets.

In the Red Army, from June 1, participation in wars, military conflicts. The Great Patriotic War from October was wounded 16 times, 7 times burned in tanks. Service in the Red Army. From June 1, he graduated with honors. From G. in the city, he took part in the parade of troops on Red Square annually.

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Captain Bogatyrev turned to the command with a request to send to the front. But he was appointed deputy battalion commander to the Kazan Tank School. Since October in January - February, in July - August, the battalion of Major Bogatyrev was particularly distinguished here. During the battles from July 19, he drove a battalion to a deep raid, in the Troitskoye area, where he destroyed more than 30 German officers, 3 motorcycles, 2 cars and 3 transport vehicles.

In subsequent battles, the battalion destroyed: 9 heavy tiger tanks, 7 self -propelled guns, 6 medium tanks, 5 field and anti -tank guns, 9 mortars, 13 machine guns, 3 ammunition warehouses, 11 transport vehicles, to enemy soldiers and officers. The crew of its tank destroyed: 2 medium tanks, 1 self -propelled gun, 2 field guns, 3 mortars, 2 cars, and up to 60 enemy soldiers and officers.

He also organized the interaction of infantry and tanks on the battlefield, as well as the evacuation of 8 hit tanks. The battalion commander himself personally knocked out 6 heavy tanks. In connection with the illness of the commander, Bogatyrev commanded the entire tank brigade for some time. He was wounded twice near Kursk, but after a short time he returned to duty again, was treated at the front.

By mid -September, in the summer of G., upon attack on Lviv, he was seriously wounded, but remained in service. Soon, as a representative of the expelled people, he was still withdrawn from the front at the disposal of the General Staff. But Marshal Fedorenko, commander of the armored troops, allowed Bogatyrev to continue service in the army after treatment. In April, deputy commander of the Guards.

From August to the end of G. C - First Deputy Head of the Tashkent Tank School. He lived with his family in Leningrad now - St. Petersburg, then in Karachaevsk. Military titles: lieutenant, senior lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel. Medals: “For Military Merit” in his homeland by the name of the first hero-Karachaean, a school and a street and a park in the city of Karachayevsk are named.

In Ust-Dzhegut and Karachayevsk, monuments were erected to the hero in the year. In Cherkessk in Alaley, there is a bust.