Minnigali Khabibullovich Gubaydullin

Minnigali Khabibullovich Gubaydullin was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and a Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born on 8 March 1921 into a peasant family living in the village of Urshakbashkaramaly in the Bashkir ASSR. After completing seven years of school he worked on a collective farm, then at the Ashinsky Metallurgical Plant and studied at an oil technical school in Baku. In 1941 he was drafted into the army. In 1942, after an accelerated course at a military school, he was sent to the North Caucasian Front.

 

In September 1943 Gubaydullin showed exceptional courage and bravery in the battles on the Molochnaya River. Despite suffering two wounds, he did not leave the battlefield. On 8 March 1944, during offensive operations in the Kherson region, Guards Lieutenant Gubaydullin, carrying out an order to capture a kurgan, performed a heroic deed by covering the embrasure of an enemy pillbox with his body. For this heroic act he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 3 June 1944). Gubaydullin was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Star.