Asaf Abdrakhmanov


Asaf Kutdusovich Abdrakhmanov was a Soviet naval figure of Tatar ethnicity and a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Biography

Abdrakhmanov was born on December 20, 1918 in Agryz, which is now located in Tatarstan. He grew up in a village in Agryzsky District and after graduating from junior high school and the Aviation Technical School in Kazan, Abdrakhmanov worked as a technician at an aircraft factory.
Abdrakhmanov joined the Soviet Navy in 1939 and in 1942 he graduated from the Higher Naval College. After finishing training, Lieutenant Abdrakhmanov joined the Black Sea Fleet and served aboard Motor boats. He was in charge of a detachment of three Motor torpedo boats when the Soviet Navy raided Mariupol one night.
In November 1943, during the Kerch–Eltigen Operation, Abdrakhmanov landed the first assault troops onto the Crimean side of the Kerch Strait and delivered ammunition and troops. On January 22, 1944 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and a Gold Star for his courage and heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
From 1964 to 1973, Abdrakhmanov was the commander of a "monitoring ship" ) named Suchan, one of the Soviet Navy's signals monitoring vessels involved with missile testing. .
He retired from his naval duties in 1973 and lived in Sevastopol for the remainder of his life, where he died on September 3, 2000. Today there is a memorial plaque outside the house he lived in Sevastopol.

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