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Lado Davydov, Assyrian Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945

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Lado Davydov, Assyrian Hero of the Soviet Union, 1945

Date
1945
MilitaryWorld WarPortrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Lado Shirinshayevich Davydov, aged about 21, in a Soviet tunic with the Gold Star of a Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in 1924 to Assyrian parents in Vladikavkaz, he received the title on 22 July 1944 for actions crossing the Western Dvina in the Vitebsk region.

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Source

Heroes of the Country (warheroes.ru), biography by A. A. Simonov

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