Abubachir Chuts

Abubachir Chuts (Adyghe: ШІуцІэ Батырбый ыкъо Абубэчыр; 1912 – March 28, 1944) was a Soviet Circassian seaman and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

Memorials The Hero's name is engraved in gold letters in the Hall of Glory at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Victory Park, Moscow. He is buried in a mass grave in the city of Mykolaiv in the Square of the 68 Paratroopers. In Mykolaiv, a People's Museum of Combat Glory of Naval Marines was opened, a monument was erected, and a street was named in their honor. Streets in the auls of Panakhes, Takhtamukay, and Afipsip are named after him. In the aul of Panakhes, Secondary School No. 7 is named after the Hero, and a monument honoring him was erected on its grounds.

Biography He was born in 1912 in the aul of Panakhes in the Kuban Oblast (now in the Takhtamukaysky District of the Republic of Adygea) to a Circassian peasant family. After graduating from primary school, he worked on a kolkhoz as a shepherd. He was later elected as a member of the kolkhoz board. He served in the Soviet Navy starting in 1941. Called up from the reserve, he was assigned to the naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet and joined the active army in June 1941. He fought in the 325th Naval Infantry Battalion and participated in the battles at Malaya Zemlya near Novorossiysk. In May 1943, Seaman Chuts was assigned to the newly formed 384th Independent Naval Infantry Battalion of the Black Sea Fleet. In the fall of 1943, he participated in amphibious landing operations in the cities along the Sea of Azov coast: Taganrog, Mariupol, and Osipenko (now Berdyansk). For the heroism he displayed during the Mariupol landing, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class. This was followed by combat on the Kinburn Spit and the liberation of the settlements of Aleksandrovka, Bogoyavlenskoye (now Zhovtneve), and Shirokaya Balka in the Kherson Oblast.…Citește mai mult