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Cafer Osman Topçı (Russian: Джафер Осман Топчи, romanized: Dzhafer Osman Topchi, Crimean Tatar: Джафер Осман Топчы; 10 October 1921 – 16 October 1944) was a Crimean Tatar officer in the Red Army during World War II. Wounded six times, he distinguished himself in combat many times and was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on two separate occasions for it, but never received it.
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Cafer Osman Topçı (Russian: Джафер Осман Топчи, romanized: Dzhafer Osman Topchi, Crimean Tatar: Джафер Осман Топчы; 10 October 1921 – 16 October 1944) was a Crimean Tatar officer in the Red Army during World War II. Wounded six times, he distinguished himself in combat many times and was nominated for the title Hero of the Soviet Union on two separate occasions for it, but never received it.
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Early life Topçı was born to a Crimea Tatar family in Bakhchisarai, Crimea in 1921. A member of the Komsomol since 1937, and he subsequently admitted to the Communist Party in 1942. Having been drafted into the Red Army in March 1940, he served in military for the remainder of his life.
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World War II Having been fighting on the frontlines against the German invasion of the Soviet Union since the first day of the war, he saw action on the Southwestern, Stalingrad, Don, 3rd Ukrainian, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. Wounded in action for the first time on 3 September 1941, he soon returned to combat, and went on to join the 610th Rifle Regiment upon its formation in March 1942. There he quickly rose up through the ranks, becoming commander of a platoon of machine gunners, and by 1943 he held the rank of captain and was in command of a battalion within the regiment. On the night of 13–14 May 1944 he led an offensive charge that resulted in the capture of two lines of trenches and elimination of the German bridgehead on that part of the Dniester river in the Dorotskoye area. Later from 14 to 21 May they faced a barrage of German counterattacks that left them encircled, but Topçı refused to retreat despite being cut off from supply reinforcements, and went on to lead his battalion in repulsing the multiple daily attacks. They then broke through the encirclement on the night of 20–21 May, taking out four…
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Awards Order of the Red Banner (23 July 1944) Order of Alexander Nevsky (4 November 1944) Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (31 December 1944) Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class (24 September 1943) Medal "For Courage" (28 September 1942 and 30 December 1942)