Akadil Sukhanbaev

He was born in 1920 in Sverdlov district of Zhambyl region and died in Poland in 1944.

Hero of the Soviet Union (March 24, 1945). After graduating from a rural school, he worked on a collective farm. 1941 Joined the Red Army. He was part of the 1st battalion of the 628th Grodnensk Red Rifle Regiment of the 174th Borisovsk Red Rifle Division. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. In the battle for the Polish village called "Stzeltsowizna", he covered the embrasure of the machine gun with his body, repeating the indelible feat of the legendary Alexander Motrosov. The kolkhoz where he was born and the school he attended are named after Batyr. A monument to the hero has been erected in the collective farm center.

He did his feat on July 31, 1944 in Poland, in the battle for the village of Strzewicz, in front of thousands of soldiers.

According to the nomination paper for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union kept in the Museum of the Armed Forces of the CIS, the division commander of the infantry battalion, Akadil Sukhanbaev, blocked the enemy machine gun, which was preventing the soldiers from advancing, at a crucial moment and stopped the fire.

At that moment, his bravery and name spread throughout the front, and he raised the soldiers to the attack as a slogan. Later, when the war ended, the body was exhumed by order of the commander of the 31st army, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel-general Vasily Vasilievich Glagolev, brought from Poland to the beautiful city of Lithuania, and buried with great military rites.

The fact that so much respect was shown to the Kazakh soldier despite the difficult times when the battle was in full swing shows that his bravery played an important role in the history of the war.

A portrait of A. Sukhanbayev is also hanging in the ranks of the liberation fighters in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Belarusians especially appreciate the bravery of our brother Akadil, who was the first to enter the city of Grodno, where the enemy was strongly fortified, with his unit.

One street in the city is named after a Kazakh hero. A commemorative plaque has been installed to the vocational school on this street.

There is also a special cape in the school museum. After the war, the commander V.V. Glagolev, who served as the commander of the landing forces and was tragically killed in 1974, is also named after the streets of his native city of Kaluga and Moscow. He always took care of honoring the name and valor of the brave soldier of the military formations he commanded.

A month and a half after his heroic deed, even before he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (the Decree was issued in March 1945), on September 20, 1944, by decision number 74 of the Sverdlov (now Baizak) District Council of Workers' Deputies, Akadil Sukhanbayev's personal weapon, named after the high school he attended and a member of the "Karasu" collective, was sent to Moscow. Exhibited in the Museum of Forces. His heroism is highly valued not only in Kazakhstan, but also in Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania.

In 2005, our President N.A. Nazarbayev participated in the opening ceremony of the monument depicting the moment of his bravery in the city of Taraz and gave a speech. Every year on July 31, a flower-laying ceremony is held at the monument of the hero.

A rural district is named after him in the Baizak district, there are streets named after him in the village of Sarykemer, Taraz, Almaty, Grodno, Republic of Belarus.

Currently, a monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Agadil Sukhanbayev has been erected in Baizak district of Taraz city. The concrete monument, located in front of the secondary school of Zhakash village, Baizak district, consists of a bust standing on a pyramid-like pedestal. The height of the bust is 0.8 m, the base is 1.8 m. Two memorial marble slabs are mounted on the top of the pedestal. In one, the name and date, month, and year of life are engraved, and in the other, in the Kazakh language, A. of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR. The text of the decision to award the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Sukhambaev after his death (1945) was written.