Bahatdin Mirzayev information

Bahatdin Shahveled oglu Mirzayev
Native name	Bahəddin Şahvələd oğlu Mirzəyev
Born	(1914-12-31)31 December 1914 Sulut, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	15 April 1987(1987-04-15) (aged 72) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army
Years of service	1936–38 1941–45
Rank	Captain
Unit	416th Rifle Division
Battles/wars	World War II Battle of the Caucasus Battle of the Dnieper Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive Vistula-Oder Offensive Battle of Berlin
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (2) Order of the Red Star

Bahatdin Shahveled oglu Mirzayev (Azerbaijani: Bahəddin Şahvələd oğlu Mirzəyev; 31 December 1914 – 15 April 1987) was an Azerbaijani Red Army captain and a Hero of the Soviet Union. During World War II, Mirzayev served as a battery commander in the 416th Rifle Division. During the Vistula–Oder Offensive, Mirzayev corrected the battery's fire and was wounded, reportedly enabling it to destroy multiple German firing points. On the next day his battery knocked out German artillery pieces which had been slowing the infantry's advance. Two days after the start of the offensive, his battery destroyed two German tanks and an armored personnel carrier, enabling the capture of the village. For his actions Mirzayev received the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 24 March 1945. He was seriously wounded in the Battle of Berlin and was discharged upon recovery. Postwar, Mirzayev worked as head of the militarized guard department at the Azerbaijan SSR Ministry of Communications.^[1]