Headline "The country must know the names of its heroes": November 8, 1941 with the reading "The Russians do not give up! " Ediga Hosan Androchaev blew himself up and the Germans who surrounded him with grenades. Hosan Andrukhaev was a poet, served as a political guide for a company of the 733rd Infantry Regiment. His legendary sentence was a response to the Germans' chants of "Russian surrender! ".

Headline "The country must know the names of its heroes": November 8, 1941 with the reading "The Russians do not give up! " Ediga Hosan Androchaev blew himself up and the Germans who surrounded him with grenades. Hosan Andrukhaev was a poet, served as a political guide for a company of the 733rd Infantry Regiment. His legendary sentence was a response to the Germans' chants of "Russian surrender! ".

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Hosan Androchaev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Diakovo, Lugansk People's Republic, Russia.

In October 1942, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Ilyin received a sniper rifle, on the butt of which the commander attached a metal plate with the inscription "In the name of the Hero of the Soviet Union Hosan Androchaev.

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