Zagitov Gazi Biography

VR reconstruction "Unknown Znamenets" on April 27, according to the orders of the commander of the Rifle Corps of the 3rd Shock Army of the I Belorussian Front, the commander of the Army cannon artillery brigade by Colonel A. Pisarev for the assault group of Captain V. Makov, sergeant Minin and senior sergeants A. Lisimenko, A. Bobrov and G. in the year of the 3rd year were allocated The Bire Medical School is drafted into the army.

He served in a platoon of optical intelligence of Art Division. In January, the year, as stated in the documents “One met 10 armed German reconnaissance soldiers. Acting boldly and decisively captured them and brought them to the squad of the artillery. ” The path to the last supporting point of the resistance of the German capital was blocked by a moat with water, cutting in two Koenigsplatz in two.

The senior sergeant Zagitov, under a continuous machine-gun-minometric fire, scouted the way in the evening, when, due to the light outbreaks of the bursting shells, dust and the thickening darkness, it was almost impossible to navigate, led the group through the moat, which allowed them to get to the walls of the Reichstag. After waiting for the approach of the fighters of the division of the division, Zagitov organized a soldier, and they broke through a massive door blocking the entrance to the building.

The Reichstag met them with pitch darkness and rupture roar. To tie the banner to the pole, Zagitov tore his handkerchief into the ribbons. So that the banner does not fall, the shaft to the sculpture "Goddess of Victory", crowning the Reichstag, tied the same ribbons from Zagitov’s handkerchief. " A few minutes after the hook of Victory, Gazi Zagita, was seriously wounded in the chest.

The bullet, breaking through the block of the medal "For Courage", passed in a centimeter from the heart. Zagitov was the first to burst into the Reichstag,-said in the award sheet signed by the commander of the corps, Major General Perenortkin and commander of the 3rd shock army, Colonel Kuznetsov General. For his courage, heroism and courage, manifested during the assault on the Reichstag, comrade Zagitov is worthy of conferring the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union." By order of the troops of the I Belorussian Front of May 18, senior sergeant Zagitov city He worked as a combine, a mechanic, was elected chairman of the village council.

He died in a car accident on August 23. Zagitov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In the year, in the village of Yanagush, the Gazi Zagitov historical and local history museum opened. His name is a street in the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan G.