20 January
In January 1990 troops entered Baku — the origin of the Day of National Mourning.
20-yanvar.tut.az
Person
Azi Aslanov
The tank general from Lankaran, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
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In brief
Azi Aslanov was born in Lankaran in 1910. In the Second World War he commanded a tank brigade and corps, fighting at Stalingrad and in the Belarusian operations.
He was mortally wounded near Priekule in Latvia in January 1945. His first Hero star came in 1942; the second was awarded posthumously in 1991.
On the site
- 01The pathFrom Lankaran to command
- 02FrontsStalingrad, Belarus, the Baltics
- 03DocumentsCitations and orders
- 04MemoryMonuments, streets, museums
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