he led the 35th Guards Tank Brigade from Stalingrad through Borisovo, Vileyka, and Minsk to Vilnius and Riga, and participated in the battles of Rostov and Taganrog. His brigade liberated the town of Pleshinitsy. Aslanov was famous for his "thrust from flank" technique, which involved launching an attack by heading straight toward the enemy, while other Soviet troops were sent to attack from the sides. Death On January 24, 1945, near Priekule in the Liepāja District in Latvia during a reconnaissance, Aslanov was seriously wounded and died five and a half hours later on the battlefield. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, for his leadership of the Tank Brigade. Awards and honors Aslanov received his first star in 1943 for his performance at Stalingrad. The second was supposed to be given for the crossing of the Berezina river, under the recommendation of General of the Army Ivan Chernyakhovsky, but he received it posthumously, 46 years later, in 1991, after a special appeal by Azerbaijani intelligentsia to Mikhail Gorbachev. Wound stripe A subway station, school, oil tanker and a streets in Baku, Imishli and Volgograd, monument in Vialejka were named after him. The village in Agstafa region carries his name and his house museum functions in Lankaran. A special granite memorial plate was constructed in memory of him on Mamayev Kurgan. The bust of Hazi Aslanov was unveiled in the settlement of Baku named after him. The Army Ideological and Cultural Center of the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan is named after Aslanov. Gallery References Герои Советского Союза: Краткий биографический словарь (Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary). V.1. Moscow: Voenizdat, 1987. Золотые Звезды Азербайджана. Баку, 1975. 1910 births 1945 deaths People from Lankaran People from Baku Governorate Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet major generals Azerbaijani generals People of the Soviet invasion of Poland Soviet military personnel of the Winter War Soviet military personnel of World War II from Azerbaijan Azerbaijani military personnel killed in action Soviet military personnel killed in World War II Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner Recipients of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky Recipients of the Medal "For Courage" (Russia) Recipients of the Order of the Red Star