On the night of 23 September 1943 , Dachiev and his friend crossed the Dnieper in the vicinity of Nivki village , in Gomel . On the west bank , he located enemy defenses within a two-kilometer area and managed to successfully deliver the information to the regiment headquarters under heavy enemy fire . Dachiev 's actions allowed the entire division to cross the Dnieper on 26 September 1943 . For doing so he was declared a Hero of the Soviet Union on 15 January 1944 , just a few weeks before the repressions of Chechens and Ingush began . Throughout the remainder of the war he served as a platoon commander after graduating from the Novocherkassk Cavalry School with the rank of junior lieutenant
the repressions of Chechens and Ingush
Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush
Khansultan Dachiev