Aliyah Moldagulova

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Aliyah Moldagulova on a Kazakh postage stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the war (1995)

Alija Moldagulowa ( Kazakh - Cyrillic Әлия Нұрмұхамедқызы Молдағұлова ; Russian Алия Нурмухамбетовна Молдагулова * 25. October 1925 in Bulak Hobdinsk , Aktobe , Kazakhstan SSR ; † 14. January 1944 in Nowosokolniki , Pskov Oblast ) was a Soviet soldier. She was honored for her work as a sniper in World War II as the " Heroine of the Soviet Union " and was the only Central Asian woman besides Manschuk Mametowa to receive this award.

Life

Moldagulova lost her parents as a child and grew up in her uncle's family. The uncle's family moved first to Moscow in 1935 and then to Leningrad , where the uncle placed them in a children's home in 1939. In March 1942 the children's home was evacuated to a village in Yaroslavl Oblast due to bombing . In October 1942 she began training as a pilot, but three months later she volunteered for service in the Red Army .

In May 1943 she was one of the first to be trained in the new training center for female snipers in Moscow. Two months later, she and colleagues from the Sniper Academy of the 54th Infantry of the 22nd Army on the 2nd Baltic Front joined. During her service she killed 78 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht , according to some reports , 91 according to others. In January 1944 she was wounded in a close combat in Novosokolniki and died of a second wound.

Appreciations

On June 4, 1944, she was posthumously awarded the title "Heroine of the Soviet Union". Also after her death she received the Order of Lenin .

Kazakhstan issued a postage stamp with her portrait in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of Victory Day . There are statues in her honor in Nur-Sultan (Astana until 2019) and in Novosokolniki, among others .

filming

The film Sniper (1986) directed by Bolotbek Shamschiev is a film adaptation of Moldagulova's life. She is portrayed in it by the actress Aiturgan Temirova .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christa Hämmerle, Gender Politics in Central Asia: Historical Perspectives and Current Living Conditions of Women . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2008, p. 25 .
  2. ↑ a b c Alia Moldagulova. In: History of Kazakhstan. Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ Henry Sakaida: Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941-45 . Osprey Publishing, 2012, pp. 8 .
  4. ↑ Snipers. In: Filmdienst . Retrieved April 14, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Moldagulova, Aliyah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet female soldier
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulak Hobdinsk , Aktobe , Kazakhstan SSR
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1944
Place of death Novosokolniki , Pskov Oblast