Aleksandr Pavlovich Min (Russian: Александр Павлович Мин; 1915 – 9 July 1944) was an officer in the Red Army and the first Korean awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

After completing his tenth grade of secondary school in 1932 he went on to attend the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, which he studied at from 1933 to 1937 before becoming a Russian language teacher on Putyatin Island.

[1][2] After graduating from the Ryazan Infantry School, Min was assigned to a construction battalion with the rank of private; there he participated in the Battle of Moscow.

Min again distinguished himself for bravery after he repelled five counterattacks, enabling the successful take over the Ukrainian village of Stary Koshary in Kovel on 4-5 July 1944.

His name is also carved in the list of fellow countrymen from Puyatin, Fokino in Primorsky Krai, who gave up their lives during World War II.