Aleksey Polosin

Aleksey Ivanovich Polosin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Полосин; 1924 – 15 October 1943) was a Red Army sergeant, who was posthumously a Hero of the Soviet Union.

[1][2] Polosin was born in 1924 in Kazinka village, Sosnovsky District, Tambov Oblast to a peasant family.

In the Battle of the Dnieper, the division fought hard to expand the bridgehead on the right bank near Strakholesye.

[1] Polosin was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 10 January 1944.

[1][2][3][4] Hero of the Soviet Union citation In the offensive battle for the village of Strakholesye on 2 October 1943, as a squad leader of a reconnaissance platoon moving ahead of the infantry, [he] burst into a German battalion headquarters and in a fierce hand-to-hand fight singlehandedly bayoneted a German major and two captains, retrieved valuable documents, and blew up a staff car with a grenade.