Pyotr Shelepov

Pyotr Emelyanovich Shelepov (Russian: Пётр Емельянович Шелепов; 14 July 1920 – 3 September 1983) was a Red Army man and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Shelepov was awarded the title for his actions in the Berlin Offensive, in which he and others captured a height and then held it against several counterattacks.

[1] Shelepov was born on 14 July 1920 in the village of Bogdano-Verbky in Yekaterinoslav Governorate, now in Synelnykove Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, in a peasant family of Russian ethnicity.

[1][3] Shelepov fought in World War II from June 1941 following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

On 20 April, during the crossing of the West Oder near Kołbaskowo, Shelepov and other soldiers captured German trenches.