Ruzi Azimov[a] (22 September 1925 — 2006) was an Uzbek soldier in the Red Army during World War II who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Azimov was born on 22 September 1925 to an Uzbek peasant family in Chukatepa village, located in present-day Kyrgyzstan.

With an incomplete secondary education, he worked as an accountant on a kolkhoz and was a member of the Komsomol.

[1][2][3] Ha arrived at the 1st Baltic Front on 3 June 1944 and distinguished himself in battle on 23 June 1944 near the village of Kozonogovo in Belarus, encouraging his comrades to go on with an attack against enemy forces.

On 22 July 1944 he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.