Hunan Avetisyan
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| Native name | Հունան Ավետիսյան Уна́н Мкрти́чович Аветися́н |
| Born |
20 July 1914 Tsav, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Syunik Province, Republic of Armenia) |
| Died | 16 September 1943 (aged 29) Krasnodar Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russian Federation) |
| Allegiance |
 Soviet Union
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| Service/ |
 Red Army
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| Years of service | 1942–1943 |
| Rank | Senior sergeant |
| Unit | 390th Rifle Regiment 89th Rifle Division 18th Army North Caucasus Front |
| Battles/wars |
World War II Battle of the Caucasus |
| Awards |
Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin |
Hunan Avetisyan (Armenian: Հունան Ավետիսյան, Russian: Уна́н Мкрти́чович Аветися́н; 20 July 1913 – 16 September 1943) was a Soviet Red Army senior sergeant from the 89th Rifle Division who sacrificed his life by covering the embrasure of a German machine gun pillbox with his body so that his fellow soldiers could keep moving against the enemy in the Novorossiysk-Taman Operation of the Battle of the Caucasus. He was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and Order of Lenin in recognition of his sacrifice by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in May 1944.
Hunan Avetisyan was born to an Armenian family in Tsav, a village of the Armenian Erivan Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Syunik Province, Republic of Armenia) on 2 May 1913. His parents were peasants and he grew up in the local area, where he received primary education. He worked in the agriculture sector and was employed at a sovkhoz at the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
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