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Geroyu Sovetskogo Soyuza Azhimovu Tulebayu Hadzhibraevichu

Tulebai Khadjibraevich Azhimov was born on April 5, 1921 in the village of Mumra in the Astrakhan region. In the early 1930s, the family was dispossessed, exiled to the Surgut district, to the village of Cherny Mys. The boy graduated from elementary school, worked in the fishing artel of the Verny Put collective farm. Later he met Zinaida Ivanovna Anuchina here. In January 1941, they got married, and in April the couple had a son, Valentin.

The young man was called to the front in 1942. He participated in the Stalingrad offensive, the liberation of the cities of Staraya Russa, Orel, Bryansk, Central and Western Belarus, Western Ukraine and Poland, and rose to the rank of corporal of the 862nd Infantry Regiment of the 197-1 Infantry Division.

During the liberation of the Polish city of Krasnostav on July 24, 1944, he killed 15 Nazis.

The brave soldier was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal No. 4539 on September 23, 1944.

The war was too hard for him: at the front, he received news of his son's death and an erroneous notification of his wife's death. At the same time, a funeral service came to his family in Surgut - Tulebai Azhimov was officially considered dead. The confusion in the documents drastically changed his life - he did not return home, but went to Alma-Ata, served as a commander of a fire department.

He passed away on February 14, 1988, and was buried at the Central Cemetery of Almaty

Busts of Tulebai Azhimov were installed in Surgut and Khanty-Mansiysk on May 9, 2005.