Leonid Chigin
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Leonid Chigin
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Leonid Sergeyevich Chigin was a Red Army colonel and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Chigin served in the Red Army from the early 1930s as a junior officer in tank units, and was in a staff position when Operation Barbarossa began. After fighting in the Border Battles in the Baltics, he became commander of the 78th Tank Brigade in early 1942 and commanded it in the Battle for Velikiye Luki. Transferred to command the 113th Tank Brigade in April 1943, Chigin was killed leading the brigade
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2020-05-14T16:29:04Z
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2024-09-05T00:57:57Z
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