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Yevgeny Alexandrovich Nikonov ((ロシア語:Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Ни́конов); December 18, 1920 – August 19, 1941, Harku, Estonia) was a Russian war hero martyred during the Soviet defense of Estonia in 1941. He is a holder of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union's highest award. ==Life and death== Nikonov was born on December 18, 1920, into an ethnically Russian peasant family in the village of Vasilyevka in what is now Stavropolsky District of Samara Oblast. He joined the navy in 1939 and served as a torpedo electrician on the destroyer leader ''Minsk'' attached to the Soviet Baltic Fleet. Following the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union, Nikonov and many other Baltic Fleet sailors were deployed as emergency naval infantry. Nikonov fought in the defense of Tallinn (August 5–28, 1941), the main base of the Baltic Fleet. While engaged in reconnaissance near the town of Keila on August 19, he was seriously wounded and captured. Despite being tortured, Nikonov refused to give his captors any military information, for which the Germans doused him with gasoline and burned him alive. On April 19, 1943, Baltic Fleet commander Vice–Admiral Vladimir Tributs ordered that Torpedo Electrician Yevgeny Nikonov forever be listed as a member of the ''Minsks active crew. (This tradition continues today; although the ''Minsk'' was long ago scrapped, Yevgeny Nikonov is always listed on the active personnel roster of a Baltic Fleet training unit.) Nikonov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on September 3, 1957. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yevgeny Nikonov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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