Aleksandr Kosmodemyansky

Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky was a Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union, who was bestowed this title posthumously after having been killed in World War II during the capture of the settlement of Vierbrüderkrug, in the Kaporner Heath near Metgethen, just west of Königsberg, East Prussia, Nazi Germany. He was the brother of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.