Viktor Zavalin (1921-1978) was a Red Army soldier from the Yaroslavl region who fought at Stalingrad, where he was badly wounded in October 1942. He later served in a mechanised corps and took part in the war against Japan. He was named Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944 and ended his service as a guards senior sergeant.
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