Ivan Pozharsky (russian: Иван Алексеевич Пожарский; 27 August 1905 – 7 August 1938) was a Soviet military commissar and posthumous Hero of Soviet Union. He was born in 1905 in

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, in the Ardatovsky Uyezd of the Simbirsk Governorate of the

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(now Mordovia,

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). Pozharsky joined the

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in 1926. He served in the

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as a military commissar. He died in Battle of Lake Khasan near Zaozyornaya Sopka and

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after being wounded while rallying his men to attack. Pozharsky continued to fight despite his wounds and died at the height of the battle. He was buried in

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(now

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and

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in Primorsky Krai, and

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s in a few

n cities, were named after him.

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1905 births 1938 deaths People from Mordovia People from Ardatovsky Uyezd (Simbirsk Governorate) Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet Army officers Heroes of the Soviet Union Recipients of the Order of Lenin {{hero-USSR-stub