Background
Dzotov Lazar Alexandrovich was born in 1920 in Dur-Dur village, Digor District, North Ossetian ASSR (now Dur-Dur village, Digor District, North Ossetia-Alania).
Dzotov Lazar Alexandrovich was born in 1920 in Dur-Dur village, Digor District, North Ossetian ASSR (now Dur-Dur village, Digor District, North Ossetia-Alania).
The Dzotov platoon machine-gunners acted as part of the advanced battalion regiment. In the last battle he had to combine two machine-gun platoons and a group of autoriflemen.Dzotov was fatally wounded in the chest during this attack. After Dzotov’s death a testamentary letter “To my people” was found, which became known to all division fighters.