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Potapov"s battery destroyed ten German tanks near the Ponyri railway station at the Battle of Kursk. Captain Potapov was killed during the battle on 8 July 1943. He was twenty-two years old and had been in the Red Army since 1938.
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Mikhail Potapov
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He had served in the artillery as an officer since graduating from the Moscow Artillery School in 1940 and had received the Order of the Red Banner and other decorations during his war service. He was posthumously named a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Gold Star and Order of Lenin on 7 August 1943.
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union