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243:. During the Soviet period Rakhimov was considered national hero, as he was the first Red Army general officer from Uzbekistan. Metro stations, streets, schools and other places in Uzbekistan were named after Rakhimov. However, these were all renamed during 2010 and 2011 as part of a campaign by
294:. With the regiment, he served successively as commander of the machine gun squadron, assistant regimental chief of staff, and chief of the regimental school. Rakhimov transferred to become chief of staff of the 42nd Uzbek Cavalry Regiment, stationed in Samarkand, in November 1936. During the
267:, becoming a student at the Baku Joint Military School. After graduating in August 1925, he was appointed a platoon leader in the Separate Uzbek Cavalry Battalion, and held the same position in the 1st Uzbek Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Uzbek Cavalry Brigade from 1927, stationed in
322:, the German invasion of the Soviet union, on 22 June 1941, the division and its corps were sent to the front. In July, the corps was broken up and the division became the 104th Separate Tank Division, with Rakhimov's unit being renamed the 104th Motor Rifle Regiment. With the
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to a working-class family; his father was an ethnic Kazakh and his mother was an ethnic Uzbek. In early childhood he was poor and spent several years in an orphanage. He became a farmworker, and later worked at a textile factory in
Tashkent.
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457:, the division broke through German lines on the outskirts of the city during 16 February. The division's attacks distracted the German garrison, allowing other divisions to capture the city on 22 February. During the
298:, Rakhimov was dismissed from the Red Army in July 1938 and imprisoned. He was released in October 1940, reinstated in the Red Army, and appointed deputy commander of the 9th Motor Rifle Regiment of the
334:. Rakhimov was severely wounded in action near the village of Pustysheva on 1 August and was hospitalized until mid-October. He was appointed commander of the 1149th Rifle Regiment of the
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announced that the monument to
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