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Alexander Matrosov
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Hero of the Soviet Union (1924–1943)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Russia
- Active from
- 1979
Discography
- Akkordeon2006
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 7
- Total plays
- 40
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,741x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,720x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,181x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,111x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,570x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1924-02-05 ) 5 February 1924, Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro ), Ukraine SSR , Soviet Union / disputed
- Died
- 27 February 1943 (1943-02-27) (aged 19), Chernushki, Loknyansky District , Pskov Oblast , Soviet Union
- Allegiance
- Soviet Union
- Branch
- Red Army
- Service years
- 1942–1943
- Rank
- Private
- Unit
- 2nd Separate Rifle Battalion
- Conflicts
- World War II †
- Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov.jpg
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- Alexander Matrosov
- date of death
- 1943-02-27
- date of birth
- 1924-02-05
- name in native language
- Мөхәмәтйәнов Шакирйән Юныс улы
- birth name
- Шакирьян Юнусович Мухамедьянов
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Matrosov on a 1944 stamp Alexander Matveyevich Matrosov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Матве́евич Матро́сов February 5, 1924 – February 27, 1943) was a Soviet infantry soldier during the Second World War, posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union reportedly for blocking a German machine-gun with his body.
His official Soviet biography states he was born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipro). However an evidence emerged that both his name and place of birth were invented by him while he was a street child. There are several versions about his origins.