Memorial Day of the Tajik Hero in Kyiv

On May 3, 2024, the Embassy of the Republic of Tajikistan in Ukraine held a mourning event at the Baikove cemetery in Kyiv in honor of the memory of the son of Tajikistan and the Hero of the Soviet Union, Saidkul Turdiev.

After the ceremony of laying flowers and reading part of the Holy Quran at the grave of Saidkul Turdiev, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Tajikistan to Ukraine, Davlatali Nazrizoda told the audience about the participation of Tajik officers and soldiers in the Great Patriotic War and their heroism on the battlefield. The ambassador said that during the Great Patriotic War, out of the one and a half million population of Tajikistan, almost 300 thousand people were mobilized for the war, of which almost 70 thousand died on the battlefield.

The Tajik diplomat noted that Saidkul Turdiev was one of the deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR who received these powers in 1938 at the first elections, and when the war began, he was the deputy people's commissar of agriculture of Tajikistan and was sent to the front of his own free will. In October 1943, he and his company crossed the Dnieper, took command of the battalion in the battles near Kyiv, and died heroically.

The funeral event was attended by representatives of the Tajik diaspora and Ukrainian representatives, including the Deputy Mufti of Muslims of Ukraine and the head of the administration of the Baykovе cemetery.