Tarkhan Khordaev

Battalion Commander - Major

Unit: 3rd Tank Battalion, 80th Tank Regiment, 90th Guards Tank Division, 41st Combined Arms Army, Central Military District

Cargo ID: #289

Full Name: Tarkhan Rasulovich Khordaev

Russian Name: Хордаев Тархан Расулович

Date of Birth: July 20, 1987 (age: 35 years)

Place of Birth: Mozdok, North Ossetia–Alania Republic, Russia

Place of Death: Unknown (Died in a tank)

Education: Kazan Higher Tank Command School (Graduated 2010)

Awards: Order of Courage (ph.), others under investigation

On July 2, 2022, during a special military operation in Ukraine, my mother’s former student, Major Khordaev Tarkhan Rasulovich, a native of my hometown of Mozdok, commander of the 3rd tank battalion of the 80th tank regiment of the Chelyabinsk region, Chebarkul, died heroically. Having learned about the death of her student, my mother was very upset, cried... She told what he was like.

Primary school student at Mozdok boarding school #1 Tarkhan Khordayev. An ordinary boy, smart, smiling, very inquisitive, with huge brown eyes. It was for the mischievous sparkle in his eyes that my mother called him a little mouse. Tarkhan, like many boys, loved active games and fairy tales. He was always at the center of events, always surrounded by friends and classmates, always with a smile on his face and a desire to help others. He carried these qualities into adulthood. After graduating from school, he chose the path of a military officer and entered the Kazan Higher Tank Command Red Banner School, which he graduated with success. He got married and raised two children.

From the first days of the SVO, Khordaev Tarkhan was in the combat zone. He was the Chief of Staff of a battalion of a tank regiment and acted as regimental commander. During the last battle, he destroyed two platoons, several firing points and two units of enemy heavy equipment. In this battle, commander Khordayev’s tank was hit and engulfed in flames. At that moment Tarkhan was not thinking about himself, he was saving the lives of his colleagues. He saved other people's lives at the cost of his own. Pulling his comrades out of the damaged car, he burned alive...