Brothers of martyr who died for Azerbaijan arrived from Kazakhstan

April 20 will be 28 years since the heroic death of the son of the Kazakh people Yerbol Barymbekov Turekhan oglu at the front of the first Karabakh war. On this day the Azerbaijani brother-soldiers and Yerbol's native and cousin, who have arrived from Kazakhstan, together with the military attache of the Kazakh Embassy in Azerbaijan will visit the tomb on Alley Shehidov in Baku.

Turan reported about the military path of senior sergeant Y. Barymbekov in the article "Unknown Azerbaijani hero of the Kazakh nation" published on April 11, 2022. Officers who served with Yerbol in 776th military unit in the south of Karabakh told about the Kazakh guy who flew to Baku in 1994 to protect Azerbaijan from Armenian aggressors, and was accepted for service in our army.

While in army of Azerbaijan Yerbol started service as the scout, fought in Murovdag and Ter-Agderin zone. On May 2, 1993, in Baku, he was sent to serve in the 472nd reconnaissance battalion with which he participated in many operations of state importance. He was in command of reconnaissance group, 8 times he performed missions behind enemy lines.

After abolition of this military unit Yerbol was transferred to a separate special purpose battalion #776. In February 1994, the unit fought in the Terter-Agdara zone where Yerbol fought as commander of the reconnaissance group. In March 1994, a group of scouts was ambushed, Yerbol was seriously wounded while rescuing the group. He was transported to the Tartar hospital. However, without being healed, he returned to his military unit after learning that his friends had joined the fight.

In April 1994, the aggressor went on the offensive to occupy the Terter region. The military unit N776 fought heroically, foiling the enemy's plan. On April 15, commander-in-chief Heydar Aliyev marked the merit of this unit. And on April 20, in the battle, in rear of the enemy Yerbol was heroically lost.

It should be remembered that in 1992, 18-year-old Yerbol tried to enter Karaganda University, but failed, and was called up to serve in the Soviet paratrooper brigade in the town of Kokchegay. In 1993 it was already the army of Kazakhstan. He left it without telling anyone about his decision, after a conflict with an ensign. In his homeland they considered Yerbol to have left the army without permission, then - missing. The family wanted to believe that their son and brother was alive. 

The hero's parents had not lived till the day when an officer came to them from the military registry office and told them about the news from Baku: the veterans of the first Karabakh war in the capital of Azerbaijan are looking for Yerbol Barymbekov's relatives," Nurbol Barymbekov, the hero's brother, told Turan.

"The family hoped to the end that my brother was alive. My mother went to a fortune-teller.  In 1993, on May 7, Yerbol called home and said that he had been shot in the leg and was lying in a military hospital in Khanlar. He asked me to tell my mother not to worry. We tried to find him, applied to the Ministry of Defense, but at that time the searches did not lead to anything. There were no such contacts with Azerbaijan as there are now," the hero's brother Nurbol Barymbekov told Turan.

According to his comrades-in-arms, Yerbol was a fearless soldier. Thanks to the military unit in which he served, the Armenians failed to reach the Kurdamir highway to divide Azerbaijan into two parts and force the surrender. During one of the reconnaissance missions, a group of scouts with the participation of Yerbol was in the rear for 10 days, thanks to his ability to navigate in the woods, the group completed the task and came out to their own comrades when they already thought that the scouts were dead.

The duty of the officers of 776th military unit - Elchin Mammadov, Peserek Farzali, Saleh Aliyev, Rashid Aliyev and others, is to perpetuate the name of the hero - Yerbol Barymbekov. The last 2 years of the 20 years he lived, the Kazakh guy gave to Azerbaijan. "It is our duty to bring the truth about the heroic son of Kazakhstan buried in Shehid Alley in Baku to the Azerbaijani and Kazakh peoples. On behalf of the deputy political officer of the unit I express my gratitude to the Barymbekov family and all the brotherly Kazakh people for their help in our battles for Azerbaijan," said retired officer Saleh Aliyev.

The officers appealed to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry and other state agencies to award the hero posthumously with an order, a medal, assign his name to a school or a street in Azerbaijan. The officers' application is being considered in various instances.-