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Verkhnye Olshanets, which were captured before the division advanced to the defensive line between Height 217.4 and Dalnyaya Igumenka. On 24 July Kostitsyn and several staff officers were killed by a direct shell hit to the division command bunker. Buried in Novy Oskol, he was posthumously
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District of Militarized Railway Protection Troops, and in April 1932 became a battalion commander in the 5th Railway Regiment of the
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