Shaaban Abash

Shaaban Abash
Shaaban Abash
Birth nameShaaban Amber-ipa Abash
Born1890
Adzyubzha, Sukhum Okrug, Russian Empire
Died1953
Adzyubzha, Abkhaz ASSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance Russian Empire
 Soviet Russia
 Soviet Union
Service / branchImperial Russian Army
Red Army
Years of service1903–1954
RankGefreiter
Battles / warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War
AwardsCross of St. George, 4th Class

Shaaban Abash - (Abkhaz: Шаабан Абаш; 1890 – 1953) was the rider of the Abkhazian hundreds of the Circassian cavalry regiment of the Caucasian native division during the First World War. Shaaban was afro-abkazian.[1]

  1. ^ "Many Africans Came to the Soviet Union During Turkish Rule (Afro-American 1973, - Part 2)". 27 November 2011.