| Aleksandr Kosmodemyansky | |
| Birth Name: | Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1925 |
| Birth Place: | Osino-Gay, near of Tambov, Soviet Union |
| Death Place: | The Kaporner Heath near Metgethen, East Prussia, Nazi Germany |
| Placeofburial: | Novodevichy Cemetery |
| Branch: | Red Army |
| Branch Label: | Branch |
| Serviceyears: | 1942–1945 |
| Rank: | Senior lieutenant |
| Unit: | 42nd Guards Heavy Tank Brigade 350th Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment |
| Battles: | |
| Awards: | Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Patriotic War (2) |
| Alma Mater: | Ulyanovsk Tank School |
| Relations: | Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya (sister) |
Aleksandr Anatolyevich Kosmodemyansky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Космодемья́нский; 27 July 1925 – 13 April 1945) was a Soviet military officer and Hero of the Soviet Union, who was bestowed this title posthumously after having been killed in World War II during the capture of the settlement of Vierbrüderkrug, in the Kaporner Heath near Metgethen, just west of Königsberg, East Prussia, Nazi Germany.
He was the brother of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
The settlement of imeni Alexandra Kosmodemyanskogo in Kaliningrad Oblast was renamed after him in 1956. The minor planet 1977 Shura was named in his honour,[1] while 1793 Zoya and 2072 Kosmodemyanskaya were named for his sister and for his mother, Lyubov Kosmodemyanskaya, respectively.[2] [3]