Pavlov, Yakov Fedotovich

Jacob Pavlov was born in the village of Krestovaya ^[1] , finished elementary school, worked in agriculture. In 1938, he was drafted into the Red Army . He met the Great Patriotic War in combat units in the area of Kovel , as part of the troops of the South-Western Front .

In 1942, Pavlov was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division, General A. I. Rodimtsev . He took part in defensive battles at the approaches to Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya. F. Pavlov was in the process of re-formation in the city of Kamyshin , where he was appointed commander of the machine-gun department of the 7th company. In September 1942 - in the battles for Stalingrad, performed reconnaissance missions.

On the evening of September 27, 1942, Pavlov received the combat mission of the company commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in the 4-storey building that overlooks the central square of Stalingrad - the square on January 9th . This building occupied an important tactical position. With three fighters (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Aleksandrov), he knocked the Germans out of the building and completely captured it. Soon the group received reinforcements, ammunition and telephone. Together with a platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders increased to 26 people. Not immediately managed to dig a trench and evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house.

The Germans constantly attacked the building with artillery and air bombs. But Pavlov avoided large losses and for almost two months did not let the enemy make his way to the Volga.

On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front launched a counteroffensive . On November 25, during the attack, Pavlov was wounded in the leg, was in the hospital, then was the gunner of the gun and the commander of the reconnaissance unit in the artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Byelorussian fronts, which included him to Stettin . He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. On June 17, 1945, Junior Lieutenant Yakov Pavlov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (Medal No. 6775). Pavlov was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946.

After demobilization, he worked in the city of Valdai, Novgorod region, was the third secretary of the district committee, graduated from the Higher Party School at the Central Committee of the CPSU. Three times elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the October Revolution . He repeatedly visited Stalingrad (now Volgograd ), met with the inhabitants of the city who survived the war and restored it from the ruins. In 1980, Ya. F. Pavlov was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the Hero-City of Volgograd”.

Pavlov is buried in the alley of the heroes of the Western cemetery of Veliky Novgorod .

• In Novgorod the Great, in a boarding school named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is the Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsy microdistrict, Beregovaya Street, 44).
• The name of the Hero is carried on the streets in Veliky Novgorod , Valdai , Yoshkar-Ola .

Cinema

• Battle of Stalingrad (1949) - Leonid Knyazev .
• Stalingrad (1989) - Sergey Garmash .

Computer games

• Yakov Pavlov is mentioned in the Call of Duty computer game in the Pavlov campaign.
• In the computer game Panzer Corps in the grand campaign of 42 years in the mission “Docks of Stalingrad” there is Pavlov's house, which protects the sergeant “Sergeant Pavlov”.
• Yakov Pavlov took part in the festival "Song-74".
• Jacob Pavlov appears in the game Sniper Elite .
• Pavlov's house is present in the computer game Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad.

• Pavlov's house .

• Pavlov, Yakov Fedotovich (Rus.) . The site " Heroes of the country ."
• TSB , 2nd Edition.
• Pavlov Ya. F. In Stalingrad - Stalingrad: Regional Book Publishing, 1951 .