Pavlov, Peter Pavlovich

Born on June 25, 1925 in the village of Stary Maklaush of the Klyavlinsky District, now Samara Region, into a peasant family. Mordvin. He graduated from 7 classes. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1946. For two years he worked on the collective farm named after Voikov, joined the Komsomol.

He was drafted into the Red Army in February 1943 by the Klyavlinsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Kuibyshev region. After training in the airborne units, Komsomolets Pyotr Pavlov arrived in June 1944 on the Karelian Front as part of the 37th Guards Rifle Corps. Here, the Red Army guard Pyotr Pavlov served as a shooter in the 300th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 99th Guards Rifle Division.

On the first day of the offensive, June 21, 1944, after lengthy aviation and artillery preparation, the first group of Komsomol guards from the 300th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 99th Guards Rifle Division was the first to cross Svir . At the end of the artillery preparation, the daredevils had to go to the enemy shore on rafts and boats with stuffed animals mounted on them. It was assumed that the enemy, having taken a false crossing for a military landing, would open fire on the daredevils and thereby reveal his firepower.

Among the first volunteers, the Red Armyman Pyotr Pavlov volunteered to perform this combat mission. At eleven o'clock in the afternoon Pavlov, along with other guardsmen, launched his raft on the water and, pushing him, took a direction to the northern bank of the river.

It was hard to push the raft, it carried it away to the side, great physical effort was required to withstand the given direction. The enemy opened strong fire on the brave from the northern shore. Shells and mines were torn from all sides, covering them with water fountains ... By the middle of the river it became clear that slow-moving and poorly controlled rafts were under enemy fire, two rafts were already destroyed by a direct hit by a projectile ... A resourceful guardsman leaves the raft, leaving him to be "eaten" enemy artillery, and swim, without releasing a machine gun and grenades, gets to the northern bank of the river. One at a time daredevils get ashore. After a short reconnaissance conducted by Yunosov and Bekbosunov, the entire group concentrated and quickly broke into the coastal trench, suppressing the enemy’s resistance with machine-gun fire and grenades.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 21, 1944, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the heroism and courage shown by the guard, Red Army soldier Pyotr Pavlovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

After the war, demobilized. In 1949, he graduated from the Kuibyshev regional party school, and worked as a secretary of the Komsomol district committee in the Kuibyshev region.

In 1951, he was called up for political work in the Navy. In 1956 he graduated from the Central courses of propagandists, served in the political composition of the twice Red Banner Baltic, Red Banner Black Sea and Pacific Fleets. Since 1974, Colonel Pavlov P.P. - in stock, and then retired.

He worked in the municipal services department of the city executive committee in the hero city of Sevastopol. He lived and died in the hero city of Sevastopol.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals, as well as the Ukrainian Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky II (05/05/1999) ^[1] .

Honorary citizen of the city of Lodeynoye Pole, Leningrad Region .

He was buried on the Walk of Fame cemetery of the 5th km in Sevastopol ^[2] .

• Glory to the heroes of the motherland. - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1985.
• Roads of courage. - M., 1983.
• I swear to my Motherland ... - Tula, 1981.
• Shapa L. A. When legends come to life. - Lviv, 1978.

Peter Pavlovich Pavlov (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment February 3, 2014.