Fedulov, Pavel Ivanovich

Born December 31, 1918 in the city of Kineshma, now in the Ivanovo Region, in a working class family. Russian. He graduated from 9 classes. He worked as an accountant at the Kineshma factory "Red Branch".

In 1939 he was called up for military service in the border troops of the NKVD of the USSR. He served at the border post on Sakhalin Island. He was sent to study at the Saratov Military School of the NKVD of the USSR , which he graduated on June 28, 1941. He was sent to the border with Afghanistan , in the Kerkin border detachment. From the first days I began to write reports with a request to be sent to the front. At the end of 1941, he was enlisted as a platoon commander in the 278th infantry regiment of the NKVD formed in Ashgabat, the backbone of which was made up of border guards. In April 1942, the regiment was transferred to Anapa, preparing to land on the Crimean peninsula, but was soon urgently transferred to the city of Nalchik. Here, border guards fought against saboteurs, intensified in connection with the approach of the Nazis. In August 1942, as part of the regiment, he participated in the defense of Pyatigorsk, Mount Beshtau. With the battles he left the encirclement and took command of the company. In December 1942 he was seriously wounded - a shard touched the heart, but miraculously survived. He was treated in hospitals in the cities of Ordzhonikidze and Baku . After recovering, he was sent to the Shot courses. He returned to the front in late 1943, as part of the 301st Infantry Division, he participated in battles on the Dnieper. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1944.

The commander of the company of the 177th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 60th Guards Rifle Division of the Guard, Captain Fedulov was especially distinguished in the battles for the liberation of Poland , when breaking through the enemy’s defense in the area of ​​the settlement of Buda Augustovsk. January 14, 1945, the company of the guard Captain Fedulov, breaking the minefield and two line of enemy trenches, attacked a height of 147.6. He did not let his platoons and attached funds out of sight, he energetically led the battle. Moving forward delayed the bunker fire. Captain Fedulov, at the head of one platoon, went around the heights from the rear, overcame a deep swamp and destroyed an enemy firing point. Eliminating the centers of resistance, the company went to the village of Male God. Reflecting four enemy counterattacks, the guards immediately crossed the Pilitsa river, captured and expanded the bridgehead.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 27, 1945 for skillfully leading the battle in breaking through long-term and deeply echeloned enemy defenses in impenetrable wooded and swampy terrain with insignificant losses in manpower and guards, Captain Fedulov Pavel Ivanovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the order Lenin and the Gold Star medal .

In the battles of Oder, in Germany , the guard, Captain Fedulov already commanded the battalion. In one of the battles he was wounded, an enemy shell hit the building where the battalion headquarters was located. Victory Day met in the hospital. After recovering on May 18, 1945, he received the highest awards of his homeland in the Kremlin. Then he was appointed to the post of teacher of tactics at the Gorky Suvorov School. In 1949 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. He continued his service as a teacher at the Leningrad Academy of Logistics and Transport. He taught general tactics, defended his thesis. Since 1975, Colonel Fedulov - in stock. He lived in the hero city of Leningrad. He died on September 29, 2009. He was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg.

He was awarded the Orders of Lenin , World War 1 degree, two orders of the Red Star , the Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3rd degree, medals. Gymnasium No. 271 of the Krasnoselsky District was named after the Hero in the city of St. Petersburg; a memorial plaque was installed on the gymnasium building.

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• The book of memory of the Ivanovo region, t. 2. Ivanovo, 1995.
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Pavel Ivanovich Fedulov (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment June 14, 2014.