Zakharov, Peter Ivanovich (full gentleman of the Order of Glory)

Born on January 19, 1917 in the village of Big Shurnyak, now in the Yelabuga District of the Republic of Tatarstan, in a peasant family. Nagaibak (orthodox ethnographic group of Tatars). He graduated from 7 classes. He worked as a tractor-combine operator on the collective farm.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Yelabugsky military registration and enlistment office of the Tatar ASSR. Served in artillery. In the winter of 1939-1940 as part of a howitzer artillery regiment participated in the war with Finland. Got frostbite. After the hospital he served in the 110th KE Voroshilov artillery regiment named in Novaya Vileika (near Vilnius, Lithuania). The regiment was armed with 203-mm howitzers. It met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

In the first days of the war, the regiment that had lost its materiel, retreated eastward as part of the 11th Army. Junior Sergeant Zakharov along with other fighters participated in defensive battles on the North-Western Front. He was surrounded, was contused.

Since the spring of 1942, he fought as part of the 5th guerrilla unit named after Kozma Minin on the territory of Belarus, near the city of Vitebsk. By the spring of 1943, Zakharov’s partisan had seven enemy echelons derailed, dozens of successful attacks on enemy garrisons. In March 1943, a group of partisans under his command blocked the highway and restrained the retreating Nazi units to the income of the forward detachments of the 4th Shock Army.

After verification, the junior sergeant Zakharov was, with regard to the military specialty, enlisted as a gunner in the calculation of the 76-mm guns of the 1126th infantry regiment of the 334th rifle division. At the beginning of 1944, in the zone of the 43rd Army, which included the division, there was a temporary lull. But the troops continued to conduct local battles.

February 9, 1944 in battles near the town of Gorodok, Vitebsk region, sergeant Zakharov supported a rifle company that conducted reconnaissance by fire. The gun was pre-pushed into the front line and disguised. With the beginning of the attack, the gunners with the first shots suppressed two machine-gun points. In this battle, the weapon of Sergeant Zakharov destroyed three firing points and about a dozen enemy soldiers. The crew had to operate under artillery and mortar fire. Zakharov was wounded, but continued to perform the combat mission.

By order of the commander of the 334th Infantry Division of February 22, 1944, Sergeant Zakharov Petr Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree (No. 300119).

In the subsequent battles for Vitebsk, Sergeant Zakharov was seriously wounded. After treatment in the hospital in his part did not get. He was sent to the 610th anti-tank artillery regiment of the 39th Army, where he became a senior reconnaissance artillery battery. With this part went to Victory. Particularly distinguished in battles in East Prussia.

On January 13, 1945, Sergeant Zakharov, observing the enemy, discovered and transferred to his battery the coordinates of an enemy gun and 5 machine guns in a battle near the village of Pilkallen (East Prussia, now the village of Dobrovolsk, Krasnoznamensky district, Kaliningrad region). The battery fire targets were suppressed. On January 15, while repelling a counterattack from personal weapons, he struck 4 enemy soldiers.

By order of the troops of the 39th Army of March 10, 1945, Sergeant Zakharov Peter Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree again.

On April 6-7, 1945, in battles near the settlement of Rabmeken (6 km north-west of the city of Königsberg, now Kaliningrad), being at the advanced observation post, found 2 machine guns, a cannon, enemy NP, which were destroyed by battery fire. On April 7, 1945, Zakharov was wounded in battle, made himself a bandage, but did not leave the battlefield and continued to perform his combat mission.

By order of April 27, 1945, Sergeant Zakharov Peter Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (No. 6526).

Victory Day met in an army hospital. After recovery, he returned to his regiment. In June 1945, the regiment, along with other parts of the 39th Army, was transferred to the east, on the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic, and became part of the Trans-Baikal Front. Here the artilleryman Zakharov participated in the crossing of the Great Khingan ridge and the defeat of the Kwantung Army. In 1946, Sergeant Zakharov was demobilized.

After the war he lived in the city of Magnitogorsk. He worked as an electrician, then as a truck driver of a linear linear car in Magnitogorsk electrical networks Chelyabenergo.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 10, 1970, in order to reward, Petr Ivanovich Zakharov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree (No. 2628). Became a full gentleman of the Order of Glory.

In 1977 he retired. He died on December 24, 1981.

• Order of the Patriotic War, 1 degree
• Order of the Red Star
• Order of Glory of 1 degree (November 10, 1970 — No. 2628)
• Order of Glory 2 degrees (April 37, 1944 — № 6526)
• 2 orders of Glory 3 degrees (February 22, 1944 — No. 300119 and March 10, 1945 (re-awarded))
• A number of medals.

In May 2006, a bust of Zakharov was opened in the city of Elabuga on the Walk of Fame.

• Petr Zakharov on the site Heroes of the country