Biography I F Pavlov

Front notes. " It began by the annotation of the publishing house: “On the harsh, formidable days of the year, when the eyes of the whole world were riveted to Stalingrad, the military glory of the Russian warrior Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov, a pupil of the glorious Guards Family of the Guards Army, General Chuikov, defending Stalingrad, was born.

In those days, the guardsman Pavlov, fulfilling the combat order of the motherland,-defend Stalingrad from the enemy-for 58 days and nights defended the house, beaten off from the Nazis and a handful of his guards friends. About unforgettable events related to Stalingrad, the Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov simply and sincerely spoke in his front -line notes. ” Today, biographers have been studied in detail and described the circumstances of the life of Y.

Pavlov, and, on the contrary, historians are still arguing, finding out whether Sergeant Yakov Pavlov led the defense of the house or did not lead, but was only the commander of the reconnaissance group who seized the building. And was it fair to call the building a “Pavlov’s house”? He himself wrote about this: “This name was assigned to him from the first day, as we captured him.

The first to call him the Ranin designer Kalinin so the first to call him ... But my soldier honor demands that this house was not only Pavlov’s house, but also the house of Alexandrov, Chernogolov, Glushchenko, Sukba, Stepanoshvili and our whole garrison, which, not sparing his life, carried out the command of the command and stood to death in his position. ” After the war, Yakov Fedotovich often came to our city.

The archival funds have preserved photo documents that captured his visits in different years. One of these post -war meetings was a conversation with the Komsomol members of Stalingrad on July 13.

The conversation took place friendly and open. The protocol of this meeting has been preserved. Komsomol members showed alive and, probably, even a teenage interest in the military aspects of the defense of Pavlov’s house. They were interested in: “How many shells got into the house? Was the artillery and tank shelling was sent to your house? Was the house in which you were a aircraft bombing?

Yakov Fedotovich told and answered very simply and frankly, often-in great detail. His words seem strange that “a normal life began in the process of this defense. In the afternoon we live in a fun setting. When it dawned, we were alone, and as soon as it gets dark, some begin to slip from the garrison to us. ” Even there, in the war, people tried to win the time of the moment of the “normal” life: “The Germans spent their agitation and said to me:“ What are you fighting there, because you are knee -deep in the Volga.

” The Germans started their patrifons, we also started pavements. We pulled down the pavements, and the accordions, and the balalaikas ... ” Feelings of compassion, pity, love - this is also from that “normal” life, almost forgotten in the war, manifested themselves in the walls of the destroyed house: “The inhabitants looked very bad, they were pale, tortured.

I divided the pumpkin between them. For a large family he gave two pumpkins, for a small one - one. Residents helped me in defense work. " He answered them just as simply, even a little not “heroic”. Let's listen to the story of the legendary hero: “Until the year I had no correspondence with my mother. When I was in the artillery regiment, suddenly I receive a letter from my mother that the regiment commander was interested in my location and the regiment commander wrote to her that I was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Mother hid this letter to her rags. Only at a personal meeting she handed me this letter. The regiment commander, who was with me in Stalingrad, writes. I recall that he talked with me and asked where my parents live. I then told him the address of the mother with whom he corresponded. When I was injured, he wrote to my mother about it. When I looked at a letter that says that your son was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, I wrote a letter to the regiment commander in which he said why to embarrass the old people.

He answered me: Comrade. Pavlov, do not be surprised, this is true, you are awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by order. I put this letter in my pocket and went to the unit. When I arrived after vacation to the unit, I was found by a decree on the demobilization of the 3rd stage. On the 3rd day of my arrival from vacation, the party organizer of the regiment comes up to me and tells me: let's write letters in the name of a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of Telegin.

I said goodbye to the regiment’s personnel and came to Potsdam to the artillery headquarters. From there I sent a letter in the name of Comrade Chuykova, who gave the team to issue me the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The decree was in June, and I was presented for awarding this title in the m year. Now I think to study at a military school. ” Volgograd, st. Dymchenko, d.