Biography of Pavlov Yakov

The annotation board Pavlov Yakov Fedotovich is the commander of the machine gun branch of the Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division of the Don Front, the guard senior sergeant.

Born on October 4 on October 17 in the village of Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region in a peasant family. He graduated from elementary school. In the Red Army since the year. During the Great Patriotic War, in which he took the participation in June, Y. Pavlov was the commander of the machine gun department, the gunner of the gun and the commander of the intelligence department; He participated in battles in the southwestern, Donskoy, Stalingrad, 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belarusian fronts, having traveled the battle path from Stalingrad to Elbe.

During the period of defensive battles in the city of Stalingrad, now the city of Hero Volgograd on the night of September 27, complying with the order of the company commander of the Guards Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Division, I am the army, the Don Front of the senior lieutenant Naumov I. on the command post of the Guards Rifle Regiment, which was in the destroyed mill. Pavlov sent a report: “He knocked out the Germans, fixed.

I ask for reinforcements. After that, his group held the house, which went down in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad as the “Pavlov’s House”, for almost three days on the third day, reinforcements arrived at the Pavlov’s house: the machine -gun platoon of the guard of Lieutenant Afanasyev I. Garrison of the house increased to the x people. The guards with the help of sappers improved the defense of the house, having mined all approaches to it, dug a small trench, which maintained a connection with the command, food was delivered, ammunition.

Later, in the basement of the house, a field phone of the call sign "Mayak" was installed. The house has become an impregnable fortress! The heroic defense of the Pavlov’s House continued until the liquidation of the group of Nazi troops in the Stalingrad region. Within 58 days from November 23 to February 2, the legendary garrison of Soviet guards, representatives of the six nationalities of the peoples of the Soviet Union, held the “Pavlov’s House” and did not give it to the enemy.

And when the Nazis still managed to destroy one of the walls of the fortress house, the fighters answered with a joke: “We have three more walls. The house, like a house, is only with a slight ventilation. ” In the year, the brave warrior-guard was demobilized. He died on September 29. He was buried in the city of Novgorod now - Veliky Novgorod in the Western cemetery. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin by the decision of the Volgograd City Council of People's Deputies of May 7 "For special merits shown in the defense of the city and the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad", Y.

Pavlov was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the Hero of Volgograd". The name of the Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Pavlov was awarded to the boarding school for orphans and children left without the care of the parents of the city of Veliky Novgorod and the ship of the Ministry of Fisheries. In Novgorod, on the house where the hero lived, a memorial plaque was installed.