Name: SURNAME: Peter and Paul first NAME: Paul middle name: Nikandrovich CITY: village of Mari-Yernur (Veliko Polje) date of BIRTH: 01.01.1899 date of DEATH: 20.03.1953 HISTORY: Rank: major General of artillery Type of troops: Artillery From the Autobiography of my grandfather's brother: He was born on October 24, 1899 in the village of Mari-Yernur in the present-day Veliko-Polsky selsoviet of the Orsha district of the Mari ASSR. Father Nikander Vasilyevich Petropavlovsk, due to the low power of agriculture and his father's large family, had to look for a living on the side. He worked in the volost boards as a scribe-assistant to the district clerk. In 1915, he became a school clerk. Until 1922, he worked as a Secretary of the Executive Committee. In 1922, he returned to der. Mari-Yernur, and was engaged in agriculture. In 1929, he joined the collective farm. He died in 1931. Mother Maria Vasilyevna Petropavlovsk was a housewife until 1922. In 1922, she joined the CPSU/b and worked as a narsudya and a member of the Board of defenders at the regional Court of Yoshkar-Ola, Mari ASSR. My independent life began early, at the age of 13. He worked as a laborer in the depot of art. Bologoe of the Oktyabrskaya railway and a farmhand for the merchant Turkin. In the spring of 1917, at my mother's request, I joined my father's family and worked as a messenger in the parish. General education-rural school. In the fall of 1917, he moved to Yoshkar-Ola, where he participated in the October revolution in the elections to the U/Executive Committee, and was elected a member. He joined the CPSU/b in 1918. He voluntarily joined the red army in 1918-a red army soldier of the I St. regiment (Krasnokokshaysky uyezd-auth.) participated in the civil war in the battles on the Eastern, Western, Northern and southern fronts." Profession-to protect the Homeland and in the next decade and a half of peaceful years Pavel nikandrovich did not take off his military uniform. He was educated at several military artillery institutions, the last of them being the Frunze Military Academy. And then again, the battle years. First the Finnish war, then the Great Patriotic War, in 1945-the war with Japan. He commanded the artillery of regiments and divisions, and later armies. And no matter what post he was in, he never hid behind anyone's back. With six orders and battle medals, the Motherland celebrated the contribution of major General Pavel Petropavlovsk to the victory. And thanks to his family, we still remember and are proud of our countryman.