Rank: Corporal_x000D_ The last military rank is a retired Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops_x000D_ Subdivision: 14th Guards Cavalry Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was born on January 7, 1924 in the village Chundzha of the Uygur Region of the Almaty Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan (at that time the Alma-Ata Region of the Kazakh SSR). He was the eldest child and the only son in a large peasant family. In 1939 he graduated from the 7th grade and began to work in the kolkhoz helping his family. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, the head of the family, Mikhail Pavlovich, went to the front and Ignat Mikhailovich remained in charge, but on August 20, 1942, he was drafted by the Panfilov Comissariat of the Alma-Ata Region into the Red Army, and mother Evgenia Gavrilovna was left with four daughters—Tonya, Rita, Lilya and recently born Katya. The eldest daughter Zoya worked in the mines of the city of Karaganda on the call to the Labor Army, in the so-called. "Labor Reserves"._x000D_ From June 1943 he took part in the battles against the German fascist invaders. From the first days at the front, Ignat Starikov showed to be a brave, proactive warrior, he became a recon for a foot Reconnaissance platoon. He fought on the Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts as part of the 14th Guards Cavalry Division. _x000D_ On the night of July 25, 1944, Private Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich, as part of a group of the 50th Guards Cavalry Regiment, participated in reconnaissance of the enemy defense in the area of the city of Lublin (Poland). In the village of Zembezhitsa, the recons encountered a group of enemy soldiers. Undeterred, Private Starikov entered into an unequal combat and destroyed two Hitlerites with machine gun fire, and took four prisoners. At the headquarters of the Regiment, the "tongues" gave valuable information about the location of their units. By order of August 17, 1944, the Red Army Soldier Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree (No. 89362). _x000D_ On January 27, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov, as part of a Reconnaissance group, was in a combat mission in the area of the city of Zielona Gora (Poland). The guardsmen engaged a group of machine gunners in two armored personnel carriers and were the first to open fire. _x000D_ In this battle, Starikov personally knocked out an enemy armored personnel carrier with an anti-tank grenade and destroyed more than 10 Nazi soldiers with machine gun fire. By order of March 12, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree (No. 16111). March 10, 1945, in the combat on the river Oder (south-west of Berwalde, Germany), during reconnaissance patrol of the enemy defense in the forest area, which is three kilometers west of the place of Kletkov, Starikov with two recons came across an enemy ambush. Suddenly opening fire, the Germans killed Starikov's comrades in arms. The Corporal was left alone. Frequently changing position, he fired from a machine gun, approaching the enemy. The enemy decided that reinforcements approached the daredevil and retreated, leaving five dead and a light machine gun on the field. For this battle, the Guard Corporal Starikov was presented with a new award. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 15, 1946, for exceptional courage and fearlessness shown at the final stage of WWII in battles with the Nazi invaders, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree (No. 1406) and became a full cavalier Order of Glory. _x000D_ In 1947 I.M. Starikov was demobilized. After the war he lived and worked at the Kandagach station (Aktobe Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan). Later he moved to Altai capital, city of Barnaul (80th Guards Division Street, 30). He worked as a mechanic at the Transmash plant. He was married, raised two of his children and one adopted. He passed away on November 11, 1991. He was buried in Barnaul at the Mikhailovsky cemetery. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Star, the Orders of Glory of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd degrees, and medals. The name of the Hero is given to a street in his native village of Chundzha, Uygur district, Alma-Ata (now Almaty) Region. Memorial plaques were installed on the house in Chundzha, where Starikov I.M. lived before he had been drafted into the Red Army and in Barnaul, where he lived his last years,.