Pakhomov Ivan Pudovich was born in 1909 in the village of Upornaya, Krasnodar Territory. Before the war he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. He was drafted by the Upornensky Regional Military Commissariat and on August 21, 1941, he arrived at the military transit point of the 46th reserve rifle regiment of the 15th reserve rifle brigade, stationed in Armavir, where he was assigned a military specialty - a mortarman of light and heavy mortars. On September 30, 1941, the military echelon took away the marching company 3117, which included I.P. Pakhomov, to defend Moscow. The last letter received by the family of Ivan Pudovich is dated October 5, 1941. Since then there has been no news from him. Recognized as missing in April 1943