Commander of the tank platoon of the 27th Guards Tank Brigade of the 7th Guards Army of the Voronezh Front. Born in 1919 in Nikolskoye village, Zolotukhino District, Kursk Region in a peasant family. In Red Army since 1939. Entered the Kharkov Tank School. But unfortunately Konorev I. A. didn't manage to finish the full course of the school because the war began. Participant of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. T-34 tank crew Commander, Senior Sergeant Konorev got his first baptism of fire in the battle with a column of enemy troops. Tankmen opened fire with machine-guns on the first motorcyclists and when a traffic jam formed on the road they started to fire on the enemy column.