Astakhov Ivan Ivanovich, senior lieutenant. Born on March 25, 1915. In 1932 he came to Moscow, entered the FZU at the Compressor plant. After graduating from FZU he worked as a mechanic at the same plant. In 1937 Ivan Astakhov was drafted into the army. In 1939 he returned to the Compressor plant. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered for the front, fought on the Western, Kalinin and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. For his heroic deeds at the front, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 22, 1944, Ivan Ivanovich Astakhov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.