Soloshchev Ivan Semyonovich Was born on 01.01.1918. Position: Commander of the 82 mm MortarDdivision. Rank: Guards Captain of the 1075 Rifle Regiment. Divisions in which the front-line soldier served: 8th Guards Rifle Panfilov Red Banner Division (6 front-line soldiers), 8th Guards Rifle Rezhitskaya Red Banner Division of the order of Lenin and the order of Suvorov named after Major General I. V. Panfilov. Additional information: Home address during the war: Usinskoe village, Shigonsky (Syzran) district, Kuibyshev (Samara) region. Relatives during the war: mother: Solodova Nadezhda Ivanovna. Additional information: Soloshchev Ivan Semyonovich, born in 1918, a native of the village of Usinskoe, Shigonsky district, Kuibyshev region, Guards Captain-Deputy Commander of the 82 mm Mortar Division. Drafted into the rRd Army in 1938 by The shigon RVC, Kuibyshev region. Defense of Moscow. Western, 2nd Baltic, 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. 316th Rifle Division. On November 18, 1941 the 8th Guards Rifle Division received the status for its courage and heroism in the battles near Moscow. 8th Guards Rifle Rezhitskaya Red Banner of the order of Lenin and Suvorov named after hero of the Soviet Union Major General Panfilov Ivan Vasilyevich division, 1075th Guards Rifle Regiment. Survived.Died in 1990. He was buried in Usinskoe village. Wife: Salomea Anna Ivanovna. During the autumn fighting in 1941 during the defense of Moscow in November 1941 was awarded the Order of the Red Star, awarded in April 1942, the medal "For military merit", awarded 06 June 1942 Order of the Red Star, awarded April 20, 1945 Order of the Red Star. The division fought to the death on the approaches to Moscow, their lives stopped 252 Silesian Infantry Division and two Panzer, the 2nd Panzer Division, 40th Motorized Corps Colonel-General G. Stumm and 11-th Tank Division, 46th Motorized Corps General G. von Vittinghoff-Scheel, fire, anti-tank guns destroyed tanks, burned with bottles of flammable mixture, with antitank grenades went under the tracks, showing the resilience and heroism. The commander of the 4th Panzer Group Colonel-General Erich Gepner, whose shock forces were defeated with the 8th Guards Division, called it in his reports to the commander of the Center group, Fyodor Von Bock – "a wild division fighting against the rules, whose soldiers do not surrender, are extremely fanatical and do not fear death." Ivan Semyonovich in the battles near the village of Kryukovo, 25 km from Moscow, destroyed the headquarters of the fascist regiment with his mortars, which made it possible to occupy the village without losses. Correcting the fire of his batteries from the neutral zone, he destroyed machine-gun points and smashed several dugouts with the Germans. November 16, 1941 at the village of Ivoilovo destroyed a large ammunition depot and two vehicles with infantry. November 20, 1941 at the village of Rozhdestveno destroyed one submachine gun, one staff car, while at the observation post killed 4 machine gunners who were sent to eliminate him, and their machine guns "Schmeister" brought to the location of the regiment. On November 30, 1941 at the village of Kryukovo, 25 km from Moscow, he destroyed one machine gun and five trucks with infantry, one mortar battery, 4 motorcycles, 12 submachine gunners and smashed the headquarters of the German regiment with a direct hit of mines. On February 12, 1942 Soloshchev I. S. with the fire of his mortars drove the fascists out of the village of Svyatogora thus enabling the infantry to take the village without firing a shot. On February 22, 1942, while conducting mortar fire, he struck a sensitive blow to the enemy. In April 1942 a joint gun and machine-gun fire consisting of five people knocked out two Yu-87 aircraft, which, after bombing the regiment's positions, cheekily flew at an altitude of 40-50 meters and fired machine guns. Information about this feat was reported in the evening report of the Soviet information Bureau on April 22, 1942. The division made a huge and invaluable contribution to the defense of Moscow. Usinsk high school Museum, Usinskoye village, Syzran district, Samara region.