Rank: Lieutenant Commander Branch of Service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 349th Rifle Division Ivan Badanin was born on June 2, 1918 in the family of Grigory Badanin in the village of Poshutyata in the Vokhomsky District of the Kostroma Region. At school, he received a general seven-year education, and then applied to the Veliky-Ustyug River Transportation Technical School. He graduated in 1938 as a specialty-shipmaster technician of the river fleet. He was called to the front by the Ust-Usinsk District Military Commissariat of the Komi ASSR. He took the military oath on September 20, 1942. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR from August 13, 1942 to December 20, 1945. From the red army book (from October 11, 1945): Rank and position: Sergeant, Senior Accountant. Unit: 112th Military Construction Detachment of the Main Directorate of Signal Detachments of the Red Army. The name of the unit: The Staff of the 1173rd Rifle Regiment from October 25, 1942 to January 23, 1943 111th Red Army Guards Rifle Regiment from 1.04.43 to 1.01.44, Sergeant Hospital #8052 from 23.01.43 to 1.04.43 Sergeant Evacuation Hospital #3261 from 1.01.44 to 12.03.44 Sergeant 21st UVNS from 12.02.44 to 12.04.44 Sergeant 112th Military Construction Detachment from 12.04.44 Sergeant, Senior Accountant Demobilized on the basis of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 25.09.45 as a graduate of technical school. During the Great Patriotic War, he took part in combat operations on the Stalingrad front from November 1942 to April 1943 as rifleman. He fought on the 4th Ukrainian Front from April 1943 to July 17, 1943 as a squad leader. Military ID # VK 079828 issued on January 9, 1968 by the Nenets District Military Commissariat of the Arkhangelsk Region (personal number G-599724). He received the rank of Lieutenant Commander on May 15, 1959 by order of the Ministry of defense of the USSR #453. Political Officer. Reserve - 2nd degree. He passed the 90 day training camps at the military unit #20 240 as an instructor in the organization of party work in 1963. The certificate to the participant in the war was issued on 25.09. (Zh 255 044). Registered on February 11, 1955. Nenets DMC of the Arkhangelsk Region.