Rank: Lieutenant Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. He was born in 1922 in the village of Elfimovo, Lukoyanovsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region. After seven of school he worked at the farm, was a secretary of the rural Komsomol organization. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to short-term command courses. After graduation, Lieutenant Kineshov was appointed commander of the motor rifle company of the 3rd motor rifle battalion of the 11th motor rifle brigade. He participated in many defensive and offensive battles. He performed a feat near Kiev. On the night of September 23-24, 1943, under heavy enemy fire, Kineshov and his company crossed to the right bank of the Dnieper using improvised means, seized a bridgehead near the village of Monastyrki and held it until all the units of the motorized rifle battalion crossed the river. In a heavy battle on the bridgehead, Kineshov skillfully led and destroyed up to 40 enemy soldiers and officers. In this battle, he died. By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on January 10, 1944, Ivan Naumovich Kineshov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The famous citizen of Nizhny Novgorod was buried in the village of Monastyrka in the Rzhishchevsky district of the Kiev region. Awards: Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (January 10, 1944, posthumously); Order of Lenin (January 10, 1944, posthumously). A monument is erected on his grave. The Lukoyanovsky folk Museum has a portrait of the Hero. In the village Elfimovo an obelisk was erected in his honor..