Rank: Senior Officer: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Krivtsov Ignat Ivanovich was born on 03.03.1908 in the village of Bunino, Solntsevsky District, Kursk Region. Russian. Member of the CPSU. Graduate of 4 classes. He grew up, studied and worked like many of his peers in the village. At the age of thirty-two he went to Makeyevka, worked as a miner in the Markovskaya mine and went to the front in August 1941. When the war began, the worker Ignat Krivtsov volunteered to go to the front. The command selected courageous, strong-willed people who were able to perform the most difficult and responsible tasks. These are exactly the people the commanders saw in Ignat Ivanovich... Krivtsov did not hesitate long and weighed his strength, but his heart told him that he could withstand the ordeal. And he said: - "I am ready to perform any task"! So the average Kryvtsov was an intelligence officer of the division. During the first combat mission, the four fearless fighters set off at dawn. It was necessary to take the "language". For three days, in heavy rain, under bullets, the soldiers, covered with masks, studied the enemy. At the end of the third day they damaged the communication wires of the enemy units in several places, in the hope that the Germans would immediately begin to correct the line. And so it happened. There were three of them: the fascists, as owners, entered our country in full growth. Suddenly there was a short "Hande Hoh"! The Germans were confused at first, then they grabbed their weapons and rushed into the bushes. But it was too late. Automatic fire mowed down two of them, and a third raised his hands. He was taken to headquarters. The commander of the platoon of the Pedestrian Investigation 146 guards rifle regiment (70th Army 1 pc Belarusian Front) Sergeant Kryvtsov during the attack on Poland is often reconnaissance command tasks as at the front and behind enemy lines. On the approaches to the river Narew in the area of the settlement Yakushevo, Warsaw Voivodeship, 28.08.1944, the Abteilung together with the Abteilung penetrated into enemy positions. Courageously acting, energetically destroyed the machine gun with the calculation and for the further fight seven more Hitlerists. Guards Sergeant Krivtsov 09.02.1945 not noticeable for the Nazis the Nazis passed their front line, went together with other scouts to the positions of the German machine-gunners. Soldiers with grenades and machine gun fire destroyed three calculations. This was exploited by the units of the regiment and a sudden night attack took the village of Alkenen. 29.06.1945 Wachfeldwebel I I. Krivtsov was awarded the Order of the Art of Glory I. Many times the scout Ignat Ivanovich Krivtsov looked death in the eye and did not always emerge victorious from fights with the enemy... Twenty "languages" of recruits and officers - he delivered to the headquarters, risked his life twenty times to ensure the combat success of our units. More than once he had to heal his wounds in field hospitals. And every time he returned to the front, went on reconnaissance, went towards victory. The Motherland took note of the military heroic deeds of the Boy Scout Ignat Ivanovich Krivtsov with high awards and awarded him 3 orders of "Glory", the Order of the Red Star and the "Order of Patriotic War" of the "first art", the medal "for military merits". After the war Ignat Ivanovich worked in the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, as a kilner of the ceramics department on the order of the red banner of the "Avtosteklo" factory, was a drummer of communist work. Retired by age. But until today perhaps few people in the factory know that next to them worked a man whose life was a heroic deed. Ignat Ivanovich died on 23.05. I981 in Konstantinovka.