Klochkov Vasily Georgievich Rank: soldier of the Red Army. Military Branch: Land Forces, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD Troops, Border Guard Unit: 316th Rifle Division (1st Formation). Vasily Klochkov was born on March 8, 1911 in the village of Synodsky (today in the Voskresensky district, Saratov region). Russian. Together with his family he moved to the Altai during the famine in the Volga region in 1921. In 1929 he graduated from the school of the peasant youth in the village Lokot, Loktev District. In the years 1931-1940 he lived and worked in Mokshan, Penza region, and then in Saratov. In 1939 he became a member of the CPSU (b). In the years 1940-1941 he lived in Alma-Ata. In August 1940, he completed Union Institute the correspondence studies of the People's Commissariat for Trade of USSR. From May 1941 he worked as Deputy Manager of the trust of canteens and restaurants in the city of Alma- Ata. In 1941 Vasily Klochkov was drafted into Red Army and sent to the front, and in October-November In 1941 he fought as part of the 316th rifle division near Moscow in the direction of Volokolamsk. Appointment as a military commissar of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th Rifle Regiment (company commander - Captain P. M. Gundilovich). On November 16, 1941 he took part in the Dubosekovo Crossing in the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow Region, leading a group of tank destroyers in the defense against numerous enemy attacks. 18 enemy tanks were destroyed (however, according to the report of the regiment commander Colonel Kaprov the entire 1075th rifle regiment destroyed 15 tanks on November 16, 1941, and the German military archives show 13 tanks lost that day by the 11th tank army advancing near Volokolamsk). The words addressed to the soldiers: "Russia is big, but there is no retreat - Moscow is behind! - which were attributed to him, became known throughout the country. During the battle Vasily Klochkov died after throwing himself under an enemy tank with a pile of grenades. He was buried at the site of the battle and then reburied in the village of Nelidovo, two kilometers from the battle site.