CITY: s. Kinobol, Yuryev-Polsky District Vladimir Region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/16/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 04/15/2015 HISTORY: Type of Troops: Signal Corps Subdivision: 37th Infantry Division (2nd formation) Rank: Junior Sergeant Born in the village. Kinobol, Yuryev-Polsky district, Vladimir region. In the period from 1941-1945 served as a signalman in the airborne troops. Received the title of Junior sergeant. He was on the Stalingrad front, participated in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Belarus, the battles near Belgorod and the crossing of the Oder River. Awards received: Order of Glory, Order of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Liberation of Belarus". He was wounded in both legs and shell-shocked. Fragments of an enemy shell hit the leg, but thanks to field surgeons, some of the fragments from the leg were removed, and the stuck fragments in the tendons had to be left in order not to make the soldier lame for life. Having spent more than a month in the hospital, Pavel Nikolaevich caught up with his fellow soldiers. Participated in the battles at the Kursk Bulge, was awarded the medal "For Courage". For battles in Poland he received the medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". For crossing the Oder he was awarded the Order of Glory. When Pavel Nikolayevich served in a group of troops in Germany, he met a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Natalya Grigorievna, who was driven to Germany from the Kaluga region. And after her release, she worked in the service platoon of the unit. In peacetime, Pavel Nikolaevich worked at a bakery. He has three children and five grandchildren. When we all came to visit my grandfather, he talked about the war and loved to sing us a song about a wounded soldier, and then a tear flowed from him ..... Grandfather passed away on April 14, 2015.