Date of birth: 01.01.1898 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: _x000D_ Title: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Division: 308th Red Banner Infantry Division _x000D_ Being an employee of the transport department of the OGPU in Abatsk, 308th Rifle Division, he participated in the combats at Stalingrad as Assistant Platoon Commander, Senior Sergeant, was wounded in the area of the Kotluban station (5 km south-west of the Samofalovka farm, Stalingrad region, Gorodishchensky district). _x000D_ At first there was information that Padyshev was missing, and he was taken to the hospital with a serious wound. He was commissioned and sent to Communist party work at the place of conscription. Then he moved with his family to Klaipeda. The Division was formed in March-June 1942 in the city of Omsk on the basis of an infantry school by Colonel Leonty Nikolayevich Gurtyev, mainly from the servicemen of the Omsk infantry military school, residents of the Omsk region, Altai Territory, Gorny Altai. _x000D_ The Commander of 351 Rifle Regiment of the newly formed 308 Rifle Division was appointed, in March 1942, Major Savkin Grigory Ivanovich. At the end of May 1942, 308th Infantry Division was redeployed to the Volga Military District in the region of the city of Saratov. _x000D_ On August 19, 1942, the Division under the command of Colonel Gurtyev went to the front. Her path was to Stalingrad, where fierce combats had been going on for two months. The first echelon of the Division reached the destination station of the Kumalcha crossing and by the end of September 6, 1942 reached the line of Kotluban-Samokhvalovka points in the Stalingrad region. _x000D_ Together with other units of the Division, the Regiment first entered into combat with the enemy as part of 24th army of the Stalingrad Front on September 10, 1942 in the area of the Kotluban state farm (north-west of Stalingrad). It was necessary to capture the Borodkin farm and the heights of 133.4; 143.8 and 154.2. The Division was supported by troops of 217 tank brigades, 136 mortar, 1936 heavy Artillery Regiment, four "PC" Divisions. The enemy unleashed powerful artillery, mortar, aviation, and tank fire on the troops of the Division. But the fascist troops could not do anything, did not break the fighting spirit and persistence of the Siberian soldiers. They fulfilled the combat mission with honor: they detained the Nazis in the offensive against Stalingrad. During the period from 10 to 24 September 1942, the Gurtievites destroyed 11 thousand Nazis, 12 mortars, 3 artillery batteries, burned 19 tanks, shot down 3 aircraft. _x000D_ The Commander of 351st Infantry Regiment, Major Savkin Grigory Ivanovich, missed in action on September 18, 1942; he was excluded from the lists of the Red Army by order of the Chief of the Main Directorate of Formation and Manning of the Red Army Troops No. 01048 / pr dated 11/08/1942, as missing. _x000D_ 308th Infantry Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for exemplary performance of the command's combat missions in thecombat on the Volga, and all participants were awarded the medal For Defense of Stalingrad. For the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the massive heroism of personnel in combats in the Oryol direction, the 351th Rifle Regiment was reorganized into 339th Guards (9/23/1943) by the order of the People's Commissar of Defense, and 308th Rifle Division was renamed into 120th Guards Rifle Division.