Hero of the Great Patriotic War, Kyrgyzstani Ivan Semyonovich Ponomarev
Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Semyonovich Ponomarev Ivan Semyonovich Ponomarev was born in 1922 in the village of Krivo-Khandala in the Taseyevsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Krai into a peasant family. He was Russian. After finishing seven years of school, he worked on a collective farm. In 1941, the Ponomarev family moved to the village of Sosnovka in the Kalinin District of the Kyrgyz SSR. Here, I. Ponomarev worked on the construction of the Big Chui Canal. In May 1941, he was drafted into