Hero of the Great Patriotic War, Kyrgyzstani Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov
Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov was born in 1893 in the city of Petrovsk, Saratov region. Russian. Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the Soviet Army since 1918. Major General. Commander of the 316th Rifle Division. In 1915, he was drafted into the tsarist army as a private. In 1918, he volunteered for the 1st Saratov Soviet Regiment, which merged into the 25th Rifle Division under the command of the legendary commander V. I.