Sergeant Pavlov in the Battle of Stalingrad. Yakov Pavlov and Other Heroes of Stalingrad You Need to Know

On October 17, 1917 (according to the new style), Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was born in the village of Krestovaya (now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region).

- Yuri Yakovlevich, where does the Pavlov family come from?

- The grandfather and great-grandfather of Yakov Fedotovich, as far as I was able to find out, were born and lived in the village of Krestovaya. I only knew Grandma Anisya. About grandfather Fedot (1887-1941) heard only from her words. They married in January 1914. Grandfather was engaged in peasant labor and knew shoemaking. He helped villagers repair shoes and could even sew boots. My grandfather died before the war, in March 1941. Grandma Anisya lived with us. Father came to Krestovaya and took her to us. She lived for 91 years and died in 1981, outliving her father.

The last time we were in Krestovaya with my father was in 1972. There was practically no road, and our Zhiguli drove back on a steel sheet along with cans of milk. And the sheet was pulled by a caterpillar tractor ...

- How was the fate of Yakov Fedotovich after the war?

- Having been demobilized in 1946, he returned to his homeland, to Valdai. He was offered to stay in the army, but he refused. He served from the 38th to the 46th years. And, of course, three wounds affected.

He started working as an instructor in the district executive committee. They were sent to study in Leningrad along the party line. After studying, he became the 3rd secretary of the Valdai District Party Committee. Managed agriculture. The position was troublesome - the Valdai region at that time was agricultural.

Letters to Yakov Fedotovich came every day

In 1947 my father and mother got married. Soon he was sent to study at the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow, where I was born in the 51st. His mother went with him - she taught Russian to Koreans and Vietnamese. They stayed in Moscow until 1956, and then returned to Valdai again.

He had to travel a lot around the area. First - on a motorcycle "Kovrovets". The motorcycle often broke down, and the father joked: "It is not known who rode whom more ...". There were no roads in the area.

Even then, his health began to “take over” and he became a director at a local printing house. He worked for a year or a little more, and then he was persuaded to move to Novgorod. In August 1961, we moved to this apartment. My father worked at the Kometa plant in the supply department.

Did he also have to travel a lot at his new job?

- It was necessary, although his health was not the same. First he went to the hospital every year, every year, and then twice a year. I often traveled with him. Because of this, I even had to quit my job. Here he goes to Volgograd, and who will carry the suitcase?

He visited Cuba, knew Fidel and Raul Castro. He came to France at the invitation of the pilots of the Normandie-Niemen squadron. Today, medals donated by the French remind of this. The most expensive souvenir from Volgograd is a sieve, with which the veterans of the "Soldier's Field" sowed. I asked several participants of this event to sign on it.

Yakov Pavlov (right) during the first sowing of the Soldier's field

My father met with conscripts in military units and took me to these meetings, which made me very happy. He even traveled to Hungary, where at that time there was a military unit in which he fought before the Victory.

- What was Yakov Fedotovich like in the family circle?

- Sincere, sympathetic, very kind and cheerful, I liked to talk with him on various topics.

On weekends, he found time to be with his family, doing various household chores. In my childhood, in winter in Valdai, the whole family went skiing. In summer and autumn, they often went fishing, went for mushrooms. I always looked forward to Sunday and pestered my father - when and where are we going?

- Did he tell you about the war, about what he had to endure?

- In everyday life, everything seemed natural, simple and ordinary, except for my father's memories of the war. I listened to them very carefully. And I was always surprised at what military, combat and everyday hardships my father and other soldiers had to experience and overcome. And at the same time, show courage, resilience and be strong, strong-willed, skillful fighters. I wanted to be like them.

He never boasted of the Golden Star of the Hero in front of people, but at the same time he highly appreciated it. Lived modestly. He worked a lot, was engaged in social activities, took an active part in educating young people a sense of patriotism and love for the Motherland. He often told me: "We, the fighters of the Soviet Army, did not think that this was a feat, but simply performed our military duty." Never said, "I protected the house." Always repeated: "We defended."

Autographed book by I. Afanasyev, presented by the author to Yakov Pavlov

- I heard that Yakov Fedotovich was offered to move to Volgograd ...

- It was so. I remember that they even offered an apartment in the center, where Vuchetich's workshop used to be. By the way, it was in it that in 1964 Yevgeny Viktorovich painted his father's portrait, which has been hanging in our apartment since that time.

Dad, by the way, was familiar with many prominent and famous people. I have preserved autographs of letters or greeting cards of General Pavel Batov, singer Tamara Miansarova, Alexei Maresyev, Yuri Gagarin and many, many others. While still studying in Leningrad, my father became friends with the legendary sniper Vasily Zaitsev, with whom he usually attended various events in Volgograd together.

By the way, I often visited the hero city. And not only with his father, but also with his mother, and with his son. I have always liked the city and Volgograd residents very much. He especially admired the sculptures of Mamaev Kurgan, the Stalingrad battle panorama museum, the power of the great Russian river Volga. And it begins with a small stream in our native land, where we went hiking in our school years.

Yuri Yakovlevich Pavlov at the portrait of his father. The author of the portrait is Evgeny Vuchetich.

- How was your fate?

– Worked as an engineer, carpenter, head of the circle of applied arts. Now retired. My children - son Alexei and daughter Svetlana - are ordinary guys. The son is a builder, the daughter is the chief specialist of the financial services center of the Department of Education and Youth Policy of the Novgorod Region. Granddaughter Xenia is in the 8th grade and is engaged in sports ballroom dancing.

There are many heroic pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War, but this one stands apart. Even the Nazis themselves admitted that it would be difficult to believe in such a thing if they had not seen it with their own eyes. Even if on the field maps of German officers "Pavlov's house" was marked as a fortress.

This house seemed to be no different from other houses in the area, only from it there was a direct road to the Volga, this moment was very important. And a group of scouts under the command of Sergeant Pavlov, having captured him, received an important strategic initiative. Three days later, reinforcements with manpower and weapons arrived to help the scouts. The command passed to Senior Lieutenant I.F. Afanasiev. About two dozen fighters armed with small arms, anti-tank rifles and machine guns fought under his command.

German troops stormed the "Pavlov's house" several times during the day, but the most they could achieve was the capture of the first floors. However, the Soviet soldiers went on a counterattack and returned to their previous positions.

Tanks and additional military formations were brought up to the area of the "Pavlov's house", however, the soldiers of the Red Army met them with dense fire and did not allow them to enter the building. At the same time, civilians were hiding in the basement of the house. For the Germans, it remained a mystery how the scouts were supplied with ammunition and provisions in the conditions of a complete blockade of the building.

During the siege of the “Pavlov’s house”, the German troops lost more manpower than during the entire campaign against Paris!

Thanks to the courage of the scouts, who diverted the attention of a large group of Wehrmacht troops, the Red Army units received a respite, reorganized and launched a counterattack.

We can say that the feat of the Soviet soldiers in the "Pavlov's house" became the starting point and the key to a successful offensive on the entire front.

It is worth noting that among the soldiers who defended the "Pavlov's house" there were representatives of eleven nationalities. Their feat is not forgotten, and already after the war, a memorial plaque dedicated to the feat of scouts was installed on the house number 39 on Sovetskaya Street.

Yakov Fedotovich

"Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd"

Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Born on October 4 (17), 1917, the village of Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region, In the Red Army since 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, the commander of the machine-gun squad, gunner and squad leader. Passed the battle path from Stalingrad to the Elbe. Member of the battles on the South-Western, Stalingrad, 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts. Yakov Fedotovich took an active part in the historical Battle of Stalingrad, fought as part of the legendary 13th Guards Order of Lenin Rifle Division of the 62nd Army. During the defense of Stalingrad, at the end of September 1942, a reconnaissance and assault group led by Sergeant Pavlov captured a 4-storey building in the city center and entrenched in it. Then reinforcements arrived at the house, and the house became an important stronghold in the division's defense system. 24 warriors of nine nationalities staunchly defended themselves in the fortified house, repelling the fierce attacks of the Nazis and held the house until the start of the counteroffensive of the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. This house went down in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad as "Pavlov's House". Pavlov's house in the history of the Battle of Stalingrad has become a symbol of courage, stamina and heroism. For 58 days, Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov and his comrades-in-arms defended this house, repelling all attacks of the Nazis. For his feat, Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The house, held by the garrison of Sergeant Pavlov, was restored thanks to the inhabitants of the city by one of the first in honor of the courageous defenders, whose names are immortalized in stone on its pediment. In August 1946, Pavlov was demobilized, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. He worked in the national economy. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, 2 Orders of the Red Star and medals. In his personal life, Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was an open and sociable person. The title "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd" was awarded to Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov by the decision of the Volgograd City Council of People's Deputies of May 7, 1980 for special military merits shown in the defense of the city and the defeat of the Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad.

“We will never forget the harsh and formidable 1942. A quarter of a century ago, the fate of our Fatherland was decided here ... Our oath - there is no land for us beyond the Volga - expressed the determination to fight to the death, expressed the nationwide desire to defeat the enemy in Stalingrad ... "

Ya.F. Pavlov

“Let our prayers merge into a single cry to the Lord, so that those for whom we pray may rejoice in spirit for our love for them…”

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

Once I happened to meet on Valaam with pilgrims from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The elder, Archimandrite Cyril (Pavlov) was also mentioned in the conversation. Someone asked if this was the legendary sergeant Pavlov from Stalingrad, or if all the talk about it was a simple poetic fiction, of which there are many among the Orthodox.

- And so, and that way they say ... - Monk Sergius answered. “But Elder Kirill himself, in his humility, does not answer this question. But, apparently, Sergeant Pavlov is he.

- He, of course! an elderly monk supported him. “Who else would be able to defend a house like that against an entire army?” Only to such a prayer book as Cyril, and such a thing is possible ...

My interlocutors were wrong.

Although Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov) also fought in Stalingrad with the rank of sergeant, but the commander of the machine-gun squad of the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division, General Rodimtsev, who defended the famous House of Specialists for 58 days, was another Stalingrad sergeant - Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov.

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In the old days, every schoolboy knew about this House ...

The 13th Guards Division of General Rodimtsev miraculously managed to stop the enemy rushing to the Volga, just a few hundred meters from the coast, on the square named after January 9th.

When there was a break, they noticed that the dark gray House of Specialists remained in the neutral zone. From time to time, automatic and machine-gun bursts were heard from there.

It was decided to send intelligence. The choice fell on Sergeant Yakov Pavlov. Together with corporal V.S. Glushchenko and privates A.P. Alexandrov and N.Ya. Black-headed fearless sergeant went to the house. There, in the basement where the locals were hiding, the scouts met with medical instructor Dmitry Kalinin and two wounded soldiers. There were also few Germans in the house. Moving from one apartment to another, from floor to floor, the scouts knocked out the Nazis.

The House of Specialists was considered one of the most prestigious in Stalingrad. The heads of industrial enterprises and party workers lived in it. From the house a direct road led to the Volga.

As in the palm of your hand, the German positions were visible from the house. After assessing the situation, Sergeant Pavlov decided that it was impossible to leave this house.

Early in the morning, the scouts took the first blow of the enemy. For almost two months, fifty-eight days, the Germans stormed Pavlov's House and were never able to take it.

It is, of course, a miracle...

The German army, which easily passed many thousands of kilometers, captured dozens of countries, got stuck in front of an ordinary four-story house on Stalingrad street, but did not manage to pass the last meters leading to the Volga.

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In those very September days, when the Germans attacked Stalingrad with all the might of their armies, another sergeant, Ivan Dmitrievich Pavlov, also defended the city on the Volga. He was two years younger than the heroic namesake, but his military path turned out to be longer, because he began back in the Finnish War. And, like Yakov Fedotovich in the House on January 9 Square, Ivan Dmitrievich also found his fate in the ruins of the Stalingrad house.

Ivan Dmitrievich picked up a broken book from a pile of bricks, began to read it and felt, as he later recalled, "something so dear, sweet to the soul." It was the gospel.

Ivan Dmitrievich collected all his leaves together and no longer parted with the found Book. Thus began his journey to God.

“When I began to read the Gospel, my eyes simply began to see clearly to everything around me, to all events,” he later said. — I walked with the Gospel and was not afraid. Never. It was such an inspiration! It’s just that the Lord was by my side, and I was not afraid of anything ... "

Ivan Dmitrievich reached Austria, participated in the battles at Lake Balaton, and in 1946, when he was demobilized from Hungary, he came to Moscow.

“In the Yelokhov Cathedral, I ask if we have some kind of spiritual institution. “There is,” they say, “a theological seminary was opened in the Novodevichy Convent.” Went there in military uniform. I remember the Vice-Rector, Father Sergiy Savinsky, cordially greeted me "...

So yesterday's sergeant became a seminarian.

After graduating from the seminary, he studied at the Moscow Theological Academy and in 1953 received monastic vows.

In 1954, it was no longer Ivan Dmitrievich Pavlov who graduated from the Theological Academy, but Hieromonk Kirill.

The fate of Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov is completely different, but - so strange! - all its nodal points coincide in time with the nodal events of the biography of the future archimandrite.

In 1944, Yakov Fedotovich joined the Communist Party. He met the victory in the rank of foreman, and on June 27, 1945, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the feat accomplished back in Stalingrad.

After the war, Yakov Fedotovich graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU and worked in the national economy, was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR three times, and was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution.

In 1980, he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of Volgograd". Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov died in 1981 and was buried in Novgorod.

Well, the whole life of Archimandrite Kirill turned out to be connected with the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Archimandrite Kirill became the confessor of all the brethren of the main monastery of Russia.

It was Elder Kirill who confessed to the late Patriarchs Alexy and Pimen. Now he is the confessor of Alexy II.

The elder almost never visits the Lavra - he lives in Peredelkino, in the residence of His Holiness Patriarch of All Russia Alexy II.

The elder prefers not to talk about his military past.

“It remained in that life,” he replies to annoying interlocutors.

They say that one day Archimandrite Kirill was summoned to the recruiting office of Sergiev Posad and asked what to say to the Moscow authorities about the defender of Stalingrad Pavlov.

“Tell me that I am dead…” the elder replied.

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I would not begin to explain the confusion that occurred with the sergeants Pavlovs in some Orthodox publications, only by the enthusiasm of Orthodox authors. Of course, the prevalence of the Pavlovs' surname played a role here.

Few people know that only three Pavlovs became Heroes of the Soviet Union in Stalingrad. This high rank was awarded to Captain Sergei Mikhailovich Pavlov and Guard Senior Sergeant Dmitry Ivanovich Pavlov.

And Sergeant Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov himself, as we have already noted, received the title of Hero for his unparalleled feat in Stalingrad only after the war, when he finally joined the Communist Party.

It is possible to find deeper roots of this combination of different Pavlov sergeants into one whole. The long silence about the role of the Orthodox Church and millions of Orthodox people in the victory over the occult Reich had an effect. After all, practically nothing is known about the fact that when Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, the Orthodox clergy, forgetting about previous persecutions, stood up to defend the Fatherland.

In Stalingrad alone one can find many examples of this. The Dnieper priest from the Kazan Cathedral walked around the besieged city and blessed the inhabitants and soldiers for military labor. The clergyman Boris Vasiliev in the battle on the Volga commanded a platoon of scouts, and the Metropolitan of Kalinin and Kashinsky Alexy, then still just an ordinary Alexei Konoplev, was a machine gunner...

In fact, in this story there is also that mystical side that is incomprehensible to the end, which does not allow us to talk about the union in the Orthodox people's consciousness of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Sergeant Ya.F. Pavlov and the confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Kirill, simply as a mistake.

I first thought about this while listening to a sermon delivered by Archimandrite Kirill.

“Let us give one reliable example, described by the holy martyr of the 3rd century Perpetua,” he said. “Once,” the martyr writes, “in prison, during a common prayer, I accidentally uttered the name of my deceased brother Dinocrates. Struck by the unexpectedness, I began to pray and sigh for him before God. The next night I had a vision. I see Dinocrates coming out of a dark place in a great heat and exhausted with thirst, unclean in appearance and pale; he has a wound on his face with which he died. There was a great gulf between me and him, so that we could not approach each other. Near the place where Dinocrates stood, there was a full reservoir, the edge of which was much higher than my brother's height, and Dinocrates stretched out, trying to get water. I regretted that the height of the edge prevented my brother from getting drunk. Immediately after that, I woke up and knew that my brother was in torment. Believing that prayer could help him in his sufferings, I prayed day and night in prison, with cries and tears, that he would be granted to me. On that day, on which we remained bound in chains, there was a new phenomenon for me: the place that I had previously seen dark became bright, and Dinocrates, clean in face and in beautiful clothes, enjoys the coolness. Where he had a wound, I see only a trace of it, and the edge of the reservoir was now no more than a height of a boy’s waist, and he could easily get water from there. On the edge stood a golden bowl full of water; Dinocrates came up and began to drink from it, and the water did not subside. Thus the vision ended. Then I enlightened that he was released from punishment.”

Blessed Augustine, in explaining this story, says that Dinocrates was enlightened by holy baptism, but was carried away by the example of a pagan father and was unsteady in faith, and died after some falls that were common at his age. For such unfaithfulness to the holy faith, he endured suffering, but through the prayers of his holy sister he got rid of them.

Therefore, my dears, as long as the militant Church remains on earth, the fate of dead sinners can still change for the better with her help. How much consolation for a sorrowful heart, how much light for a bewildered mind in Christianity! Beams of light pour from it into the gloomy realm of the dead."

You think about the words of this sermon by Archimandrite Kirill, and somehow the story of sergeants Pavlovs is seen differently ...

Not confusion, but high heavenly light you discern in it.

Yakov Pavlov was born in the village of Malaya Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region, graduated from elementary school, worked in agriculture. In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He met the Great Patriotic War in combat units in the Kovel region, as part of the troops of the Southwestern Front.

In 1942, Pavlov was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division, General A.I. Rodimtsev. He took part in defensive battles on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya. F. Pavlov was reorganized in the city of Kamyshin, where he was appointed commander of the machine gun section of the 7th company. In September 1942 - in the battles for Stalingrad, carried out reconnaissance missions.

On the evening of September 27, 1942, Pavlov received a combat mission from the company commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in a 4-story building overlooking the central square of Stalingrad - January 9th Square. This building occupied an important tactical position. With three fighters (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Alexandrov), he drove the Germans out of the building and completely captured it. Soon the group received reinforcements, ammunition and telephone communications. Together with the platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders increased to 24 people. Far from immediately, it was possible to dig a trench and evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house.

The Nazis constantly attacked the building with artillery and air bombs. But Afanasiev avoided heavy losses and for almost two months did not allow the enemy to break through to the Volga.

On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front (see Operation Uranus) launched a counteroffensive. On November 25, during the attack, Pavlov was wounded in the leg, was in the hospital, then was a gunner and commander of the reconnaissance section in the artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts, in which he reached Stettin. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. On June 17, 1945, junior lieutenant Yakov Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (medal No. 6775). Pavlov was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946.

After demobilization, he worked in the city of Valdai, Novgorod Region, was the first secretary of the district committee, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. Three times he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution. He repeatedly came to Stalingrad (now Volgograd), met with the inhabitants of the city, who survived the war and restored it from ruins. In 1980, Ya. F. Pavlov was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd."

In Veliky Novgorod, in a boarding school named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is a Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsa microdistrict, Beregovaya Street, 44).

Pavlov was buried on the alley of heroes of the Western cemetery of Veliky Novgorod. There is a version that Pavlov did not die in 1981, but became the confessor of the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Fr. Kirill. This information has no confirmation - this is his namesake, who was also the defender of Stalingrad.

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Battle of Stalingrad (1949) - Leonid Knyazev
Stalingrad (1989) - Sergei Garmash.

Yakov Pavlov is mentioned in the Call of Duty PC game in the "Pavlov" campaign.

Born in the village of Krestovaya, now the Valdai district of the Novgorod region, graduated from elementary school, worked in agriculture. From there he was drafted into the Red Army in 1938. He met the Great Patriotic War in combat units in the Kovel region, as part of the troops of the Southwestern Front, who fought heavy defensive battles on the territory of Ukraine.

In 1942 he was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev. He took part in defensive battles on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya.F. Pavlov was on reorganization in the city of Kamyshin, where he was appointed commander of the machine gun section of the 7th company. In September 1942 - in the battles for Stalingrad, carried out reconnaissance missions.

On the evening of September 27, 1942, Ya.F. Pavlov received a combat mission from the company commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in a 4-storey building overlooking January 9 Square (the central square of the city) and occupying an important tactical position. With three fighters (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Alexandrov), he managed to knock the Germans out of the building and completely capture it. Soon the group received reinforcements, ammunition, a telephone line. Together with the platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders reached 24 people. Far from immediately, it was possible to dig a trench and evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house.

The fascist invaders continuously attacked the building, tried to smash it with artillery and air bombs. Skillfully maneuvering the forces of a small "garrison", Ya.F. Pavlov avoided heavy losses and for almost two months did not allow the enemy to break through to the Volga.

On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front (see Operation Uranus) launched a counteroffensive. On November 25, during the attack, Ya.F. Pavlov was wounded in the leg. He lay in the hospital, then fought as a gunner and commander of the reconnaissance section in the artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts, reached Stettin. He was awarded two orders of the Red Star, medals. Shortly after the end of the war (June 17, 1945), junior lieutenant Ya.F. Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (medal No. 6775). He was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946.

After demobilization, he worked in Novgorod, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU. Three times he was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution. He repeatedly came to Stalingrad (now Volgograd), met with the inhabitants of the city, who survived the war and restored it from ruins. In 1980 Ya.F. Pavlov was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd".

In Veliky Novgorod, in a boarding school named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is a Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsa microdistrict, Beregovaya Street, 44).

Ya.F. Pavlov was buried in the alley of heroes of the Western cemetery of Veliky Novgorod. The version that Ya.F. Pavlov did not die in 1981, but became the confessor of the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Fr. Kirill has no basis - this is his namesake, although in the past he was also the defender of Stalingrad.