Yakov Pavlov

Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov was a Red Army sergeant who joined in 1938. Pavlov went on to fight in the Second World War, most notably during the Battle of Stalingrad, where he captured a four-story apartment block, and held the structure for two months against German infantry and armored attacks. The building Pavlov defended would become known as "Pavlov's House", and Pavlov would go on to be declared a Hero of the Soviet Union, and go on to serve through the rest of the Second World War.