Background
He was born on 30 October (11 November ) in 1907 in the village of Shapura, now Vitebsk district, Vitebsk region of Belarus, in a peasant family.
He was born on 30 October (11 November ) in 1907 in the village of Shapura, now Vitebsk district, Vitebsk region of Belarus, in a peasant family.
Ivan Sobolev studied at Leningrad Military Engineering School in 1931.
From 1952 he studied at The Higher Officer Engineering School.
After graduation from school, Ivan worked at the tool factory.
In the Red Army since 1927.
On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since 1941.
The commander of the 19th separate motorized pontoon-and-bridge battalion (the 7th Guards Army, the Steppe Front), Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Sobolev, skillfully organized on September 29, 1943, the crossing of the army troops across the Dnieper River near the village of Soloshino, Verkhnedneprovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, which are firmly entrenched on the seized bridgehead.
After the war, I.P. Sobolev continued to serve in the army.
Since 1955, he was sent to reserve.
He lived in the city of Vitebsk. He died on October 27, 1989.