Background
PAVLOV, Ivan was born on June 25, 1922 in village Boriso-Romanovtsy, Kustanay Oblast. Son of a peasant.
PAVLOV, Ivan was born on June 25, 1922 in village Boriso-Romanovtsy, Kustanay Oblast. Son of a peasant.
1949 graduate Frunze Military Academy.
From 1940 in Soviet Army. During World War 2 pilot, then flight commander. Navigator, then commander of an assault air force regt on Kalinin, Centr and 1st Baltic Fronts.
Flew some 200 missions.
Communist Party member from 1943.