Career
August 1942, as German troops advanced into the Caucasus, together with his lather, mother and younger brother joined partisan detachment. Devised techniques of partisan mining and sabotage against the German troops: his father, P. K. Ignatov (partisan alias: "Batya”) described the operations of the partisan detachment in his book Zapislti partizana (A Partisan's Notes) (1949).¡wards: Hero of the Sot Union (1943, posthumously):.