Biography of Purov Ivan

Born on October 6 in the village of Zaruchevye, now the Tikhvinsky district of the Leningrad region, in the family of a worker. Graduated 7 classes. He worked as a roofer in the city of Sestroretsk, Leningrad region. In the Navy since the year. In November, Ivan Perov was enrolled in the super-warning military service, and at the end of the courses of elders of groups at the S.

Kirov, from March to April, served as the foreman of the Group of the steering plots of the D-6 of the Black Sea Fleet. For success in the combat and political training of I. in February, he was awarded the military rank of "Michman". Since April, Michman of Perov I. in this post, he met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, and in the future composition of the PL crew participated in the heroic defense of the hero city of Sevastopol and the liberation of the Crimea, performing the military tasks of carrying out sentinel service, setting minefields, and violation of the enemy naval messages.

During the Sevastopol defense of the L-4, with the participation of I. Perov made seven transport flights, delivering to Sevastopol about and tons of ammunition, tons of food, 27 tons of fuel and evacuated a person. During the war years, the L-4 submarine made ten mine productions, putting two hundred mines, on which the transport of Shipka was blown up, the gross-ton-ton depth of Redzhile Karol 1, the CNR barge, the displacement of Brutto tons.

Actions on enemy communications, “L -4” damaged the Frederick tanker with its torpedo, the displacement of gross tons, and by artillery fire sent two schooners to the bottom - “Hudai Bahri” and “Gurpinar” and greatly damaged the large landing barge “f” ... in all the campaigns, despite the difficult navigation conditions, Botsman Ivan Perov, controlling horizontal rudders, clearly held the submarine at a given depth when performing mineral supplies, ensured the secrecy of swimming plugs when meeting with enemy ships and optimal conditions for a torpedo volley at the time of the attack, maintaining composure and confidence in actions in difficult situations.

In addition to campaigns on his boat, the midshipman Perov made two combat campaigns on the PL "C", and also went to sea on other ships, taking part in their tests after major repairs and when joining in line. During the fighting on the Black Sea, he participated in combat campaigns, during which 7 enemy vessels were sunk. In the last combat campaign, which took place from April 15 to May 15, when the L-4 crew was given the task of making the blockade of Crimea when the Soviet troops occurred, fodder horizontal rudders failed on the submarine.

Their repair was organized by I. Risking to stay in the water with urgent immersion of the submarine, the brave midshipman, along with one of the crew members in a record short time, eliminated the fault that that had arisen, thereby ensuring the implementation of the combat mission.

At the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Black Sea Fleet: in a separate educational division, the 1st Sevastopol Red Banner Brigade of submarines, in the 2nd division of submarines of the Odessa Navy. Since the year, Michman Perov I. worked as deputy director of the sanatorium, then up to a year was a boatswain on the vessels of foreign swimming of the Black Sea shipping shipping - Chernihiv, Labinsk, Salavat, Captain Plaushevsky.

He lived in the hero city of Odessa. He died on January 26. He was buried in the Tairovsky cemetery in Odessa. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, two orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two orders of the Red Star, medals. In Odessa, a memorial plaque was installed on the house in which I. Perov lived. From the Political District of the head of the Political Administration of the Black Sea Fleet, July: “He is known among submariners as the most experienced boatswain and a keen signalman.

More than once, being an observer, Perov discovered the enemy’s boats and aircraft, warned the commander in time about the hazard