Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov (; – 18 November 1941) was a
Soviet
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general and a posthumous
Hero of the Soviet Union
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, known for his command of the
316th Rifle Division
The 316th Rifle Division was formed as a Red Army division during World War II. The division was initially formed in July 1941, renamed the 8th Guards Rifle Division on 18 November 1941. The division was recreated at Vjasniki in July 1942, fough ...
during the
defense of Moscow at the
Second World War
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.
Biography
Early life
Panfilov was born in
Petrovsk. After the death of his mother in 1904, the child was forced to quit school and started working in a local shop when he was eleven years old. His father died in 1912.
[Panfikov's curriculum vitae](_blank)
, quoted in an article by Dmitry Yazov
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov (; 8 November 1924 – 25 February 2020) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August cou ...
.
In 1915, during the
First World War
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, Panfilov was drafted into the
Imperial Russian Army
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and stationed in the 638th Olpinsk Infantry Regiment. Afterwards, he was transferred to the
Southwestern Front, where he was promoted to sergeant. During 1917, following the
February Revolution
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, Panfilov was elected by his fellow soldiers to be a member of the Regimental
Soviet
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.
Civil War
After the
October Revolution
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and the beginning of the
Russian Civil War
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, Panfilov volunteered into the nascent
Red Army
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in 1918, where he was stationed as a platoon commander in the
25th Rifle Division under the command of
Vasily Chapayev
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev (; 5 September 1919) was a Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War.
Biography
Chapayev was born into a poor peasant family in a village called , now part of Cheboksary. During World War I ...
. In March 1919, the division was sent to the
Urals
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Cossack
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White
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army led by
Alexander Dutov
Alexander Ilyich Dutov (; – 7 February 1921) was a Russian Cossack ataman and lieutenant general who led the Orenburg Cossacks in a revolt against the Bolsheviks.
Biography
Dutov was born in Kazalinsk in Syr-Darya Oblast (now Kazaly ...
, a follower of Admiral
Aleksandr Kolchak
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. In the autumn, Panfilov's regiment was transferred to the southern city of
Tsaritsyn
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, taking part in the
battle
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against
Anton Denikin
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's forces. During the campaign, Panfilov contacted
typhus
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and had to be evacuated to the rear.
[Michael Parrish. ''Sacrifice of the Generals''. Scarecrow Press, Oxford (2004). . p. 279.]
In April 1920, after recovering, he volunteered to return to active duty. He was assigned as a platoon commander to the 100th Infantry Regiment and fought in the
Polish-Soviet War, joining the
Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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in September (membership number: 0291274).
For his performances during the fighting, Panfilov was awarded the
Order of the Red Banner
The Order of the Red Banner () was the first Soviet military decoration. The Order was established on 16 September 1918, during the Russian Civil War by decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. It was the highest award of S ...
in 1921. Afterwards, Panfilov joined the 183rd Border Battalion in
Ukraine
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and took part in counter-insurgency operations against local guerrillas. In November 1921, he entered the
Sergey Kamenev
Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev (; April 16 Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>Old Style and New Style dates">O.S. April 4 1881 – August 25, 1936) was a Soviet Union">Soviet military leader who reached Komandarm 1st rank.
Kamene ...
Infantry School in
Kiev
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.
In the same year, he married Maria Kolomietz, with whom he had five children: four daughters – Valentina, Evgenia, Galina and Maya – and a son, Vladlen.
After graduating in September 1923, he was posted to the 52nd
Yaroslavl
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Infantry Regiment with the rank of company commander.
Central Asia

In March 1924 Panfilov volunteered for the
campaign against the Basmachi and traveled to the
Turkestan Military District. In April he was given command of a company in the 1st Turkestan Rifle Regiment. In October he was transferred to head the Regimental School. In August 1925 he was returned to the field and later commanded an outpost in the
Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a Mountain range, range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia. They are located at a junction with other notable mountains, namely the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, Kunlun, Hindu Kush and the Himalaya ...
. In April 1928 he was promoted to command a regiment, a post he held for three years.
His involvement in the quelling of the Basmachi revolt gained him his second Order of the Red Banner, awarded in 1929.
In June 1931 Panfilov was appointed commander of the 8th Independent Rifle Battalion. In December 1932 he was transferred to head the 9th Red Banner Mountain Infantry Regiment. From 1935 Panfilov served in an instruction post in the
Vladimir Lenin Red Banner Military Academy in
Tashkent
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.
In September 1937 he was designated the Central Asian Military District's chief of staff. In October 1938 he was assigned as the
military commissar of the
Kyrgyz SSR
The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirghiz SSR), also known as the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kyrgyz SSR), KySSR or Kirgiz Soviet Socialist Republic (Kirgiz SSR), was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of ...
, and promoted to
Combrig on 26 January 1939. On 4 June 1940 he received the rank of Major General.
After
Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 Panfilov began mobilizing reserves to be sent to the front. On 12 July he was assigned as the commander of the
316th Rifle Division
The 316th Rifle Division was formed as a Red Army division during World War II. The division was initially formed in July 1941, renamed the 8th Guards Rifle Division on 18 November 1941. The division was recreated at Vjasniki in July 1942, fough ...
, a new unit being formed in Alma Ata. The division consisted mainly of reservists from the
Kazakh and Kyrgyz Soviet Republics.
Battle of Moscow
On 27 August 1941, the division arrived in
Borovichi
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, near
Leningrad
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, and joined the Fifty-Second Army. On 2 September, it was consigned to the reserve, spending a month in the rear.
On 7 October, after the
Wehrmacht
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commenced
Operation Typhoon
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated H ...
, the division was sent to the Moscow region, where it arrived on the 10th. It was stationed in the left flank of General
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky ( 1896 – 3 August 1968) was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He a ...
's
Sixteenth Army and tasked with defending a 41-kilometer long sector to the south of
Volokolamsk
Volokolamsk () is a town and the administrative center of Volokolamsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, northwest of Moscow. Population: 25,729 (2024 Estimate ...
, a part of the
Mozhaisk fortified line.
On 15 October, the Germans attacked the region. After two weeks of fighting, the 316th was abandoned by the other defenders. Together with the rest of the Sixteenth Army, the division retreated towards Moscow. In spite of suffering heavy casualties, the 316th managed to significantly delay the German advance on the capital, buying time for the defenders of the city. On 11 November, Panfilov was awarded his third Order of the Red Banner for the personal courage he displayed during the fighting. According to historian
Richard Overy
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, Marshal
Georgy Zhukov
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told Panfilov that he would be shot if he were to retreat.
The 316th Division's new line of defense, near the village of Dubosekovo, was overrun by the Germans on 15–16 November; Soviet newspapers later claimed that on the 16th,
twenty-eight soldiers from the division's 1075th Regiment destroyed eighteen German tanks while fighting to the last man, though an investigation by a Soviet military judge in 1948 revealed the tale was exaggerated. The threat to Rokossovsky's flank prompted the
Stavka
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In Imperial Russia ''Stavka'' referred to the administrat ...
to send in the reserve
78th Siberian Rifle Division. The 78th's soldiers were forced to retreat after three days, but the Wehrmacht's advance was slowed down due to the Soviets' resistance and the weather conditions, gradually grinding into a standstill.
On 17 November, the
People's Commissar of Defense passed a decree to grant the 316th the status of a
Guards formation, renaming it the 8th Guards Rifle Division. On the 18th, a group of correspondents visited Panfilov's command post in the village of Guseniovo, and informed him of the resolution. While he briefed the journalists in the open, they came under a mortar attack. Panfilov was killed by a shell splinter. The Defense Commissar's edict was brought into effect on that day.
Legacy
Aftermath
On 23 November, the
8th Guards was awarded the sobriquet ''Panfilovskaya'' in honor of its fallen commander, and its soldiers were henceforth known as "Panfilov's Men" (''Panfilovtsy''). It took part in the Red Army's
counter-offensive which drove the Wehrmacht away from Moscow during December. The division ended the Second World War in Latvia, as part of the forces besieging the
German pocket in Courland.
On 12 April 1942, Panfilov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The general is buried in the
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery () is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site.
History
The cemetery was designed by Ivan Mashkov and inaugurated ...
alongside two other Heroes of the USSR,
Lev Dovator and
Viktor Talalikhin.
Literature
Panfilov's character gained recognition through the book trilogy authored by
Alexander Bek
Alexander Alfredovich Bek (; 2 November 1972), sometimes transliterated from the Russian Cyrillic as Aleksandr Bek or Anglicized to Alexander Beck, was a Soviet novelist and writer.
Biography
Alexander Bek was born on 3 January 1903. The son of a ...
, which described the fighting around Moscow through the eyes of
Baurzhan Momyshuly, Kazakh officer who served under Panfilov in the 316th Division. The books – ''
Volokolamsk Highway
''Volokolamsk Highway'' (Russian: ''Волоколамское шоссе'') is a novel written by Alexandr Bek, published in Russian in 1944, with later translations into English, Hebrew, Spanish, Chinese, German and many other languages during ...
'', ''Several Days'', and ''General Panfilov's Reserve'' – were popular both in the USSR and abroad. In particular, ''Volokolamsk Highway'' had wide influence as a tactical and motivational text within the
Israeli Defense Forces
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, the
Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
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, China's
People's Liberation Army
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, and East Germany's
National People's Army
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The NVA was organized into four branches: the (Ground Forces), the (Navy), the (Air Force) and the (Bord ...
. ''Volokolamsk Highway'' served as one of the settings for an eponymous series of five plays by
Heiner Müller
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, written from 1984 to 1987. The first part, "Russian Opening", was based on
Heinrich von Kleist
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's ''
The Prince of Homburg''. In Müller's reinterpretation, Momyshuly assumes the role of the
Great Elector.
Momyshuly had himself turned to writing after the war, and discussed the battles near Volokolamsk in several works, like ''Moscow Is Behind Us'' and ''Our General, Ivan Panfilov.''
Controversy
The director of
Russia's State Archive of Socio-Political History Sergei Mironenko called the legend of Panfilov's 28 Guardsmen to be a deliberate falsification. On March 16, 2016, Sergei Mironenko left his post after he reached the age limit for civil servants in 65 years. He retained the position of the supervisor of the State Archive. Mironenko claimed that he left his post at his own request, in order to "focus on scientific work": "Do you really think that I would not fight if it was not my decision? ... There is nothing to worry about in my dismissal."
The Russian Culture Minister was quoted saying "even if this story was invented from start to finish, if there had been no Panfilov, if there had been nothing, this is a sacred legend that shouldn't be interfered with. People that do that are filthy scum."
List of places named after Ivan Panfilov
*Geroyev Panfilovtsev Street in
Severnoye Tushino neighborhood, Moscow.
*Panfilov Peak, a 4300-meter high summit in the Kyrgyz
Tien Shan
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Mountains.
*
Panfilov District in
Kazakhstan
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's
Almaty Region
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Geography
...
.
*
Panfilov District in
Kyrgyzstan
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's
Chüy Region
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.
*
Panfilov Park in
Bishkek
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,
Kyrgyzstan
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.
*Panfilov Park in
Almaty
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,
Kazakhstan
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.
*The city of
Zharkent
Jarkent (; ) is a city which serves as the administrative center of Panfilov District in Jetisu Region, southeastern Kazakhstan. It is located near the Usek River, not far from the Ili River. It is also right by the border with Xinjiang, China. T ...
was called "Panfilov" between 1942 and 1991.
*Panfilov
Prospekt, an offshoot of the
Leningradskoye highway
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in
Zelenograd
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, Moscow.
*Panfilov Street in Zelenograd, Moscow.
*Panfilov Street in
Sokol neighborhood, Moscow and
Panfilovskaya station of Moscow Central Ring.
*Panfilov Street in
Volokolamsk
Volokolamsk () is a town and the administrative center of Volokolamsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, northwest of Moscow. Population: 25,729 (2024 Estimate ...
.
*Panfilov Street in
Nakhabino,
Krasnogorsky County.
*Panfilov Street in
Krasnogvardeysky District, Saint Petersburg
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.
*Panfilov Street in
Perm
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**Permsky District, the district
**Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005
**Perm Oblast, a former federal subject of Russia 1938–2005
** Perm Governorate, an administr ...
.
*Panfilov Street in
Saransk
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.
*Panfilov Street in
Taganrog
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Located at the site of a ...
.
*Panfilov Street in
Almaty
Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains ...
.
*Panfilov Street in
Nur-Sultan
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.
*
Panfilov Street in
Bishkek
Bishkek, formerly known as Pishpek (until 1926), and then Frunze (1926–1991), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan ...
*Panfilov Street in
Lutsk
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.
*Panfilov Street in
Dnipropetrovsk
Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper River, Dnipro River, from which it takes its name. Dnipro is t ...
.
*Panfilov Street in
Lipetsk
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.
*Panfilov Street in
Barnaul
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.
*Panfilov Street in
Saratov
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.
Portrayal in the media
Ivan Panfilov has been depicted by the following actors in film and television productions:
* Vsevolod Sanaev in the 1968 film ''Moscow is Behind Us.''
*
Georgi Burkov in the 1984 TV mini-series ''Volokolamsk Highway''.
Volokolamsk Highway
'. kino-teatr.ru.
* Konstantin Stepnakov in the 1985 film ''
Battle of Moscow
The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated H ...
''.
* Maksim Abrosimov in the 2016 film ''
Panfilov's 28 Men''.
References
Annotations
External links
Ivan Panfilovon the Heroes of the USSR's official website.
An English-language biographyof Panfilov.
Ivan Panfilov's last photographin the Russian State Archive.
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
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