The Udmurt land is proud of them. Klevtsov I

Ivan Vasilyevich Klevtsov was born on January 19, 1923 in the village of Lastochkino, Alnashsky district of the Ukrainian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, into a peasant family. Russian.

In 1938, in the village of Alnashi, he graduated from a seven-year school and entered the Sarapul Cooperative College. There, in 1939, he joined the Komsomol, studied at the flying club, and in 1940, in the direction of the Sarapul district military registration and enlistment office, he became a cadet at the Balashov Military Aviation Pilot School, graduating from school in 1942.

Since November 1942, attack pilot Klevtsov on the Kalinin Front. Participated in battles on the Volkhov, Western and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. He made 186 combat missions, destroyed 6 enemy aircraft, 18 tanks, 43 vehicles, a lot of other equipment, as well as enemy personnel. Deputy squadron commander, navigator of the 2nd squadron of the 131st Guards Attack Air Regiment of the 7th Guards Attack Air Division of the 5th Air Army, Klevtsov ended the war on Hungarian soil.

On August 14, 1943, Klevtsov was shot down during a combat mission. For more than two weeks, I made my way through enemy-occupied territory to the front line. On August 30, in serious condition, he was picked up by the advancing Red Army. After recovery he returned to duty.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 15, 1946, for the excellent performance of command assignments and the courage and heroism of the guard, Lieutenant Ivan Vasilyevich Klevtsov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

He was also awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Red Star, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the Patriotic War, I and II degrees, many medals and foreign awards.

I. V. Klevtsov - participant of the Victory Parade in Moscow. After a short leave home, he continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR until 1979. In 1947 he graduated from the Higher Officer Flight Tactical Courses, and in 1956 from the Air Force Academy.

In 1979, Klevtsov retired with the rank of Major General. Lived in Moscow. He died on June 10, 1999, and was buried at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

The name of I. Klevtsov is immortalized on the Memorial Stele to the Heroes of the Soviet Union at the Eternal Flame in the city of Izhevsk. In 2013, a memorial plaque with the name of the hero was installed on the building of the Alnash secondary school.

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Hero of the Soviet Union

TO Levtsov Ivan Vasilievich - deputy squadron commander of the 131st Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (7th Guards Assault Aviation Division, 5th Air Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front), guard lieutenant.

Born on January 19, 1923 in the village of Lastochkino, Alnashsky district (Udmurt Republic) in a peasant family. Russian. Became a member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU in 1944. In 1938, in the village of Alnashi, he graduated from a seven-year school and entered the Sarapul Cooperative College. In parallel with his studies at the technical school, he studied at the flying club. In April 1940, in the direction of the Sarapul District Military Commissariat, he entered the Balashov Military Aviation School of Pilots, from which he graduated in 1942, receiving the rank of sergeant. From spring to autumn 1942, together with other school graduates, he mastered the Il-2 attack aircraft. After completing the training course, he was sent to the 704th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 232nd Assault Aviation Division.

He fought on the Kalinin, Volkhov, Western, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts.

On August 14, 1943, he was shot down during a combat mission. For more than two weeks, I made my way through enemy-occupied territory to the front line. On August 30, in serious condition, he was picked up by troops of the advancing Red Army. After recovery he returned to duty.

By February 13, 1945, V.I. Klevtsov made 132 combat missions for reconnaissance, photography and bombing attacks on railway trains, firing positions, strongholds, concentrations of enemy troops and equipment. Personally destroyed 18 tanks, 3 railway trains, 4 ammunition depots, 5 anti-aircraft artillery batteries, 8 mortar batteries, 11 small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery batteries, 14 pillboxes and bunkers, 43 vehicles with cargo, 83 carts, over a battalion of soldiers and officers, damaged and destroyed 6 aircraft.

U KAZAK of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946 for the excellent fulfillment of command assignments, and the courage and courage shown to the guard lieutenant Klevtsov Ivan Vasilievich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 9020).

In total, during the war years he made 186 combat missions.

On June 24, 1945, Guard Senior Lieutenant I.V. Klevtsov, along with other best pilots of the regiment, took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. After a short leave home, I.V. Klevtsov continued to serve in aviation. At the end of 1946, he was sent to the one-year Air Force Higher Officer Flight and Tactical Course. After the course, he was appointed squadron commander in an aviation regiment. In 1953, he became a student of the command faculty of the Air Force Academy, after which he was appointed deputy commander of a bomber regiment in Central Asia.

In 1960, he was transferred to Tashkent for staff work. From 1962 to 1965, I.V. Klevtsov was involved in organizing the search and rescue service at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In October 1964, he directly participated in the search and evacuation of the crew of the Voskhod spacecraft, consisting of V.M. Komarov, K.P. Feoktistov and B.B. Egorov. In 1966, I.V. Klevtsov was transferred to serve in the group of Soviet troops in the GDR, and two years later - to Moscow at the Air Force General Headquarters.

In 1979, due to illness, he was retired with the rank of major general.

Lived in Moscow, died on June 10, 1999. He was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery (section 4).

Awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the Red Star, “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd degree, medals, foreign awards Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania.

TO Levtsov Ivan Vasilievich - deputy squadron commander of the 131st Guards Assault Aviation Regiment (7th Guards Assault Aviation Division, 5th Air Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front), guard lieutenant.
Born on January 19, 1923 in the village of Lastochkino, now Alnashsky district of the Udmurt Republic, into a peasant family. Russian. Became a member of the CPSU(b)/CPSU in 1944. In 1938, in the village of Alnashi, he graduated from a seven-year school and entered the Sarapul Cooperative College. In parallel with his studies at the technical school, he studied at the flying club. In April 1940, in the direction of the Sarapul District Military Commissariat, he entered the Balashov Military Aviation School of Pilots, from which he graduated in 1942 with the rank of sergeant. From spring to autumn 1942, together with other school graduates, he mastered the Il-2 attack aircraft. After completing the training course, he was sent to the 704th Assault Aviation Regiment of the 232nd Assault Aviation Division.
He fought on the Kalinin, Volkhov, Western, and 2nd Ukrainian fronts.
On August 14, 1943, he was shot down during a combat mission. For more than two weeks, I made my way through enemy-occupied territory to the front line. On August 30, in serious condition, he was picked up by troops of the advancing Red Army. After recovery he returned to duty.
By February 13, 1945, V.I. Klevtsov made 132 combat missions for reconnaissance, photography and bombing strikes against railway trains, firing positions, strongholds, concentrations of enemy troops and equipment. Personally destroyed 18 tanks, 3 railway trains, 4 ammunition depots, 5 anti-aircraft artillery batteries, 8 mortar batteries, 11 small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery batteries, 14 pillboxes and bunkers, 43 vehicles with cargo, 83 carts, over a battalion of soldiers and officers, damaged and destroyed 6 aircraft.
U KAZAK of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946 for the excellent fulfillment of command assignments, and the courage and courage shown to the guard lieutenant Klevtsov Ivan Vasilievich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 9020).
In total, during the war years he made 186 combat missions.
On June 24, 1945, Guard Senior Lieutenant I.V. Klevtsov, along with other best pilots of the regiment, took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow.
After a short leave home, I.V. Klevtsov continued to serve in the Air Force. At the end of 1946 he was sent to the one-year Air Force Higher Officer Flight and Tactical Course. After the course, he was appointed squadron commander in an aviation regiment. Since 1953, he was a student of the command department of the Air Force Academy, after which he was appointed deputy commander of a bomber air regiment in Central Asia.
In 1960 he was transferred to Tashkent for staff work. From 1962 to 1965 he was involved in organizing the search and rescue service at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In October 1964, he directly participated in the search and evacuation of the crew of the Voskhod spacecraft, consisting of V.M. Komarova, K.P. Feoktistov and B.B. Egorova.
In 1966, he was transferred to serve in the group of Soviet troops in the GDR, and two years later - to Moscow, to the Air Force General Headquarters.
In 1979, due to illness, he was retired with the rank of major general.
Lived in Moscow, died on June 10, 1999. He was buried at Troekurovskoye Cemetery (site No. 4).
Awarded the Order of Lenin (05/15/1946), 2 Orders of the Red Banner (07/23/1944; 12/25/1944), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (03/26/1945), 2 Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (10/08/1943; 03/11/1985 ), Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (06/01/1945), Red Star, “For Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces”, 3rd degree, medals, foreign awards of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Name I.V. Klevtsov is immortalized on the Memorial Stele to the Heroes of the Soviet Union at the Eternal Flame in Izhevsk. In the city of Sarapul, memorial plaques were installed on the building of the former cooperative technical school and in the village of Alnashi on the building of the secondary school.
Works: Klevtsov I.V. Notes of the “Thrice Risen One”. – Izhevsk: “Udmurtia”, 1989.

At the beginning of November 1942, the 704th Assault Aviation Regiment, where Sergeant I.V. Klevtsov arrived, flew as part of the 3rd Air Army to the Kalinin Front, in the area of the city of Ostashkov. I.V. Klevtsov made his first combat flight on December 3, 1942. The 232nd Attack Air Division did not have to fight on the Kalinin Front for long: at the end of December, the division was withdrawn from the 3rd Air Army and sent to the Volkhov Front as part of the 14th Air Army. At this time, an offensive operation of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts was being prepared to break the blockade of Leningrad. On January 18, 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. By mid-February 1943, during his stay on the Volkhov Front, I.V. Klevtsov had 12 sorties.
On February 19, 1943, a group of 6 Ilovs, including Klevtsov’s plane, flew to the Maryina Pustyn area. While attacking artillery positions, Klevtsov noticed stacks of green boxes and realized that this was an ammunition depot. He dived onto the target, opened fire from rockets, cannons and machine guns at artillery positions, and dropped the entire stock of bombs on an ammunition depot, which blew up into the air. While exiting the attack, he was shot down by German fighters and made an emergency landing with the engine inoperative on a frozen swamp in no man's land. Klevtsov and his air gunner Pokrovsky, in 30-degree frost, made their way through snow-covered forests for two days until they reached their own.
A few days later, Klevtsov, like other crew commanders - sergeants, was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant and given officer's shoulder straps. In March 1943, the regiment was transferred to reserve. Klevtsov was transferred to the position of senior pilot. The stay in the reserve continued until the end of May 1943.
At the beginning of June 1943, the 2nd Attack Air Corps was redeployed to the Western Front and became part of the 1st Air Army under General M.M. Gromova.
On July 5, a grandiose battle began on the Kursk Bulge. On August 7, the 2nd squadron, in which Klevtsov served, struck an enemy column with troops and equipment moving towards Yelnya. Six German vehicles were burned, and a lot of enemy personnel were destroyed.
The next day, in the Elninsky and Spas-Demensky directions, the troops of the Western Front went on the offensive.
On August 14, a group of 12 Ilovs, including Klevtsov, flew out to launch an assault on German positions in the main defense line on the western bank of the Ugra River (in the Yelnya area). Klevtsov was given an additional task: to photograph the results of the squadron’s combat operations and the front line of the enemy’s defense. Even as they approached the target, the group came under heavy artillery fire. The pilots fired at enemy artillery positions with rockets, as well as cannons and machine guns, then dropped bombs on a group of tanks.
Klevtsov brought the plane out of the dive into horizontal flight and was about to turn on the camera, when suddenly there was an explosion, a strong blow, and his plane began to fall with the right wing broken off and the cockpit canopy torn off. The pilot jumped out with a parachute, which opened near the ground. He landed close to the position of German anti-aircraft gunners. Firing back fire from the Germans who rushed towards him, Klevtsov hid in the forest. For two weeks at night, bypassing villages occupied by the Germans, he made his way to the east, hoping to cross the front line. When he approached the front line, he realized that he would not be able to cross it - the German battle formations were too dense.
His condition worsened hour by hour. My legs, which had caught a cold while spending the night on the wet grass, ached excruciatingly. At times he could not step on them, then he could only crawl. He no longer felt like eating, but in order to somehow support his diminishing strength, he chewed grass and leaves and gnawed on his waist belt. For 15 days he could no longer walk and crawled on all fours. On the afternoon of August 28, he met two women in the forest - Matryona Khokhlova and Praskovya Terekhova - who were collecting lingonberries. They, together with the 13-year-old boy Vanya Gromakov, fed the pilot for several days and hid him from the Germans.
On August 30, when our troops entered the village, our artillerymen picked him up and sent him to the hospital in Maryina Roshcha. Soon he was transferred to one of the hospitals near Moscow. The excruciating pain gradually subsided, and after some time he could already manage without crutches. Rising to his feet, he demanded to be sent to the regiment. But the medical commission, recognizing him as extremely weak and exhausted, sent him to the Yegoryevsky rest home for further treatment. After further treatment, he was discharged, but was sent to the reserve of the Western Front for testing. A whole group was heading there, and the leader of the group had one travel order for everyone. The desire to quickly find himself in the regiment, with his fighting friends, was so great that Klevtsov decided to take a desperate step. He fell behind the group - without a ticket, without money - he set off on his own and the next day he safely arrived at the headquarters of the 2nd Assault Aviation Corps, and then to his regiment.
There he learned that the 232nd Assault Aviation Division had been renamed the 7th Guards, and the 704th Assault Aviation Regiment had become the 131st Guards. Here he was told that even before he was shot down, he was presented with the Order of the Red Banner. Considered dead on August 14, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. They were going to send this award to his parents, but they didn’t have time, and the funeral had already left. He was immediately awarded the order. Soon he was appointed flight commander.
In March 1944, the 2nd Attack Air Corps received an order to redeploy to the 2nd Ukrainian Front and become part of the 5th Air Army. The relocation was greatly delayed due to the spring thaw. The pilots spent weeks at intermediate airfields. Meanwhile, the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front successfully carried out the Uman-Botashan operation, as a result of which a significant territory of Right Bank Ukraine and Moldova was liberated. The troops of the Soviet Army crossed the state border and continued fighting on the territory of Romania, which at that time was an ally of Nazi Germany. One spring day, the pilots were informed that the regiment's next base was already on enemy territory, in Romania.
On May 20, the regiment concentrated on a field airfield near the Romanian village of Salcea. Intelligence established that the Germans were preparing to launch a counterattack on the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front near Iasi. At dawn on May 29, aviation from the 5th Air Army unexpectedly struck the Roman and Khushi airfields, where the largest concentration of German aircraft was noted. As a result of this strike, 35 fascist aircraft were destroyed and 25 damaged.
The next day, after artillery preparation, enemy infantry and tank formations counterattacked our troops. For eight days the Nazis launched continuous attacks, but our troops did not retreat from their positions. The stormtroopers also contributed greatly to this. Finally, the German command abandoned active hostilities in this area, and a rather long lull ensued, which lasted until the start of the Iasi-Kishinev operation. During the period of calm, V.I. Klevtsov flew out every morning to reconnaissance of fortified areas, troops and enemy equipment.
At noon on August 19, the Ilov squadron, under the cover of Yak-7 fighters, took off with the aim of destroying a column of tanks and vehicles with troops coming from the Khushi area north to Iasi. Guard Lieutenant Klevtsov that day fell to lead the last four attack aircraft. The planes crossed the front line, maneuvering and overcoming the barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fire. The head of the column appeared about ten kilometers south of Iasi. Having struck the convoy, the group headed for their airfield. At this moment, the damaged engine of Klevtsov’s plane failed, and the plane crashed in the location of the Romanian troops. Klevtsov and his air gunner Vorobyov, who lost consciousness from hitting the ground, were captured. However, his stay in captivity was short-lived. A few days later it became known that the fascist regime had been overthrown in Romania, it announced its withdrawal from the war against the states of the anti-Hitler coalition and declared war on Germany. On August 30, Klevtsov and Vorobyov were handed over to Soviet troops. On September 3, Klevtsov was already with his fighting friends. On this day he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
On the morning of September 21, the regiment flew to Fegerash airfield. Soon an officer from the operations department of the division headquarters arrived with combat orders and fresh data on the enemy. Groups of attack aircraft immediately flew to the areas of Turda and Cluj, where our troops met the most organized resistance of the Nazis. Klevtsov carried out aerial reconnaissance of enemy troops and equipment in a given area. The Germans fired intense fire from medium-caliber anti-aircraft artillery at the planes, so they had to continuously carry out anti-aircraft maneuvers. At the same time, he carefully peered into the area, but could not detect anything significant. The only thing that attracted his attention was the closely packed piles (there were at least fifty of them) on the gentle slope of the hillock. He decided to test them with fire. I just hit the heaps when suddenly everything below came to life: it turned out that tanks were hiding under the heaps, and the anti-aircraft guns opened heavy fire. He immediately transmitted all the intelligence data by radio to the control point - this allowed the ground forces to prepare in a timely manner and repel the enemy’s tank counterattack.
In the second half of October, fierce battles on the ground and in the air took place on the approaches to Debrecen. The Germans not only stubbornly resisted, but in one of the areas south of Debrecen they managed to encircle part of our troops.
Klevtsov was instructed to survey a vast territory and accurately establish the location of our encircled troops, as well as identify groupings, areas of concentration and the nature of the enemy’s actions. Klevtsov took off as the leader of the Ilov pair, they were covered by four “Lavochkin”. On approaching the target area, our planes were met by four Messerschmitts. A pair of Lavochkins engaged them in aerial combat, and the rest of the planes continued their flight, scanning the area. Fifteen minutes later they were attacked again by four Messers. The second pair of our fighters rushed across them. Ili conducted aerial reconnaissance without cover.
Suddenly, Klevtsov saw a large concentration of enemy troops and military equipment nearby and decided to attack it. As a result of the attack, two tanks and three vehicles were destroyed. About ten kilometers south of Debrecen, three more Messers attacked Ily. Klevtsov managed to catch and shoot down the leader; the other two attacked the attack aircraft from the rear hemisphere. Air gunner Gorbunov caught one “Messer”, and he, following his leader, crashed into the ground. The third “Messer” soon disappeared, having used up its ammunition. Having completed the reconnaissance, Klevtsov reported all the intelligence data by radio.
On October 29, 1944, Soviet troops began the Budapest offensive operation. The troops of the 46th Army and the 2nd Mechanized Corps advanced 30–40 kilometers in two days of the offensive, and the 7th Guards Army reached the western bank of the Tisza, captured a large bridgehead there and soon occupied the city of Szolnok. The Order of Suvorov, 3rd degree, appeared on the regiment's guards banner. The most distinguished pilots were also awarded. Klevtsov was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
On November 17, the regiment moved to the Tissa-Vezheni field airfield, near Szolnok. Regular flights were hampered by continuous rain. Klevtsov, as an aerial reconnaissance officer, also worked under unfavorable weather conditions. Finally the weather improved somewhat. On December 5, the offensive of our troops was resumed. The battle for Budapest began at dawn on December 20th. Throughout January and almost half of February 1945, aircraft of the 5th Air Army actively assisted the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in eliminating the enemy group surrounded in Budapest. At the same time, the attack aircraft provided assistance to the troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, repelling counterattacks of tanks, infantry and fascist aviation in the outer ring of encirclement, especially in the area of the city of Székesfehérvár. At this time, Klevtsov rarely flew on aerial reconnaissance: he was entrusted only with particularly important missions, most often he had to lead groups.
One day, Klevtsov was assigned, as part of a flight, to carry out a bomb attack on the railway station in Buda, where, according to intelligence data, unloading work was underway. For this they decided to use captured 250-kilogram bombs. When approaching the target, Klevtsov discovered at the station two long trains without locomotives, several vehicles and people unloading the cars and reloading some boxes that looked like ammunition onto military trucks. He dropped bombs from a height of 500 meters. Suddenly his plane was thrown up with such force that he hit his head on the canopy. When he looked down, instead of the station he saw a torn wasteland - no station, no carriages, no trucks, no people... It became clear why the plane was tossed up like that: the carriages contained explosives and ammunition, which, having detonated from the explosion of bombs, literally They swept away the railway station and everything that was on it.
On February 13, 1945, almost two months of fighting to eliminate the enemy group surrounded in Budapest ended. The 131st Guards Regiment received the name "Budapest". V.I. Klevtsov was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner.
On March 16, 1945, troops of the 3rd and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts began the Vienna offensive operation. As deputy squadron commander, Klevtsov had to constantly lead groups into battle. The accuracy of the strikes was high, the command almost every time noted the excellent work of the groups and expressed gratitude to the attack aircraft over the radio.
On April 4, formations of the 7th Guards Army, in cooperation with sailors of the Danube Military Flotilla, took Bratislava by storm. Our troops crushed the Nazis on all sectors of the front and moved uncontrollably to the west. Every day, and more than once a day, the pilots took to the skies - they destroyed the enemy in the suburbs of Vienna and at the Danube crossings, and helped ground troops in the liberation of the Czechoslovak city of Brno.

(1999-06-10 ) (76 years old) Place of death Affiliation

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Ivan Vasilievich Klevtsov(-) - Major General of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ().

Biography

In total, during his participation in the battles, Klevtsov made 186 combat missions. Participated in the Victory Parade. He continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1947, he graduated from the Higher Officer Flight Tactical Courses, and later from the command department of the Air Force Academy. In 1979, Klevtsov retired with the rank of Major General. Lived in Moscow. He died on June 10, 1999, and was buried at the Troekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow.

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Ivan Vasilievich Klevtsov(1923-1999) - Major General of the Soviet Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1946).

Biography

Ivan Klevtsov was born on January 19, 1923 in the village of Lastochkino (now Alnashsky district of Udmurtia). He graduated from a seven-year school, after which he studied at the Sarapul Cooperative Technical School, and at the same time studied at the flying club. In April 1940, Klevtsov was drafted into the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1942, he graduated from the Balashov Military Aviation Pilot School. Since the autumn of the same year - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He took part in battles on the Kalinin, Volkhov, Western and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. On August 14, 1943, he was shot down, but two weeks later he managed to reach his own people.

By February 1945, Guard Lieutenant Ivan Klevtsov was deputy squadron commander of the 131st Guards Assault Aviation Regiment of the 7th Guards Assault Air Division of the 3rd Guards Assault Aviation Corps of the 5th Air Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. By that time, he had made 132 combat sorties for aerial reconnaissance, photographing and bombing concentrations of enemy military equipment and manpower, and his important objects. As a result of Klevtsov's actions, enemy troops suffered heavy losses.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 15, 1946, for “excellent fulfillment of command assignments, displaying courage and courage,” Guard Lieutenant Ivan Klevtsov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal number 9020.

He was also awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree, Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the Red Star, “For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR” 3rd degree, a number of medals and foreign awards