Hero of the Soviet Union (1919-1984). Born in the Surgut region. After graduating from high school, he studied at the history department of the Ural State University (Sverdlovsk), at the beginning of the war he worked in industry, then was sent as a teacher to the Tobolsk district. In 1942 he was called up for military service. He studied at the courses of lieutenants in Novosibirsk. In 1943 he was sent to the front. He took part in the Battle of Kursk, in the crossing of the Dnieper, in the liberation of Belarus. He distinguished himself in September 1943 when crossing the Dnieper. He was among the first to reach the shore with a group of fighters. In this battle, being wounded, I.V. Korolkov continued to pave the way for the advancing soldiers with machine-gun fire, during the battle he personally destroyed about a hundred German soldiers. On January 15, 1944, for exceptional courage, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After demobilization, Ivan Vasilyevich served in the prosecutor's office of the Vagaysky district, Tyumen, Dagestan. Graduated from the Pyatigorsk Pedagogical Institute, was engaged in scientific and pedagogical activities. He worked as rector of the Chita Pedagogical Institute, dean and head of the department of the Smolensk Pedagogical Institute. As a specialist in higher education, he was sent to work in the People's Republic of China. Candidate of Historical Sciences, co-author of a textbook on the history of the USSR in German for schoolchildren of the German Democratic Republic.
