Born April 18, 1923 in Surgut. A native Siberian, a native of an ancient Cossack family. Since childhood, Ivan's soul was drawn to romance, poetry, music, so from the age of 16 he was engaged in cultural and educational work: he took silent films to the villages and was himself engaged in dubbing. In the fall of 1941, he drove to Laryak and spent the winter there - showing films around yurts and villages. In the winter of 1942, he received a summons to the active Red Army. I was able to leave Laryak only in May, when the river opened up. In the same month, on the first steamer, eighteen-year-old Ivan Andreevich set off to defend his homeland. First, he was sent to the anti-aircraft artillery regiment in Omsk, where he studied for a year and received the rank of sergeant. Combat path: took part in the defense of Moscow, liberated Crimea, served on the border with Turkey. The command noticed a well-aimed Siberian rifleman, and Ivan Andreevich and his colleagues underwent special intelligence training. In February 1945, at the Yalta Conference, among others, he provided protection for political leaders of three powers - the USA, England and the USSR. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he remained in intelligence. Awards: Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." He returned to Surgut in May 1948 and, having received a referral from the district party committee, worked as director of the House of Culture. He opened an amateur theater, the actors of which were teachers, doctors - the local intelligentsia. Ivan Andreevich was a very active and fearless person. In March 1957, from a burning residential building on Peschanaya Street, he carried three children: Tanya, Seryozha and Volodya Laverkovykh. For this act I.A. Kaidalov was awarded the medal "For courage in the fire". In 1958 he created a brass band. After ten years of work in culture, he left for Khanty-Mansiysk to study as a captain-mechanic of the fleet: by that time, he and his wife, also with hereditary Cossack Domnika Yakovlevna Parunina, had six children growing up, and the navy paid more. Ivan Andreevich devoted the next decades of his life to river transport. When I worked in the timber industry, I rafted rafts on a boat, carried food to the sites. At the age of 70, from the post of captain of a ship belonging to Surgutgazprom LLC, he went on a well-deserved rest. He passed away on August 17, 2001. He was buried in Surgut.
