Born October 10, 1908 in a large peasant family in the village. Repolovo (now Khanty-Mansiysk region). In 1922 he graduated from the 4th grade of the local elementary school. He worked in agriculture. In 1930, together with his family, he joined the Red October collective farm, where he worked until October 1932. Then, until May 1934. worked as a statistician in the Samarovskiy regional union, in May of the same year he was sent to a ten-month course of economic planners at the Tomsk educational plant. After their successful completion, he returned to his former place of work and worked there until December 1938. Then he worked as a planner-economist in the Ostyako-Vogulsky (now Khanty-Mansiysk) city council, in a fishing collective farm. In 1939 he moved to Surgut, where he was admitted to the trade department of the Surgut regional consumer union as a commodity expert, then transferred to the position of a planner. On July 19, 1941, Pyotr Prokopyevich was mobilized into the Red Army. Four of his brothers also went to the front. On March 1, 1942, he was sent to the active army. Combat path: participated in battles on the North-Western Front. On August 13, 1942 he was wounded. Little is known about the circumstances of the death of the Red Army soldier Petrov. After the war, his colleague came to Surgut and said that a group of scouts, which included Pyotr Prokopyevich, had been sent to the front line. The entire group was killed. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, four brothers of Peter Prokopyevich were also killed.
