Tuhia he whakamāramatanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Ivan Dmitrievich Pavlov i te 8 o Hepetema, 1919 ki Makovskiye Vyselki, Ryazan Oblast, ki tētahi whānau pāmu. Whai muri i tana whakaoti i te whare wananga hangarau, i mahi ia hei tohunga hangarau i tetahi wheketere whakarewa. I mahi a Pavlov i roto i te ope taua i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, e ono tau te roa, i te Pakanga o te Soviet-Finnish
I uru hoki ia ki te Pakanga o Stalingrad. I whakawhiwhia ki a ia te mētara me te taitara o "Hero o te Soviet Union" mo tana mahi ki te tiaki o Stalingrad.