· Day 463 of 1418
Pavlov’s House
Pavlov’s House, Stalingrad
- days they held out
- 58
- days they held out
In late September Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and a few soldiers took a four-storey building in the centre of Stalingrad. The small garrison, made up of many nationalities, defended it for 58 days. Civilians sheltered in the basement. The house was never given up.
The house stood on 9 January Square, and from its upper floors the defenders could cover the approaches to the Volga. They mined the approaches, dug a trench back to their own lines and kept in touch through the cellar. They were Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Tatars, Jews and people of other nations.
On the headquarters maps it was simply marked “Pavlov's House”. After the war it was one of the first buildings in the city to be rebuilt.
See it on the map