Pyotr Gavrilov

Pyotr Mikhaylovich Gavrilov (1900-1979) - was an ethnic Keräşen TatarHeroes of Soviet Union, [http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=484 Гаврилов Пётр Михайлович] ru icon] Soviet officer known as the hero of the Defense of Brest Fortress (1941). Taken captive by the Germans in the afterward of the battle, he was released after the end of the war; chief of camp for the Japanese prisoners of war in Siberia in 1946-1947. Afterwards according to to official Soviet data he moved to Krasnodar, according to independent reports - he was arrested and condemned for "being taken captive" (see Order No. 270) and spent ten years in Gulag. [Novaya Gazeta, [http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/70/20.html Советско-фашистская дружба] , 21.09.2008 ru icon] Michael Parrish, "The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953", Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 0275951138 [http://books.google.com/books?id=NDgv5ognePgC&pg=PA134&dq=Brest+Soviet+prisoners+of+war+German+Gulag&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=c0HhaBMuPM6nbH2egoV3RdxVlYs Google Print, p.134] ] Rehabilitated after Stalin's death; received the Order of Lenin and the prestigious title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1957.

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