Biography Chekalina Alexander Pavlovich
Chekalin Aleksandr Pavlovich (03/25/1925 – 11/06/1941), born with. Peskovatskoe now Suvorov district of the Tula region., Died in Lihvin now Chekalin, party of the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War 1941 – 1945, Hero of the Soviet (4. 2. 1942, posthumously).
Member of the Komsomol in 1939. In 1938 he studied at a secondary school in Lihvina.
In July 1941 came as a volunteer in a fighter unit, then in a partisan detachment "Forward", was a scout.
Denounced by a traitor seized by the Nazi and after severe torture hanged.
At the grave Chekalina in 1958 monument.
Lit.: Ivanovo EM, Sokolov, VA, son of the motherland. Story, 2 ed., Tula, 1968; VI Smirnov, Alexander Chekalin. Story, M., 1972.