Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Unit:

86th Separate Guards Tank Battalion, 55th Army, Leningrad Front

Awarded on:

January 2nd, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Mladshiy leytenant

Unit:

86th Separate Guards Tank Battalion, 55th Army, Leningrad Front

Awarded on:

February 6th, 1942

Junior Lieutenant Yakovlev distinguished himself in the battle of the village of Krasny Bor on 23 December 1941. His platoon repelled enemy counterattacks and destroyed three anti-tank guns, four machine guns, two bunkers, three mortars, up to 200 enemy soldiers and held the line.

No. 631

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Mladshiy leytenant

Unit:

86th Separate Guards Tank Battalion, 55th Army, Leningrad Front

Awarded on:

February 6th, 1942

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Mladshiy leytenant

Unit:

86th Separate Guards Tank Battalion, 55th Army, Leningrad Front

Awarded on:

August 8th, 1943

After receiving the highest award to the Motherland (on 6 February 1942), Junior Lieutenant Yakovlev continued to fight bravely against the enemy. He was seriously injured In the battle of August 25, 1942, south of the town of Tosno, Leningrad region. He returned to the front after recovery. He was wounded five times and received two concussions in just two years of participation in the fighting. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942.

Since March 1942, he commander a platoon of KV-2 heavy tanks of the 31st Seperate Guards Tank Regiment in the breakthrough on the Leningrad Front. He bravely fell in battle near the village of Arbuzovo on trhe Nevsky Bridgehead on 22 July 1943. In his last battle, trying to break through the enemy's defense, he destroyed a machine-gun point and 5 bunkers at the head of his tank crew, and his platoon: 1 tank, 1 gun, 2 more machine-gun points and a lot of enemy manpower. Killed by repelling a counterattack, from direct hit of a projectile into his tank.

Posthumously awarded

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Mladshiy leytenant

Awarded on:

1943

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)