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Volgograd with inscription: "Eternal glory to the Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Private Kaplunov Ilya Makarovich" At the beginning of 1943, the Komsomol members of the Arkadak region raised money for the construction of the tank named «Ilya Kaplunov». The tank was handed over to Major V. M. Muravlev, a tanker from Saratov, who led him from the banks of the
Volga to
Berlin. Streets in
Vladivostok, the Romanovka-2 garrison (Primorsky Territory), Volgograd, Arkadak and in the village of Oktyabrsky are named after Ilya Kaplunov. His name is carved on the monument to the heroes of the
Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd. By order of the troops of the Southern Front dated May 13, 1943, Ilya Kaplunov was forever enrolled in the lists of the 260th Guards Rifle Regiment of the
86th Guards Rifle Division. Until the end of the 1980s, the regiment was stationed in the city of
Florești and was part of the 86th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the
14th Guards Army of the
Odessa Military District. The bust was installed on the alley of Heroes in front of the headquarters of the 7060th air base of the naval aviation of the Pacific Fleet (military unit 69262) in the
Yelizovo garrison of the
Kamchatka Krai. The bust was installed in the garrison Romanovka-2 (Pristan) Primorsky Krai In 1961, a sculpture of Kaplunov with an anti-tank rifle in his hands was installed over the mass grave where Kaplunov was buried. == Awards ==