The first Soviet policemen died in a battle with criminals.
Egor Petrovich Shbirkov was born in 1873 in Roza, near Moscow. Semyon Matbeych Pekalov - in 1890 in Siberia. Both were from poor peasant families, fought in the First World War and at the same time joined the Moscow police. We only managed to serve there for six months.
In April 1918, Yegor and Semyon were on duty near the Bolshoi Ostinsky Bridge. In the evening, a dozen and a half men approached them and introduced themselves as Cheka employees (one of them presented a mandate). They asked for help in the search and arrest of counter-revolutionaries hidden in the house on Kosmodamyanskaya Embankment.
Shabirkov and Paklov went with unknown people to the specified address. The gatekeeper, seeing the policemen (probably, that's what they needed for), calmly opened the gate and let everyone into the yard. Then Egor and Semyon, who remained in the street, heard a noise and calls for help from the upper floor. In a quick comparison of all the facts, they realized that they were dealing with false security officers who enter apartments and rob residents.
Despite the numerical superiority of the gang, the police entered an unequal battle. In the shootout several robbers were killed, but Shabirkov was killed on the spot and Paklov was mortally wounded.
Both heroes were buried with honors in the Kremlin wall.
Based on the criminals' handwriting, the employees of the new criminal investigation department realized that they were dealing with Koshelkov's gang, which in the future would become famous for the "exploitation" of a company car from V.I. Lenin Eventually, in July 1919, the leader of a gang of robbers is shot dead by security officers.
Igor Shbirkov and Semyon Paklov are not forgotten. Their busts are installed in the Central Museum of the Ministry of the Interior. A commemorative plaque was installed on the building of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Zamoshbortsky district in Moscow. And the best employees of the department are awarded an honorary flag named after these heroes.
We are from the Soviet Union, we are in Max.