4-storeyed residential building located on Lenin Square in Volgograd, in which during the Stalingrad Battle for 58 days a group of Soviet fighters heroically defended. Some historians believe that the defense was led by senior sergeant Ya. F. Pavlov, who took command of the detachment from the wounded at the beginning of the battles of senior lieutenant I. F. Afanasyev [2], hence the name of the house. However, there is another version that Ya. F. Pavlov was the commander of the assault group that seized the building, and the defense was led [3] by Senior Lieutenant I. F. Afanasiev... was built in the mid-1930s by architect Sergey Voloshinov. This house was considered one of the most prestigious in Stalingrad, next to it were located elite residential buildings: Telecommunications House, NKVD House of Workers, Railway House and others
