Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov (Яков Федотович Павлов in Russian) (October 4, 1917 - ?) was a famous Russian soldier during the Battle of Stalingrad, Hero of the Soviet Union (June 27, 1945). Member of the CPSU since 1944.

Pavlov joined the Red Army in 1938. During the Great Patriotic War, he took part in different battles on the South-West , Stalingrad , 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts. Pavlov was a commander of a machine gun unit, gunlayer and commander of a reconnaissance unit in the rank of Senior Sergeant. During the Battle of Stalingrad, Pavlov's platoon seized a four-storey residential building from the enemy on the night of September 27, 1942 and kept it until the city was freed from the Germans. This house went down in history as the Pavlov's House (Дом Павлова, or Dom Pavlova), which the Germans ferociously attacked on numerous occassions, but could not dislodge its Soviet defenders.

Pavlov was awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, two Orders of the Red Star and medals.