Kazan Governorate
Pavel Andreyevich Mironov was born on 12 December 1919 in the village of Russkiye Sarsazy in Chistopolsky Uyezd of Kazan Governorate to a family of peasants. He graduated from seven classes and the factory training school in Chistopol. Mironov worked as an assistant mechanic with the Kama River Shipping Company.