Five exploits of Soviet partisans

The medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" was established in the USSR, February 2, 1943. Over the following years she was awarded 150 thousand characters. In this article describes the five people's volunteer corps, who by example showed how to defend the homeland.





Yefim Ilyich Asipenka

An experienced commander, fought back in the Civil War, a real leader, Yefim Ilyich became the commander of guerrilla group in autumn 1941. Although the squad - it's too loud word with the commander, there were only six. Weapons and ammunition was virtually no winter approached, and infinite groups of the German army is already approaching Moscow.

Recognizing that for the preparation of defense of the capital is necessary as much as possible, the guerrillas decided to blow up the strategically important area of ​​the railway station at Myshbor. Explosives were few detonators were not quite, but Osipenko decided to detonate the bomb with the help of grenades. Silently and invisibly group moved close to the railroad tracks and found the explosives. Send to a friend back and left alone, the commander saw the train coming, he threw a grenade and fell into the snow. But the explosion, why is not there, then Yefim Ilyich himself hit the bomb sixth sign from the train. Sound of explosion derailed and went a long train of food and tanks. Himself guerrillas miraculously survived, however, completely lost his sight and was severely wounded. April 4, 1942 he was the first in the country was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Great Patriotic War" for №000001. Constantine Chekhovich - organizer and performer of one of the largest partisan sabotage the Great Patriotic War.

Future hero was born in 1919 in Odessa, almost immediately after the Industrial Institute was drafted into the Red Army, and in August 1941 he was part of the commando was sent behind enemy lines. When crossing the front line group was ambushed and five people survived only Chekhovich, with much optimism, he was nowhere to take - the Germans, checking the body, convinced that he had a concussion and Konstantin was captured. He managed to escape from him two weeks later, and after another week had already made contact with the guerrillas of the 7th Brigade of Leningrad, where he received his assignment to infiltrate the city of Porkhov the Germans to sabotage the work.

Having a location Nazis Chekhovich was appointed administrator at the local cinema, which he planned to blow up. To business, he hooked Yevgeny Vasilyev - the sister of his wife has been employed as a cleaner in a movie theater. Every day she sneaked through several briquettes into a bucket of dirty water and a cloth. This theater became a mass grave for 760 soldiers and officers of the German - unremarkable "administrator" to set the bomb load-bearing columns and the roof, so that the explosion of the whole structure formed as a house of cards.

Constantine Chekhovich



The oldest winner of the award "Partisan of the Patriotic War" and "Hero of the Soviet Union." Both awards were awarded posthumously, and his feat at the time was 83 years.

Birthplace of the guerrillas in the distant 1858, 3 years before the abolition of serfdom in the Pskov province. Throughout his life he spent apart (on the farm was not), but not alone - from two different wives Matthew Kuzmich had 8 children. He was engaged in hunting and fishing, and knew the area is remarkable.

Those who came to the village the Germans occupied his house, and later it settled the commander of the battalion. In early February 1942 the German commander Kuzmin asked to stay and spend the conductor of the German occupied by the Red Army to the village Pershin, in return he offered an almost unlimited food. Kuzmin agreed. However, having seen on the map route of transportation, advance sent to the destination of his grandson Vasily, to warn the Soviet troops. Himself Matthew Kuzmich long and confusing missed first trimester Germans drove through the forest, and only under the morning brought them, but not to the desired village and to the ambush, which have already occupied the position of the soldiers of the Red Army. The invaders came under machine-gun fire calculations and lost prisoners and killed up to 80 people, but killed the hero and explorer.

Matvey Kuzmin



He was one of many teenagers partisans of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union. Brigadier scout Leningrad partisan brigade, sowing panic and chaos in the German part of the territory of the Novgorod and Pskov regions. Despite her young age - Leonid was born in 1926, at the beginning of the war he was 15 - he was distinguished by a sharp mind and military valor. Just a year and a half of guerrilla activity, he destroyed 78 Germans, two railway and 12 road bridges, 2 warehouses with food and 10 wagons of ammunition. I guarded and escorted convoy of food in besieged Leningrad.

That's what his main feat wrote in a report he Lenya Golikov: "In the evening, August 12, 1942 we 6 people partisans got out on the road Pskov-Luga and lay near the village. Varnitsa. At night, there was no movement. Daylight. On the part of Pskov, August 13 appeared a small passenger car. There was fast, but at the bridge where we were, the car went quiet. Partizan Vasiliev dropped anti-tank grenade, did not hit. The second grenade thrown Petrov Alexander out of the ditch, hit the beam. The machine does not stop immediately, but it took another 20 meters and almost drew level with us (we were a bunch of stone). From the car jumped two officers. I gave all of the machine. Missed. The officer, who was sitting at the wheel, ran through the ditch in the woods. I gave her a few bursts of PCA. I hit the enemy in the neck and back. Peter began to shoot at the second officer, who kept looking back, crying and shoot. Petrov with a rifle killed the officer. Then the two of us ran to the first wounded officer. Tore straps, picked up his briefcase, papers, it turned out to General of Infantry troops of special weapons, that is, the engineering troops, Richard Wirtz, who was returning from a meeting of Konigsberg in your body to Luga. The car was still a heavy suitcase. We barely pulled him into the bushes (150 meters from the highway). While still at the car, we heard in the neighboring village alarm ringing cry. Grabbing the bag, straps and three captured gun, we ran to her .... ".

As it turned out, the teenager took a very important drawings and description of the new model of the German mines, maps of minefields, inspection reports higher command. For this Golikova presented to the "Golden Star" and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

He received the title posthumously. Defense in the country house of the punitive detachment of Germans, the hero was killed along with the partisan headquarters January 24, 1943, before the age of 17 years.

Leonid Golikov



Coming from a poor peasant family, Hero of the Soviet Union, Tikhon Pimenovich in the 26 years he was director of the plant, but the onset of the war did not catch him by surprise. The paper is considered by historians one of the first organizers of the partisan units during World War II. In the summer of 1941, he became one of the leaders and organizers of the fighter detachment, who later became known as the "Red October".

In collaboration with the Red Army guerrillas were killed several dozen bridges and enemy headquarters. Just incomplete 6 months of guerrilla warfare troop Bumazhkova destroyed two hundred cars and motorcycles of the enemy, was blown up or captured up to 20 warehouses with food and fodder, while the number of captive officers and soldiers is estimated at several thousand. Papers died a heroic death at the exit of the environment near the village of Poltava region Orzhica.

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Tikhon Pimenovich papers



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