The Bolshevik partisan detachment was created in August 1941, on the eve of the occupation of Gomel by the Nazi invaders. Its participants were 50 volunteers who remained for combat work behind enemy lines. The commander of the detachment was the director of the auto repair plant Ilya Fedoseenko.
One of those who stood at the origins of the detachment was Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Kotchenko.
The Bolshevik fighters carried out sabotage on the railways and the main autohistory, interacted with the Gomel underground.
In general, more than 10 thousand Hitlerites, 15 ammunition and equipment depots, 8 railway bridges were destroyed by partisans and underground fighters, 150 enemy echelons were derailed. Partisans saved more than 5 thousand civilians from being hijacked into German slavery.
A beautiful legend has been preserved about the "Partisan Krinichka" — the spring in which the partisans took the spring water. It was said that everyone who drinks water from this underground spring will live as long as the krinichka will exist.
Guerrilla life and dugouts were recreated at the heroes' parking place. There was a platform for military reconstructions. We have updated the memorial sign in the form of a star and a stele – so that we can bow to the ancestors who defended our freedom.
One of those who stood at the origins of the detachment was Hero of the Soviet Union Fyodor Kotchenko.
The Bolshevik fighters carried out sabotage on the railways and the main autohistory, interacted with the Gomel underground.
In general, more than 10 thousand Hitlerites, 15 ammunition and equipment depots, 8 railway bridges were destroyed by partisans and underground fighters, 150 enemy echelons were derailed. Partisans saved more than 5 thousand civilians from being hijacked into German slavery.
A beautiful legend has been preserved about the "Partisan Krinichka" — the spring in which the partisans took the spring water. It was said that everyone who drinks water from this underground spring will live as long as the krinichka will exist.
Guerrilla life and dugouts were recreated at the heroes' parking place. There was a platform for military reconstructions. We have updated the memorial sign in the form of a star and a stele – so that we can bow to the ancestors who defended our freedom.