Zaslonov Biography

Bust in Minsk Zaslonov Konstantin Sergeyevich partisan pseudonym "Uncle Kostya" - one of the outstanding active participants and leaders of the partisan movement in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War; The commander of the partisan detachment and the brigade, commander of all the partisan forces of the Orsha zone. Born on December 25, January 7, in the city of Ostashkov, now the Tver region in the family of a worker.

In the year he graduated from the Great Luxe railway proftekhol. From the year he worked in the Vitebsk steam locomotive depot: a locksmith, an assistant driver, a driver, a steamer master. From the year - assistant to the head of the locomotive depot at the Novosibirsk -Glavny station. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, at the approach of the Nazi troops to Orsha K.

Zaslonov, he was evacuated to Moscow and worked in the Ilyich depot, but at the personal request he was sent with a group of railway workers to the rear of the enemy. The front line at the head of the detachment of 40 people crossed on October 1. Legalized in the city of Orsha, in November, Zaslonov joined the Orsha depot by the head of the Russian steam brigades and created an underground group that launched active sabotage activities.

For 3 months, underground, using “coal” mines, that is, mines disguised as coal, produced near the circles of trains, blew up 93 steam locomotives, disabled hundreds of wagons and tanks. This significantly inhibited the operational transportation of the enemy.

Due to the threat of arrest in the early March of the year, in the summer and autumn of the year, this brigade conducted active partisan actions, carrying out raids in the area of ​​the cities of Vitebsk, Orsha, Smolensk, where important communications of the German-fascist Army Group Center were destroyed, destroyed a large number of enemy soldiers and technology. Member of the CPSU B from the year.

In October, K. Partisan commander fell the death of the brave in battle with punishers on November 14 in the area of ​​the village of Kupa Orsha district of the Vitebsk region of the Belarusian SSR. He was buried in Orsha at the railway station. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 7, for the exemplary implementation of the command missions of the command on the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Zaslonov Konstantin Sergeyevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

The two orders of Lenin were awarded 5. The monument to the hero was erected in Orsha and Ostashkov, busts in the capital of Belarus of the hero city of Minsk and in front of the main building of the locomotive depot in Orsha. The name of K. is the image of the hero in the feature film “Konstantin Zaslonov” and the play of the same name by A. The name of the hero was knocked out on the monument to the dead workers and employees of the Orsha steamed depot.