Sergey Sikorsky biography

The hero of the publication is one of those who climbed the upper steps of the service staircase, as they say, from the bottom. He was born in a worker’s family, in childhood passing cattle. After graduating from a parish school, he worked as a loader at the Berezin station - this is how his biography began. A native of Bobruisk, Sergey Ivanovich was tightly connected with Brestchina at different stages of her history and his own life: before the start of World War II, he worked as secretary of the Brest regional committee of the Communist Party B B, and in the post -war period continued to build a secretary of the Baranavichy regional committee of the party.

And during the period of the German-fascist occupation in the rear of the enemy, he immediately combined three leadership positions: the authorized Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Brest region, the secretary of the Brest underground regional party committee and the commander of the Brest partisan unit. The general leadership of the organizational party group led by Sikorsky arrived in April of the year in the Divinsky district now as part of the Kobrinsky district.

This is how Sergey Ivanovich himself described his appearance in the deep rear of the enemy: “The underground regional committee arrived on airplanes from Moscow to the landing site of the Minsk partisan connection. Here he was allocated a detachment of 50 people, with whom, through Polesskaya and Baranavichy regions, he made a transition to the Brest region. By the end of April, the path was difficult and dangerous.

Repeatedly stumbled upon ambushes, fought with the Nazis. The entire area was covered by enemy garrisons. Particularly enhanced garrisons were located in railway and highways, of which larger ones were in Ivatsevichi, Berez, Kobrin, Brest, Bronnaya Gora, Dams, Zhabinka, Antopol. There, bunkers, dugouts, trenches were built there, wire fences were installed.

In some places, approaches to garrisons and railways were mined. Among other areas of the region, Belovezhskaya Pushcha was in a special position. The situation in the region at the time of the arrival of the Brest underground regional committee demanded a mandatory general leadership of the partisan movement. With the underground regional committee of KP B, we created the headquarters for the leadership of the partisan detachments of the region.

” During April-June, the regional committee and the headquarters established contact with the individual partisan detachments named after Dimitrov, “Soviet Belarus”, named after Kirov, named after Chernak, named after Chkalov, Makarievich, named after Molotov, named after Chapaev, named after Voroshilov and M, strengthened the weak combat units, determined the organizational and staff structure of detachments, their tasks and areas actions.

The headquarters of the units deployed large partisan detachments into independent detachments named after Budyonny, named after Kotovsky, named after Suvorov, named after Dmitry Pozharsky later named after Kolupaev, and also transformed individual groups of P. Kovalsky and F. Poplavsky, respectively, into the Kilin and Kirov detachments. Later, new detachments were created in the connection, including individual “Chekist”, the name of Kotovsky second composition, “Banner”, “For the Homeland” and Y.

From June to April, the Ponomarenko brigades, “Soviet Belarus”, the name of Stalin, Name of Dzerzhinsky, the Name of Sverdlov, the Name of Chapaev, and the Name of Lenin were created in the region. It would be wrong to say that before the implementation of the Sikorsky mission assigned to Sergey, the partisans had not yet represented a powerful and formidable power to unite and strengthen the folk resistance to the enemy in the rear.

At the same time, the partisans now sent from one center have become even more systematic, organized and threatened the rear of the Nazi army. The partisans already had forest bases, a firmly established connection with the centers of the country, regularly supplied weapons and ammunition, received food from the population uninterruptedly, had their own warehouses and workshops, produced hundreds of leaflets, had their partisan stamp in addition to the Brest Regional newspaper Zarya, which resumed their exit under the underground.

In addition, they arranged sabotage in cities, disorganized railway communication and communications, filled up forest roads, tore off the events of the invaders in the villages, made fear of local police, interfered with youth to work in Germany, organized prisoners of war shoots from the camps ... but it was at the Sikorsky partisan unit of the Brest region for the entire period of the whole period of the entire period years to July, united almost 11 brigades and 13 separate, detachments with a total number of more than 13 thousand partisans.

With the corresponding spectacular combat results, which brought the great victory in the same way as the army successes on the fronts and fields of the battles. A noticeable trace in the year the headquarters of the Western Front set up the task of the units of the people's avengers - to disrupt enemy transportation on railways. Behind the detachments, specific sections of activation of actions and places of dislocation were assigned.

I acquired a special scope of the implementation of this instruction from the moment of the declaration of the “rail war”. It is noteworthy that the head of the Brest partisan former took a direct part in it: in the book of O.Zubar “Comrade Sergei” mentioned an episode when Sikorsky with a small group of partisans went to the village of Grushevo to complete the task.

On the night of August 8 to 9, the fighters headed by Sergei Ivanovich conducted a mass diversion on the Brest -Baranovichi railway lines, Brest - Pinsk, Brest - Malorita. That night they disabled more than two thousand rails, for a long time paralyzing the movement of trains through the city above the bug. Next year, the Brest connection on the night of June 19 to 20, a few days before the start of the offensive operation, Bagration, disabled almost four thousand rails.

This time, the Nazis could not restore traffic in the Brest area until the moment when Soviet troops came here. Many echelons with cargo remained standing at the stations, replenishing the trophies of the advancing Red Army. The partisans, interacting with its units, smashed the exiting columns of the enemy, mined roads to the rear of the Nazis, made impudent attacks on the enemy’s garrisons, making disorganization into his defense.

The last weeks preceding the complete and final liberation of the border from the Nazi occupiers were especially difficult and intense. On July 8, Sikorsky reported: “In connection with the onset of the Red Army in all areas of the region, especially in the Kossovsky, Berezovsky, Antopolsky, Kobrinsky, the enemy activated terror, mass evacuation of the population to Germany.

It destroys crops, evacuated by Ivatsevichi sawmills, birch, Bronnaya mountain. He hills horses, livestock, mines railway structures, approaches to them and roads. A panic is growing among German employees, and their families began to be evacuated. Partisan detachments are fighting for communications and in a number of places - to save the population. ” A little earlier, on June 20, partisans under the command of Sergei Sikorsky in one night on the Kobrin -Luninsky section undermined the rails, destroyed several bridges, and disabled the communication line.

In the fight against Nazism, this analyst, strategist, commander and warrior left behind a noticeable mark in one person. This fact is confirmed by the information certificate posted on the website of the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War: “Thanks to the work of Sergei Ivanovich, by August, he personally worked out operational and tactical tasks for partisan detachments and led their implementation.

He carried out a large political and mass work among partisans and the local population. Under his leadership, only from January 1 to November 1, the funds of the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War stored photographs, documents and letters of S., and the statement of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated January 1, dated to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union Sergei Sikorsky “for the exemplary fulfillment of government tasks in the struggle against the German-fascist invaders in the enemy’s rear and shown at the same time Courage and heroism and for special merits in the development of the partisan movement in Belarus.

” It is impossible not to add that the merits of Sergei Ivanovich were noted not only by the highest state awards. The streets in Bobruisk and Brest are named after Sikorsky.