Evgeny Bereznyak Biography

Evgeny Bereznyak: "Major Vikhr", who saved from the destruction of Krakow Bereznyak Yevgeny Stepanovich, was born on February 25 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, died on November 23 in Kyiv at the age of 99. The legendary underground, one of the Savior Krakow, instead of a reward, received a “camp period” in the USSR for staying in the dungeons of the Gestapo, fully rehabilitated in the city of Ukraine, the feat of Yevgeny Bereznyak.

Further, evacuation in his native Dnepropetrovsk and work in the underground from the GG. At the end of G. Evgeny Bereznyak, they transferred to the special school of the GRU of the GRU of the GRU of the GRU of the GRU Red Army, after which on August 19, they are landed at the head of the Voice scouts on the territory of Poland near Krakova, where she carried out the combat missions of the Center for long days that went down in the history of the Second World War.

For 5 months of staying in the enemy’s rear, a group of Bereznyak - it has been transmitted from above the radioograms almost daily!

The birch group not only received this important information, but got a plan for mining the city and in order to get the mining schemes Krakow, the scouts had to capture their engineer-major in front of white day in front of the Germans, who was related to mining. For two weeks, he lived in a partisan dugout and painted schemes for his abductors. As it turned out, the Nazis were going to let the Soviet troops pass into Krakow, after which they would blow him up with them.

Therefore, the Voice group saved not only Krakow from unthinkable destruction, but also the lives of several tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers of the USSR, which, using the information received from the reconnaissance group, on January 19, from January to November, Evgeny Bereznyak was finally rehabilitated after 20 years, a year. Evgeny Bereznyak returned to work in Lviv Rono, then he was transferred to the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, where he became a member of the collegium of the ministry, a candidate of pedagogical sciences, an author of 6 monographs, more than scientific publications, a cavalier of 3 orders for "peaceful labor" - the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labor and the Honor.

This information was denied by his son, saying the following: “In recent years, his father lost his vision, nevertheless, he tried to do everything as much as possible without outside help: to dress, shave, call on the phone. He felt healthy, full of energy, met with veterans, students, journalists ... Moreover, it was almost impossible to dissuade him from these meetings. And "burned" very quickly.

In early November, he suddenly felt badly, the ambulance took him to the hospital, where he died three weeks later "; - the expression of the Old Roman poet Ovid Dum Spiro Speero" I hope - I hope this expression on the wall of the Krakow prison "Montelipis", where he got to the Polish territory in the Polish territory, became the password of the Voice. In the year, Julian Semenov, a famous writer, wrote a book called "Major WHOLOW", thanks to which the Semenov intelligence group was widely known with the Semenov intelligence group and had access to secret archives that he managed to get access to them.

The nickname "Major Vikhr" was firmly fixed after Evgeny Bereznyak; nevertheless, the author of the immortal novel about the Stirlitz in his book about Major Worthy described the actions and main qualities of the protagonist, using the facts of the biography of not only Evgeny Bereznyak, but also another, no less well -known scout Alexei Botyan. However, this became known much later than the book was published, because after the end of the war the boots continued his work in intelligence.