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Tombstone 2 Korzh Vasily Zakharovich-commander of the Pinsk partisan former, member of the Pinsk underground regional committee of the Communist Party of the Bolsheviks of Belarus, Major General. Born 1 on January 13 of the year in the village of Khorostov now the Soligorsky district of the Minsk region of Belarus. From the family of a peasant. He graduated from a rural school.

In the years he fought in the partisan detachment of K. Orlovsky, operating in Western Belarus. In the year he crossed the border to Soviet Belarus. Since the year, he was chairman of collective farms in the Slutsk and Starobelsky districts of the Minsk District. Member of the CPSU B from the year. In the year he graduated from special courses of the NKVD, was responsible for preparing for the partisan war in the Slutsk district under the operational cover of the instructor of the Slutsk department of Osawayakhim.

Korzh as an adviser participated in the national revolutionary war of the Spanish people, was the commander of the international partisan detachment. After returning to the USSR, in the fall of the year he was undergoing unreasonable arrest on charges of espionage and preparation of terrorist activities, spent about a month and a half in prison. In the same year he was released, but on the advice of his comrades left Belarus.

In the years, he worked as the director of the grain exposure in the Krasnodar Territory, then the Lange state farm in the Dobrushsky district of the Gomel region of the Belarusian SSR. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he formed and headed a fighter battalion, which grew into one of the first partisan detachments in Belarus. The detachment included 60 people. The detachment was divided into 3 rifle compartments of 20 fighters in each.

Armed with rifles, they received 90 rounds and one grenade to them. To protect the city from the north side on the Pinsk -Logishin road, they put a group of partisans. For the ambush of the partisan detachment commanded by Korzh, 2 German tanks ran in. It was the intelligence of the Wehrmacht infantry division. The partisans opened fire and knocked out one tank. As a result of this operation, they managed to capture 2 Nazis.

This was the first partisan battle of the First partisan detachment in the history of the Great Patriotic War! Korzh quickly “unfolded” the fire power of his detachment, and dozens of fascist cavalrymen killed on the battlefield. The front was removed east, and the partisans were added to the partisans every day. They arranged ambushes on the roads and destroyed enemy vehicles with infantry, equipment, ammunition, food, intercepted motorcyclists.

On the explosives used personally, the first armored train was undermined by the first mine used to wandering stumps before the war for wandering stumps. The combat account of the detachment grew. But there was no connection with the large land. Then Korzh sent a man for the front line. The connected was the famous Belarusian underground Vera Khorozhaya.

And she managed to get to Moscow. In winter - a year managed to establish a connection with the Minsk underground regional party committee, which deployed its headquarters in the Lyuban district. They jointly organized a sled raid in the Minsk and Polesie regions - one of the very first partisan raids in the Great Patriotic War. During the raid, the detachment was replenished thoroughly.

The partisan war flared up. By November, 7 detachments impressive in force merged together and formed a partisan compound. Korzh took command of him. In addition, 11 underground district district committees, Pinsky by the city committee, and about 40 primary organizations began to operate in the region. It was possible to “turn over” to his side even a whole Cossack regiment formed by the Nazis from prisoners of war!

By winter - the year the combination of Korzh restored the Soviet power in a large part of the Luninets, Zhitkovichi, Starobinsky, Ivanovo, Drogichinsky, Leninsky, Telekhan, Gantsevichsky districts. The connection with the large land has been improved. At the partisan airfield, planes sat down, ammunition, medicines, and radio were brought. The partisans reliably controlled the huge section of the Brest -Gomel railway, the Baranovichi - the Luninsky distillation, and the enemy trains went downhill along the solid partisan schedule.

The Dnieper-Bug Canal was almost completely paralyzed. In February, the Hitler command attempted to end the partisans of Korzh. Regular parts with artillery, aviation, tanks occurred. The partisan zone turned into a continuous battlefield. Korzh himself led the column to a breakthrough. He personally led shock detachments to break through the ring, then the defense of the neck of the breakthrough, while the convoys with civilians, wounded and property overcame the gap, and, finally, by the reargard group covering the persecution.

And so that the Nazis did not think that they won, Korzh attacked a large garrison in the village of Holy Will. The Nazis, by the summer of the year, threw part of the part against the connection of the cake. And each time the partisans broke the rings of the environment. Finally, they finally escaped from the boiler to the area of ​​Lake Vygonovsky. All summer and autumn of the year rattled in Belarus the “rail war”, proclaimed by the central headquarters of the partisan movement.

The connection of the cake made a noticeable contribution to this grandiose “event”.In the year, somewhat brilliant in the plan and operations of operations overturned all the calculations of the Nazis to the systematic, thought out of their parts to the west. The partisans paralyzed the railway arteries in only on July 20, 21 and 22, the demolitions blew up 5 thousand rails!

Hundreds of Aryan warriors surrendered to the partisans of Korzh. And a few days later, the war left the Pinsk Territory ... By July, the Pinsk partisan unit under the command of Korzh in battles defeated 60 German garrisons, launched the enemy trains, exploded 62 railway bridges, destroyed 86 tanks and armored vehicles, 29 guns, and disabled communication lines.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 15, for exemplary fulfillment of government tasks in the fight against the Nazi invaders in the rear of the enemy and the courage and heroism shown at the same time and for special merits in the development of the partisan movement in Belarus, Korzhu Vasily Zakharovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal.

Star ". In the year he graduated from the Higher Military Academy of K. since the year Major General V. Korzh-in stock. The reason for dismissal from the army was the biased attitude towards him from the former chief of the Central Headquarters of the Partisan movement of the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus P. Ponomarenko, based on accusations of the first from a number of NKVD workers in Anarchism.

In years, he worked as deputy minister of forestry of the Belarusian SSR. In the years, he was the chairman of the Partizansky Territory collective farm of the Soligorsky district of the Minsk region. In the last years of his life, he lived in the city of Minsk. He died on May 5 of the year.

He was buried in the Eastern Moscow cemetery in Minsk. Major General was awarded 2 Orders of Lenin, 2 orders of the Red Banner, orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Red Star, medals. The monument to the hero is erected in the village of Khorostov, a bust in the village of Betov, Pinsky district of the Brest region, memorial boards - in the cities of Minsk and Soligorsk.

The collective farm "Partisan Krai", streets in the cities of Minsk, Pinsk, Soligorsk, as well as a school in the city of Pinsk are named after him.