Biography of Timchuk

The memorial plaque in Minsk Timchuk Ivan Matveevich-commissar of the 1st anti-fascist partisan brigade, secretary of the Logosk underground district committee of the CPSU B. Minsk region, captain. Born on February 1 on February 14 in the village of Grushka, now the Tlumach district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Ukraine, in the family of a peasant. Member of the CPSU B from the year. He graduated from comrade in Kharkov in the year.

He worked as an economist at the Bolshevik state farm of the Minsk Region, then led the St. Belarusian in the Molodechno region of Belarus. In the Red Army in years and from a year. Member of the Civil War. In the year he graduated from the Smolensk Military-Political School. Member of the Great Patriotic War since June. In February - February, the commissar of the partisan detachment "Avenger", operating in the Minsk region, on the basis of which the Partizan Brigade "People's Avengers" was created.

At the same time - the secretary of the Logosk Underground Party District Committee. Since September-Commissioner, in May-July-the commander of the 1st anti-fascist partisan brigade of the Minsk region. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 1, for the exemplary implementation of government in the struggle against the Nazi invaders in the enemy rear and heroism shown at the same time and for special merits in the development of the partisan movement in Belarusian, Captain Timchuk Ivan Matveevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Medal.

Star ". He lived in Minsk. He died on October 17. He was buried in the Eastern Moscow cemetery in Minsk. In the village of Grushka, which spread out in the foothills of the Carpathians on the right bank of the Dniester, in the landlord estate of Tudorivka, in the year in the family of the driver of the distillery Matvey Timchuk, the first -born was born. They called him Ivan. After that, 7 more brothers and sisters were born.

Father earned only 3 pounds of bread and 5 rubles in copper per month. Therefore, when Ivan Timchuk hit 13 years, he went to the landowner's estate with a laborer. In the year, Ivan left his native village and went to the Melitopol region, launched the kulaks. In the summer of the year, he already commanded the intelligence department. He was wounded more than once and was treated in hospitals.

Ivan Timchuk graduated from the sappers, and then the Smolensk Military-Political School, thought to connect life with the army. But in the year he had to demobilize in connection with the disease. In the year he graduated in Kharkov Komsomol. He worked as an economist at the Bolshevik state farm of the Minsk district. After the liberation of Western Belarusian, Timchuk led a star -hub in the Molodechno region.

It was a large enterprise in which silver-black foxes were bred. It gave clean profit a year about 2 million. Timchuk managed to poke to the weeds on the horse, where the Krai border outpost was located for up to a year, so that together with the border guards to repulse the enemy. But on July 4, all party and Soviet workers were summoned to Slopenichi, where underground groups left behind the front line began to be created.

It was already attended by 11 people. By the fall of the year, several partisan groups were already operating in the area, combining more fighters. Personality, will and activity was shown by Ivan Timchuk. He boldly went from the village to the village, from one group to another in touch with the underground, combining their actions. He lived under a strange surname.

Soon a connection with the Minsk Communists was established. In November, at the apartment of Vladimir Omelyanyuk, a meeting of the heads of underground groups of the Minsk region took place. It was decided to unite small groups into one partisan detachment under the command of Major V. Voronyansky - Uncle Vasya. The leadership of the party organization and underground groups of the Logosk district were laid on I.

In March, there were already more fighters in the Voronyansky detachment. In a short time, the partisans were eliminated by police sections in the village of Beloluchye, in the villages of Koren, Sloboda, Yanushkovichi, in the village of Kraisk. At the end of March, the group, under the leadership of Timchuk near the Knyaginin station, developed the railway path and moved towards the rails.

The first fascist echelon flew downhill! After that, the Timchuk group in the village of Khotenchitsy attacked the Hitler procurement corps base. The partisans brought about the pounds of meat, ham and sausages, 3 bags of white flour, drove several dozen heads of cattle and brought the prisoner of Lieutenant. In the spring of the year, the invaders took up partisans and underground, sending various provocateurs.

The failures began in the Minsk underground. The commissar of Uncle Vasya, A. Ivan Timchuk, who was in Minsk, died in Minsk became the commissar of the detachment. The Nazis surrounded the Rudnyansky forest. But at the suggestion of Timchuk, without accepting the battle, a detachment on a spilled river of 12 km almost to the waist in cold water left the forest.

The Nazis attacked empty dugouts ... At the beginning of May, in the village of Zarechye, Uncle Vasya’s detachment met with a special group of Colonel Gradov S. Vaupshasov, who had a walkie -talkie. Voronyansky and Timchuk contacted the "large land." So at the headquarters of the partisan movement of Belarus, a new combat unit appeared on the account - the partisan detachment "Avenger".

The partisan war was activated.The ambushes were arranged, cars on the roads exploded, enemy trains flew downhill. Timchuk often met with the heads of underground organizations in the villages of the district, accepted and sent to Minsk liaison, saboteurs, scouts, went to negotiations with persons who served in fascist institutions, and selected political workers in detachments.

The first forest printing house began to operate in the detachment. It printed reports of the Swinformburo and leaflets, which spread in Minsk and among the population of villages and villages. Various issues of the development of the partisan movement were discussed. The delegates of the conference, commanders and commissars of partisan detachments and groups had to enter the battle with the enemy.

The Timchuk group occupied the left flank of the ambush. The group of Andrei Volynza is the right. Both of them were beaten from Maxims. From all sides, a hail of bullets fell on the SS men. The punitive battalion was destroyed in 45 minutes. After this battle, the partisans had to change the location. The Avenger detachment went back to the Rudnyansky forest.

By August, enemy garrisons were no longer in the villages. The partisans drove them to the district centers. In one of the reports of the Belarusian headquarters of the partisan movement there are lines: “... a group of detachments, where the commissar comrade. Timchuk, launched under the slope of 21 echelon and enemy’s manpower and technology, exploded 27 bridges on the highways and highways ...

17 German officers, near German soldiers were exterminated ... ”At the beginning of the year, Timchuk was dismissed the Avenger detachment commissar, as too much time was required to organize underground party work. Controlled underground groups from many villages and villages of several areas came to him. There was a radio communications with a large land, Minsk, Molodechno, Vilnius.

The printing house worked uninterruptedly. In August, the leadership of the detachment was called to Moscow. Partisan brigades formed everywhere, a "rail war" began. But Timchuk could not fly due to an old injury. The plane with V. Voronyansky and other partisan leaders was shot down by fascist fighters, they all died. But the 1st anti-fascist partisan brigade was formed by its commissar Ivan Timchuk.

In the battles and ambushes, the partisans of the brigades destroyed many fascist soldiers and officers, disabled at least 25 kilometers of the railway, blew up 8 enemy echelons, more than 20 armored cars, about a hundred vehicles. In May, Timchuk became the commander of the 1st anti-fascist partisan brigade. A lot of blood spoiled a lot of blood to the fascists, especially on the eve of the liberation of the Soviet troops of Belarus.

In early July, the partisans of the Timchuk brigades, together with the fighters of the regular army, liberated the district center of the Minsk Region village Logoisk. After the liberation from the invaders of Belarus, Ivan Matveevich Timchuk took up peaceful labor. Since he had an economic education, and he was known in the republic, he became the deputy chairman of the State Planning Commission of Belarus.

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