Dmitry Nikolaevich Medvedev Biography

The fate of veterans: Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev Dmitry Nikolaevich - commander of the partisan intelligence and sabotage detachment "Winners", operating in the territory of the Rivne and Lviv regions of the occupied Ukrainian SSR, Colonel. Born on August 22 in the city of Bezhitsa now the district of the city of Bryansk in the family of a worker worker. From an early age, he worked at the factory, the young man joined the Red Guard, took part in the Civil War of the years.

In the year, after the end of the highest commanding courses, he was sent to work in foreign intelligence. For two years he was on reconnaissance work abroad. But six months later, according to the anonymous statement, D. Medvedev "for the unreasonable termination of criminal cases" was dismissed. However, the colleagues who knew his colleagues won him well, and Medvedev continued his work.

The intense work, which constantly required the mobilization of all physical and spiritual forces, shaken his health. The once obtained bruise of the back, which moved into a severe disease of the spine, began to affect. At the end of the year, D. Medvedev, at the age of 41, retired for health reasons and settled in the suburbs. In June, L. Beria, who at one time dismissed Medvedev, will issue an order to restore it in the state security authorities and send the 4th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR to the famous "Sudoplatov" special group.

During the Great Patriotic War, Dmitry Nikolayevich Medvedev was sent to the rear of the enemy to participate in the partisan movement. In August, having moved the front line with a group of volunteers, D. Medvedev organizes in his native places - in the Bryansk forests - the partisan detachment of Mitya, operating in the territory of the Smolensk, Oryol, Mogilev regions.

During his stay in the enemy’s rear, from September to January, the group of D. Medvedev managed to organize, strengthen and intensify the work of armed groups in a number of regions of the Oryol and Bryansk regions and the Mogilev region of Belarus, and create partisan detachments here. In the Bryansk forests, the basis was laid for the deployment of the so -called partisan region with centers in the cities of Zhizdra and Dyatkovo.

Of the 27 partisan detachments operating in this region, 7 were created with the active assistance of the Medvedevites. In the battles, Dmitry Nikolaevich was twice wounded and shell -shocked. Soon he receives a new responsible task: being recalled to Moscow, Captain Medvedev forms a group of volunteers to work in the deep rear of the enemy. Thus, a group of partisans, headed by Medvedev D., under the leadership of Medvedev, was created in June, a special group of scouts, which included Alexander Lukin and Vladimir Frolov, was created.

While in the Sarnensky forests, the Winners detachment, on the initiative of his commander, created a family camp in which Jewish women, children and old people were saved from the ghetto. The Hitler command tried to block Medvedev’s detachment. The punitive operation was led by SS Pyper Standartenfuhrer.

The battle lasted more than seven hours. On the enemy side there was a four-fold superiority: more than 2 and a half thousand soldiers and officers. But by the skillful leadership, D. Medvedev achieved victory. The SS Kiper was killed, the punishers were defeated, the detachment captured rich trophies - wagons with weapons, a lot of machine guns. Acting from June to March in the territory of the Rivne and Lviv regions of Ukraine, a detachment of D.

Medvedev held major battles, in which up to 2 thousand German soldiers and officers were liquidated, including 11 generals and senior state officials of Nazi Germany. 81 echelon with manpower and technology was blown up. During the period of its activity, the Winners detachment created 10 new partisan detachments. When the Soviet Army began the liberation of Ukraine, D.

Medvedev decided to go in the direction of Lviv and provide assistance to the advancing troops. And in early February, he received an order to display the detachment to the rear of the Red Army and on the 5th crossed the front line. Thus ended the path of the reconnaissance-sabotage detachment "Winners". The old injury made itself felt, and Medvedev made the path to his own lying in a wagon.

Upon his return, he reported: "The Operational Group" Winners "carried out a huge intelligence work every day, all the data on the radio received by her were reported to the command. By May, since October. After the war, having retired, the legendary partisan commander gained fame as a writer and narrator, whose radio broadcasts were looking forward to the whole country.

Books of the Hero of the Soviet Union Dmitry Nikolayevich Medvedev "It was exactly" a year; A processed and supplemented publication called "Strong Spirit", a year; The play of the same name, together with A. Grebnev, the year and the “detachment goes to the West” for the year entered the Golden Fund of Literature on the Great Patriotic War. In the center of these works is the image of a really existing man - Hero of the Soviet Union N.The story "On the shores of the South Bug", which went out of the press in the year- about the heroic affairs of the Vinnitsa underground during the war- prevented the death of the writer-patriot ...

Dmitry Nikolayevich Medvedev died on December 14 in Moscow, where he was buried. He was awarded the three orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner and many medals. D. Medvedev’s excitingly written books are widely popular both in our country and abroad; They are translated into many foreign languages.