About fighting activity of group of Shchors

From the diary which is separately existing guerrilla group of N. A. Shchors The Brest Region about fighting activity of group from July 13 till December 3, 1943.

… July 28, 1943. The petrolwarehouse in mountains is blown up. To Kobrina in 7 hours of morning. Result: 42 t of gasoline, 53 t of kerosene, 15 t of an avtol, 7 t of solid oil, 1 car, 2 tractors, 5 harvesters, 3 combines, 20 various selskokh [ozyaystvenny] cars burned down. The fire lasted for the whole days …

Made explosion Vasilenko Pyotr Vladimirovich (the hospital attendant of hospital in mountains. Kobrin), Ismailov Ismail Mamedovich (stove-setter of mountains. Kobrina).

… August 5, 1943. On a highway Brest - Moscow, in the area between [village] of the Dam - Onions, is destroyed cable phone line [communications] throughout 1500 m (30 columns are cut off).

Avetisyan, Malakh, Romanyuk, Gordey, Nabalayev, Redkin Ivan directed.

… August 28, 1943. The military echelon of the opponent on the railroad near the station Gorodets is lowered under a slope. It is destroyed: the engine, 4 platforms with tanks, 2 cars with manpower, 1 car with coal, 2 cars with motors, 2 cars with rails. The same group killed 2 fascists from. - of protection.

[Executed] Sextons, Mikheyev, Sosnovtsev, Ravens, Ponomarev, Rezunov, Sergeyev, Balangding.

… September 26, 1943. On. Brest - Pinsk, in the area Zuev [stn.] Gorodets, 21 rails are blown up.

… Zuev [executed].

… With 22 for October 23, [1943]. On. Brest – Pinsk, around Gorodets – Vulka, blew up 225 rails.

Guzhevsky [executed].

… October 28, 1943. The water tower with a machine gun on stn is fired. Gorodets. Result: in a water tower of 3 direct hits. the 1st shell punched wooden and stone walls, broke off iron fastenings of walls, punched a water-pressure tank in which became torn. the 2nd shell brought down the platform on which the easel machine gun was established. The machine gun departed down a ladder. The shell punched the top water tank, passed through all 4 walls and took off without having become torn. the 3rd shell struck to the base of a tower. On stn. Gorodets 7 hits from 18 are noted. The engines which are at station lifted couples and left station, having left in the direction of Kobrin. Damages are not established. One shell blew up in the city. In total 25 shells are let out.

Mikheyev [executed].

From the diary of separately operating guerrilla group of N. A. Shchors of the Brest Region about fighting activity of group from July 13 till December 3, 1943//the National guerrilla movement in Belarus in days of the Great Patriotic War (June 1941 July, 1944): documents and materials: in 3 t. - Minsk: Belarus, 1978. – T. 2. Development of the national guerrilla movement during the second period of war. – Book the second (July – December, 1943). – Page 511-513. 

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