Unknown history of monuments of the Great Patriotic War of Divin    

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As usual on the eve of the Holiday of the Victory there are preparations for celebrations. According to well fulfilled scheme school students clean the territory, and the patron organizations under the sensitive management of selyispolkom carry out cosmetic and where it is necessary also capital repairs of graves of defenders of the Fatherland, the victims of wars and monuments to fellow countrymen, solemn meetings prepare.

At all solemnity it seems that nothing we learn new about memorials, not to establish a death detail to us, and those who are marked out on a monument to unknown so already by it and will remain.

Let's dispel these vain judgments. More and more new, earlier unknown, archival information appears with development of the Internet. As well as it is necessary we will begin with the central monument – the Mass grave of the Soviet soldiers who died at release of the regional center Divin.

Now very few people remember that Divin from 1940 to 1959 was the center of the area into which a half of the territory of present Kobrin entered. The inscription on a stele just also reports that the monument is established in 1949 from party and Komsomol workers of Divinsky district. At the end of the 1980th the monument at the expense of means of Kobrin office of the Belarusian volunteer society of protection of historical and cultural monuments of Belarus was wanted to be replaced. The bronze soldier was made, but was not enough for a pedestal of money. And there was disintegration of the Soviet Union. At the beginning of the 1990th soldiers stood in collective-farm workshops, then from it someone sawed off a leg. So far thought as back to fasten it, somehow and the monument disappeared, Ukraine where accepted color threw the benefit, nearby. And there was a historical reminder on long ago nonexistent area.

Meanwhile, mass graves in Divin and near the farm the Shouting are an evidence of attempts to exempt our earth from fascism for several months earlier, than it happened in reality. As we remember, Kobrin is released on July 20, 1944, but the Soviet troops to the Prut River in 20 km to the north of Yassa (in the territory of present Ukraine) came to the western border of the USSR already on March 26, 1944.

At the beginning of March, 1944 the Red Army resumed approach in Right-bank Ukraine against troops of group of Yug armies. Not to allow assistance by group of Centre armies to the southern neighbor, the Rate of General headquarters made the decision to strike blow in the direction of Kovel and Brest in a joint to groups of Centre and Yug armies. Carrying out operation was promoted by success achieved by troops of the 1st Ukrainian front in the Equal and Lutsk offensive operation. As the kovelsky direction was considered independent, the directive of the Rate of VGK of February 17, 1944 created the new front which received the name "the 2nd Belarusian" which structure included three general (47, 61 and 70) one air armies.

Extremely short deadlines allocated for preparation of blow the spring impassability of roads and backwardness of a network of roads did not allow the 2nd Belarusian front to concentrate troops completely. On March 15 troops of the 47th and 70th armies by the available forces took the offensive. Next day the 61st army struck blow. Despite extreme difficulties at approach in woody and the marshland in the conditions of a spring impassability of roads, by March 18 troops of the 47th army managed to promote on 30-40 km and to surround Kovel. the 70th army by March 20 overcame 60 km. For break elimination fascist command threw in a strip of the 2nd Belarusian front up to 8 divisions (including 1 tank), and also ski crew and 5 crews of assault tools. And groups of Centre armies were transferred to structure of the 2nd all connections of the 4th tank army of group of Yug armies operating against the 2nd Belorusky front Since March 23 fascist troops undertook a number of strong counterstrokes and, having broken on April 4 to Kovel, deblocked his garrison.

By April 5 the front line was stabilized at a boundary to the east of the cities of Kovel and Ratno. The opponent managed to keep in the hands practically all large settlements in a strip of actions of the front. Nevertheless, having delayed on itself significant forces of the German troops, the 2nd Belarusian front promoted successful approach on other directions, in particular to blow of the 1st Ukrainian front to Chernivtsi.

During operation the 2nd Belarusian front lost 11 132 persons, irrevocably 2761 from which 100 are buried in Divin and near the farm the Shouting. Losses of fascists were essential too, on memoirs fights were so hot, and there is a lot of dead that in funnels from shells was buried together and the Soviet soldiers and the German soldiers.

In conclusion we will tell about an imperceptible monument in the yard of the former garment factory. On it an inscription to "The victims of fascism shot in 1942". This memorial is considered the place of death of all pre-war Jewish population of the town of Divin therefore there is on a monument an inscription in Hebrew. However avaricious archival documents say that this final resting place and for locals of other nationalities. The matter is that in Kobrin zone archive post-war acts of establishment of losses of Divinsky district (fund of the Divinsky gosobepecheniye, fund 127, the inventory 1, the case 3) remained. It is necessary to pay tribute to workers of the Divinsky district military registration and enlistment office and district executive committee of those of years, the remained documents on Kobrin district it is much worse. Now from estimated quantity of buried – 1450 people, are known to us 130 people from whom the 75th not Jews. These are generally country families which fascists sentenced to death. Among families from the villages of Chemera, Habovich, Borisovka, Yagvinovo and other settlements of Divinsky district we will call the smallest: Boretsky Vasily Larivonovich - 6 l., Demchuk Anna Maksimovna 1938, Zanovsky Vasily Andreevich - 1941, Komisaruk Vera Grigoryevna 1938, Kulikovich Maria Yakovlevna 1939, Ozarchuk Vasily Sergeyevich 1940, Pashkovich Maria Nazarovna 1941, Savchuk Stefanie Ivanovna 1939.

Besides, on memoirs of locals Afanasy Gapanovich and Sergey Momlik Poles who gave help to the Regional army and deputies of Divinsky regional council of deputies are buried here. Why neither in Soviet period, nor in modern it was not told about the died deputies of regional council, we do not know.

It is much connected with one imperceptible monument, 130 surnames are already brought in the passport of burial in which there were 1320 unknown. We think that time to immortalize on a monument and their names will come.

Borisyuk, BB. Unknown history of monuments of the Great Patriotic War Divin / Yury Borisyuk//Kobrin - an inform. – 2012. – May 10.



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