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(Mikhail Nikolaevich Tupitsyn, is awarded by 4 awards and many medals, the member of CPSU since 1930. Now M. N. Tupitsyn the lieutenant colonel in resignation, the merit pensioner of allied value. Lives in Moscow).

… At meeting with command it was decided to allocate from groups of Chernak and the name Frunze till 70-80 of people and as destructive groups under I.F. Selivonik and N. A. Martysyuk's command to direct through a front line under Brest …

… All guerrillas on solemn meeting were handed awards. Going to field army arranged warm farewell.

We already picked up the main workers for Antopolsky, Divinsky, Kobrin, Maloritsky, Zhabinkovsky, Domachevsky and Brest districts. From their number small task forces headed by first secretaries of district committees of party and chairmen of district executive committees were created: vol. T.F. Subbotin, S. S. Plyanto, V. T. Novikov, N. N. Nikolaev, etc. Selection of shots for other districts of the area carried out underground regional committee of party. The decision on S. I. Sikorsky's statement the chairman of the Brest regional executive committee took place.

News of break of the front of enemy defense in east regions of Belarus was apprehended by us as a signal to moving. On July 9-10 our "garrison" went to borders of the Brest region.

Antopol - the first regional center of area. It is a little destroyed, probably, aggressors had to clean up from here in big haste …

… It was necessary to hurry before dark to get to Kobrin. Held small meeting with workers who went to all settlements to hold there meetings and to restore all local bodies of the Soviet power. The district executive committee prepared the resolution on cancellation of all laws established by invaders.

Kobrin. On streets - military and civil, guerrillas with red ribbons in buttonholes of jackets and on headdresses. The trunk main - the Moscow highway - is loaded by the troops which are going west. Though it was already front city, but, appear, nobody paid attention to it, nobody thought of a possibility of a raid of enemy aircraft.

On the square the sentence of a military court is carried just out - one of fascist bandits is hung up. There arrived the secretary of a district committee S. S. Plyanto. From a district committee dispersed only at daybreak. And held the same meeting in the morning, as well as in Antopole.

Next day we received an encryption from Sikorsky. He reported that he expects us in the camp under Ivatsevichami. Decided to go there, and then to all cleared regions of area. Before war the distance between Kobrin and Ivatsevichami by car was overcome at most in 2-3 hours. Now another matter. Fascists, receding, in many places destroyed not only bridges, but also a roadbed. Often it was necessary to make the way on roadsides of the highway and country roads. On the crossings which are hastily constructed by our troops there is a lot of turmoil …

Tupitsyn, M. N. Zhizn wins / M. N. Tupitsyn//Bug fire: [collection of memories of the Great Patriotic War] / edition N. M. Butrimovich, A. P. Kosteletskaya. – Minsk: Belarus, 1977. – Page 429-443. Memories of the first secretary of the Brest regional committee and a city town committee of KPB(b) of release of area, including Kobrin district, from fascists.



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