Borovichi Petr Ivanovich

(12.VI.1918, der. Borovichevka Roslavl district - 7.IH.1997, Smolensk).
Graduated Shantalovsky an agrarian (1937). In the Red Army from 1938. In 1940. graduated from the Smolensk Artillery School. Member of the Great Patriotic War from June 1941. Commander artbatarei. In August 1941. was surrounded, was seriously wounded. After recovery, created a group, then a large guerrilla unit 'For the Motherland', which was commanded by November 1942. Detachment joined in the 2-nd Kletnyanskoy Partisan Brigade, which operated in the districts of Smolensk in Belarus. He commanded the battalion, was a deputy brigade commander. From November 1943 to 1948. served in the Army. He fought on the 1 st Belorussian Front. He commanded an artillery battalion. Awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Alexander Nevsky, World War 1 st and 2 nd degree, medals. After his discharge he returned to the reserve in Smolensk. Elected Secretary of the District Party Committee, chairman of the kolkhoz, was director of the farm.

Vol.: Behind enemy lines: Memories and the organizer and commander of the guerrilla unit 'For the Motherland'. - Book One. - Smolensk, 1998; Suicide Bridge on the River Talk / / Military History Journal, 1983. -? 11, rout Krasnopolye Garrison / / Doenno History Journal, 1986. -? 6.