Yaremchuk, Vasily Maksimovich

Born in a Ukrainian peasant family. He worked in agriculture. In August 1930, with a Komsomol trip, he went to Donbass, worked as a fastener in a mine. He studied at the Kharkov Pedagogical Institute .
In 1932 he joined the CPSU (b) .

In 1935-1937 he served in the ranks of the Red Army . After demobilization until 1941, he worked as a teacher in the Novoivanovskaya secondary school of the Lozovsky district (Kharkov region).

With the outbreak of World War II, by decision of the Lozovsky District Committee of the Communist Party (b) U, he was sent to demolition courses, and in August 1941, to the Kotovsky partisan detachment, where he led the subversive group. Operating on the railway sections Lviv-Bryansk, Gomel-Bryansk, from October 1941 to December 1942 derailed 12 railway trains with military equipment and manpower of the enemy, blew up 12 railway bridges. On December 5, a group of partisans under his leadership blew up the Shalyginsky sugar factory . In December 1942 he was wounded, was under treatment.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of March 7, 1943, Yaremchuk Vasily Maksimovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 824) for military service to the Motherland in organizing the partisan movement in Ukraine.

In May 1943, as part of a group of 12 people, he was landed behind enemy lines on the territory of the Zhytomyr Region , where he organized sabotage on the railway sections of Sarny - Korosten, Sarny - Luninets. In early 1944, his group was transformed into a partisan detachment named after Karmalyuk, which he led. The detachment was active in the northern regions of the Rivne region and in February 1944 it joined forces with the Red Army.

In May 1944, a detachment under the command of V.M. During the period from May 1943 to August 1944, that is, the period before joining the Red Army, the detachment derailed 68 railway echelons with military equipment and enemy manpower. Over three and a half thousand enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed and wounded.

In 1948 he graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CP (b) U and was on pedagogical and economic work. He worked as the director of secondary school No. 139 in Kiev. In 1970 he retired.

He was buried at the Baykovsky cemetery in Kiev.

He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Red Banner, “Badge of Honor”, ​​the Polish Golden Cross of the Order of Virtue Military, and medals.

• In Kiev, on the building of secondary school No. 139, whose director worked V.M. Yaremchuk, he installed a memorial plaque.
• The name of V. M. Yaremchuk is embossed on a memorial to partisans and underground fighters of Vinnitsa in the city of Vinnitsa .

Yaremchuk, Vasily Maksimovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". (Retrieved March 20, 2009)