Gapeev, Efim Danilovich

Born on March 8, 1908 in the village of Levenka, Starodubsky district (now Starodubsky district of the Bryansk region ). He peasant, graduated from the school of red veterinarians, worked in the mines of Donbass. In 1940-1941 he was the secretary of the Voronovsky district committee of the party of the Baranavichy region of the BSSR.

In the early days of the war, he participated in defensive battles as a commissar of the combined battalion of the militia of Homel . He was wounded, near Dobrush he was surrounded, on foot came out of it; He got to Moscow, where he underwent special training. In February 1942 he was sent to the rear of the Nazis on the territory of the Minsk region to carry out special tasks.

Since March 1943, he has been an authorized representative of the Central House of Labor and Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Lida Interdistrict Center, a member of the underground Baranavichy regional party committee. Since September 1943 - Secretary of the Lida underground city committee, district committee of the CP (b) B. At the same time, from March 1943 to July 1944, he was the commander of the partisan formation of the Lida zone (the underground pseudonym “Sokolov”), covering Lida, Yuratishsky, Radunsky, Voronovsky, Novogrudsky, Lyubchansky, Ivievsky districts. Composition: 6 brigades, 1 separate family unit with a total number of 4200 people.

After the war, at party work. He died in 1990, was buried in the Calvary cemetery in Minsk .

He was awarded the orders of the Red Banner, Suvorov, II degree, medals "Partisan of the Patriotic War", I and II degrees. Honorary Citizen of Lida .

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