Zhunin, Sergey Georgievich

Sergei Zhunin was born on August 18, 1906 in the village of Medveditskoye (now the Kimrsky district of the Tver region ). After finishing four grades of school, he worked in his native village. In 1928, Junin was called up for service in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He graduated from the regimental school of the 80th Leningrad Rifle Regiment in Vitebsk and the courses of the highest economic personnel of the Red Army in Smolensk . The beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the 3rd-rank quartermaster Sergei Zhunin met the deputy commander of the 8th tank regiment of the 36th cavalry division of the 10th army of the Western Front . From the first day of the war - on its fronts. He participated in the battles in the Byelorussian SSR in the summer of 1941 , was surrounded. When leaving the encirclement, Junin was heavily shell-shocked during an enemy air attack. The comrades left him in one of the villages ^[1] .

After recovery, Junin set about creating a partisan formation. Initially, his group included four people. She began to perform her first operations in September 1941, attacked small German patrols and wagons, and carried out sabotage on the railways. Since the spring of 1942, the partisan detachment of Junin received number 36. Only in the summer of 1942, partisans of Junin derailed 13 trains, destroyed 24 armored vehicles, 3 railway bridges, 11 police stations, destroyed or incapacitated about 5,000 enemy soldiers and officers. In September 1942, by order of the underground Mogilyov Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, a partisan brigade of the Borisov Operational Center was created, commanded by Zhunin. The team included 6 units. Over the next three months, the brigade destroyed 42 volost governments and derailed 40 enemy echelons. By the beginning of 1943, about 1700 partisans were already part of the Junin brigade. The team operated not only in the Mogilev region, but also in other areas of the Byelorussian SSR. So, for four months of activity in the Brest region, Zhunin's partisans derailed 45 echelons, destroyed 64 highway bridges, 160 cars, 12 artillery pieces, and a large number of other military equipment. In June 1944, the brigade united with units of the Red Army ^[1] .

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 15, 1944 for "exemplary fulfillment of command assignments in the fight against the German invaders, courage and heroism shown for special merits in the development of the partisan movement," Colonel Sergei Zhunin was awarded the high rank of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the order Lenin and the Gold Star medal ^[1] .

After the war ended, Junin was sacked. He lived in Brest , then in Minsk , was in party positions. He died on January 27, 1977, was buried in Minsk ^[1] .

He was also awarded the Orders of the Red Banner and the Red Star , along with a number of medals ^[1] .

In honor of Zhunin, a street was named in the village of Krugloye, the Mogilev region, a bust was installed in the courtyard of the Minsk school No. 100 ^[1] .

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