Shelushkov, Grigory Ivanovich

Born on May 19, 1899 in the village of Rudnya-Bronskaya, now in the Rogachev district of the Gomel region, in a peasant family. Byelorussian. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1925.

After the revolution in early 1918, G. I. Shelushkov voluntarily went to the Red Army . Member of the Civil War.

In 1926, he was demobilized and worked first as an accountant in the district insurance office of the city of Poltava, and then - in various economic positions of the Poltava district construction trust.

In 1929, G.I. Shelushkov was elected secretary of the party organization of this trust, and in 1931 - secretary of the party organization of the Grebenka railway station. From 1932 to 1937 he was at trade union and economic work. Since 1937, G. I. Shelushkov - Secretary of the Party Committee of the Progress Plant, instructor of the Berdychiv District Party Committee. In 1940, he was elected first secretary of the Korostyshevsky district committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

When the Great Patriotic War began , the Zhytomyr Regional Committee of the Communist Party was engaged in the selection of personnel for work behind enemy lines. G.I.Shelushkov was approved as the secretary of the underground regional party committee. In early July 1941, he arrived in Zhitomir and got a job as a janitor at a bakery. I got acquainted with the situation, studied people and made connections.

At the beginning of 1942, G.I.Shelushkov managed to create about 20 underground groups in Zhitomir. He established contacts with underground groups in Korostyshevsky, Chudnovsky, Potievsky, Brusilovsky, Zhytomyr regions. In March 1942, a leading trio was created, headed by G.I. Shelushkov. The troika established close ties with the underground groups of the region and launched an active underground struggle against the invaders. The headquarters of the partisan movement in the region was named by G.I. Shelushkov as the combat core of the underground in the Zhytomyr region.

The activities of underground organizations and groups of the second half of 1941 and the first half of 1942 are characterized by mass agitation among the population, and the collection of weapons and ammunition for the further struggle. Underground organizations issued anti-fascist leaflets and appeals, which from the first months of the underground’s activities were handwritten and distributed among the population.

In March 1942, two printing houses were created in Zhitomir, and one each in the Chudnovsky and Korostyshevsky districts, and 5 typewriters were purchased. This made it possible to expand the production of leaflets and strengthen political work among the population. The headquarters of the partisan movement, created earlier by G.I. Shelushkov, which actually functioned as the underground party committee of the party, was created in August 1942 and was renamed the regional underground committee. Soon, the underground regional committee led the activities of all organizations and groups of the city, and then the region.

At the end of 1942, about 75 underground organizations and groups, uniting nearly 2.5 thousand people, already operated in the Zhytomyr region. Underground organizations had 28 radio sets, 5 printing houses, 5 typewriters at their disposal, which were used to propagate leaflets and newspapers. Underground organizations of the Zhytomyr region during the Nazi occupation 102500 copies of leaflets were printed.

Great help was provided by the underground members of the region to partisan detachments and formations. They prepared and sent 2,364 fighters to the partisans, delivered 1,502 rifles, 3,243 grenades, 11 easel and 70 light machine guns, 31 machine guns, 56 pistols, about 200 thousand cartridges, 16 centners of toll, 245 shells and mines. The underground organizations of the region supplied partisan detachments with foodstuffs, clothes, shoes, medicines, and helped them with intelligence. Four workshops for the repair of weapons were organized.

Underground organizations derailed 34 enemy echelons with manpower and enemy equipment, blew up 18 bridges, destroyed 19 vehicles. Underground workers destroyed telephone and telegraph communications, smashed the garrisons of the Germans. They did a great job of organizing mass sabotage of the political, economic and military activities of the invaders.

On April 10, 1943, a party conference was convened to discuss the tasks of further struggle against the invaders. It was attended by 19 delegates from district and grassroots organizations. The conference decided to intensify the armed struggle against the fascists and their accomplices, to create new and new partisan detachments. At the conference, a regional party committee was elected. Grigory Ivanovich Shelushkov and Alexei Demyanovich Borodiy were elected secretaries of the regional committee.

In May 1943, the underground regional party committee was preparing for the underground to join the partisan detachments in order to launch a massive open struggle against the German invaders. But just before the operation, on May 25, 1943, the provocateurs who infiltrated the committee extradited its leaders. At this time, G.I.Shelushkov was arrested. On May 30, 1943, after brutal torture in the dungeons of the Gestapo, Grigory Ivanovich Shelushkov and Alexei Demyanovich Borodiy were shot.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 8, 1965, Grigory Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero for the special merits in organizing and leading the Zhytomyr underground regional party committee, courage and heroism shown in the struggle against Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, to the secretary of the Zhytomyr underground regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Shelushkov. Soviet Union . He was awarded the Order of Lenin .

A monument was erected in the city of Zhitomir Hero, a street in Berdichev was named after him. In the forest near the village of Dovzhik, three kilometers from Zhytomyr, an obelisk was erected at the site of the execution of G.I.Shelushkov and A.D. Borodiy. In the city of Korostyshev, Zhytomyr region, on the Alley of Heroes, G. I. Shelushkov, a bust was installed, at the entrance of the Progress plant in the city of Berdichev, a memorial plaque.

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Grigory Ivanovich Shelushkov (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ". Date of treatment January 31, 2014.