Danilo Boyovich ( Serb. Danilo Boјoviћ ; 1910 , Kuti - March 3, 1943 , Mount Konsko) - Yugoslav Montenegrin student and partisan of the People's Liberation War , People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
| Danilo Boyovich | |
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| Serb. Danilo Boјoviћ | |
| Date of Birth | 1910 |
| Place of Birth |  Kuti , Kingdom of Montenegro |
| Date of death | March 3, 1943 |
| Place of death |  Mount Konsko , Independent State of Montenegro |
| Nationality |  Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | partisan student |
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Biography
Born in 1910 in the village of Kuti near Niksic . He studied at schools in the cities of Zhupa and Niksic. He received his secondary education in Niksic, and later entered the Law Faculty of the University of Belgrade . Member of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia since 1934, member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia since 1937. During the training he was in the Student Law Society and the Legal Defense Society. He participated in student demonstrations and several mass fights with members of the fascist ZBOR movement. Repeatedly arrested.
Boyovich has been in the ranks of the partisan movement since 1941. One of the organizers of the July 13 Uprising in Niksic. He commanded the Zhupsky rebel battalion since its formation. He was elected to the Niksic District Committee of the Communist Party at the party congress on October 15, 1941 in Dubrava near Gorne Pole. He participated in battles in the midst of the Third Anti-Partisan Offensive: after the partisans retreated to Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 1942, he moved to an illegal position.
At the end of February 1943, a special detachment of gendarmes and Chetniks began an operation to eliminate Boyovich. A group of fighters led by Danilo was surrounded in a house on Mount Konsko. When trying to get out of the encirclement on March 3, 1943, Boyovich was killed.
On July 11, 1945, the Presidium of the Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia posthumously awarded Danil Boyovich the title of People's Hero of Yugoslavia.
Literature
- “ Folk Heroes of Yugoslavia ”. Љubљana - Beograd - Titograd: Partizanska kњiga - People’s kњiga - Pobeda. 1982.
- Srpski biographical river boat (kњiga prva). “Mother of Srpska” Novi Sad, 2004. Godina.