Rado " Korchagin " Yovchevsky ( Maked. Rade "Korchagin" Kovchevski ; August 14, 1919 , Skopje - February 20, 1943 , ibid) - Yugoslav Macedonian tanner, partisan of the times of the National Liberation War of Yugoslavia , People's Hero of Yugoslavia .
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 Monument to Rade Yovchevsky in the courtyard of the Skopje gymnasium | |
| Date of Birth | August 14, 1919 |
| Place of Birth | Skopje , the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Date of death | February 20, 1943 (23 years) |
| Place of death | Skopje , Third Bulgarian Kingdom |
| Allegiance |  Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | leather worker, partisan |
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Biography
Rado Yovchevsky was born on August 14, 1919 in Skopje into a family of artisans. He graduated from elementary school and two classes of the gymnasium, after which he engaged in tanning. Attended a commercial school, in 1937 he went to Belgrade and got a job as a furrier. In Belgrade, he joined the revolutionary and working-class movement, in 1938 he was elected secretary of the leather workers section, since 1939 a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia . The police became interested in the suspicious activity of Rado and evicted him from Belgrade to Skopje.
After that, Rado continued his revolutionary activities in Skopje, where he became a functionary in the labor movement and organized strikes and demonstrations. In 1940, he became a party worker, but in the same year, the police conducted another round-up. In Belgrade, he was arrested and imprisoned in Glavnyach prison, where he was mistreated. After his release from prison, Rado was forced to confine himself to traveling from Belgrade to Skopje and back to carry out party assignments. In the summer of 1941, Rado returned to Skopje and joined the partisan movement, joining the 1st Skopje Partisan Detachment on August 22 and adopting the partisan pseudonym "Korchagin". In April 1942, the Bulgarian military tribunal sentenced Rado in absentia for anti-state activities to death, the police promised a reward for his capture. The police discovered Rado not far from the Pobogye monastery, but he decided to let them close and then threw a grenade. Taking advantage of the turmoil after the explosion, he escaped from the environment. Since the spring of 1942, he was political director of the 2nd Skopje Partisan Detachment .
In January 1943, Rado Yovchevsky became a political leader of the Skopje-Kosovo partisan detachment, where the Macedonians and Kosovo Albanians served. On January 29, 1943, the squad was defeated, and Yarchevsky’s friend Aleksandar Urdarevsky was killed in battle. Only one group of partisans managed to hide in the mountains. Rado went to Skopje to establish contact with the underground, but was identified by one of the police spies and was forced to hide in the first house on Madzhir Maalo street. While trying to escape, he was badly wounded and then shot.
Memory
- On October 8, 1953, by the decree of Josip Broz Tito Rado, Yovchevsky was given posthumously the title of the National Hero of Yugoslavia.
- The name of Rade Yovchevsky is a gymnasium in Skopje, in the area of Prolet.
Literature
- “Macedonian Encyclopedia”, MANU, Skopje, 2009, 645 pp.
- Aleksandar Spasovski “Rade Kovchevsky-Korchagin (application of con bibliography)”, Skopje, 1983.