The Nezhinsk underground Komsomol youth organization is an underground anti-Nazi organization that was active in the city and at the Nizhyn station from February to August 1943 during the Great Patriotic War . Prior to registration, the organization wore the status of an underground group (from autumn 1941 to winter 1943).
Content
Background
After the occupation of the city of Nezhin by Wehrmacht troops on September 13, 1941 , an underground group headed by Yakov Petrovich Batyuk arose in the city. The group carried out a number of sabotage , distributed to the population reports of the Soviet Information Bureau . In February 1943 , at the organizational meeting of the group, it was decided to establish the Nezhin underground Komsomol youth organization .
Activity
In March 1943 , the organization established contact with the Nosovsky underground district party committee (chairman - Mikhail Ivanovich Stratelates). The underground workers transferred Soviet prisoners of war to the partisans , gave them 150 rifles, a lot of ammunition and medicine, collected intelligence data , organized mass propaganda work among the population, sabotage and sabotage on railways and highways, destroyed the telegraph and telephone communication line between the cities of Nezhin and Bakhm and highway routes destroyed the telegraph and telephone communication line between the cities of Nezhin and Bakhm. , made people vaccinated against typhus - so many were saved from being forced to work in Germany .
Exposing
At the end of July 1943 , the Gestapo, with the help of a provocateur, ran into the trail of the organization and most of its members, including its leader, Ya. P. Batiuk , were arrested. After long tortures on the night of September 6 to September 7, 1943 , all 26 arrested underground workers were transported by two trucks to the railway station, where they were shot at the destroyed water tower in the military warehouse.
The remaining members of the organization joined the guerrilla unit "For the Motherland!" .
Memory
- September 26, 1943 the bodies of the executed members of the organization were reburied at the Central (Trinity) cemetery of the city of Nezhin .
- In 1963 , a memorial plaque was installed at the place of execution of 26 underground workers.
- By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 8, 1965 , Yakov Petrovich Batiuk , leader of the Nezhinsk underground underground Komsomol youth organization, was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin .
- In 1965 and 1974 in Nizhyn and Chernigov, respectively, the streets were named after the leader of the Nezhin underground Komsomol youth organization.
- In 1967 , in the park on the street. Batyuk in Nizhyn a bust of Yakov Petrovich Batyuk (sculptor Gutman Grigory Petrovich) is installed.
- In 1983 , a memorial was erected on the site of the graves of the organization’s members in the Central (Trinity) cemetery of the city of Nezhin (architect V. Kobets).
Sources
- Nezhinsk underground Komsomol youth organization // Chernihivshchyna: Encyclopedic Reference / ed. A. V. Kudritsky . - To .: Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990 . - pp. 506-507