Andreev, Alexander Georgievich (partisan)

Born on November 5, 1919 in the city of Livny, Oryol Region.

After graduating from school, he worked at an engineering plant.

In the Red Army since 1939, he graduated from a military school, participant in the War with Finland - commanded a platoon of scouts.

World War II

Since July 1941, on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, he participated in the Smolensk battle as part of the 24th army, during the battles near Yelnya , he was surrounded, along with his unit, and in the autumn he joined a partisan regiment named after Sergei Lazo, commanded by V. Kazubsky , where he became the commander of the 2nd battalion of up to 1000 soldiers.

Among the ten fighters of the partisan detachment in July 1942, the Front Order on the troops of the Western Front signed by the front commander of the Army General G.K. Zhukov was awarded the Order of Lenin , the order was issued according to the list presented by the commander of the detachment V.V. Kazubsky , without submitting award sheets, contents feat is not indicated. ^[one]

In the summer of 1942 he studied at a partisan special school in Barvikha.

In September 1942, with a detachment of paratroopers, he was abandoned in the rear of German troops in the Smolensk region, where a detachment destroyed the German sabotage school near the village of Pasino.

At the end of October 1942, Andreev’s detachment united with the main forces of the paratroopers, forming the Paratrooper Guerrilla Unit. 25 years of October, in which Andreev became chief of staff. The detachment operated on the territory of the Andreevsky, Sychevsky districts from October 1942 to March 1943, then joined with the units of the Red Army.

Field Army

Since the summer of 1943 - guard captain, senior assistant to the head of the intelligence department for military intelligence of the headquarters of the 36th Guards Rifle Corps of the 11th Guards Army .

Until the end of the war, despite the fact that when he was wounded near Orsha, he lost one eye and was shell-shocked near Köningsberg, he organized reconnaissance, providing command of the corps with data on enemy troops, participating in hostilities on the Bryansk, Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts. So, in July 1943, during the Battle of Kursk, he opened a group of 9 enemy tank divisions :

On July 20, 1943, Andreev, being in the 84th Guards Rifle Division , organized 2 search groups, captured the control prisoner and documents, which opened up the group of forces of the 9th tank division of the enemy. On the night of July 28-29, 1943, he and the reconnaissance group of the 217th Infantry Division broke into the village of Bulgakovo and freed him.

- from the award sheet to the Order of the Patriotic War of August 27, 1943, signed by the head of the intelligence department of the corps

Demobilized in May 1945 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

After the war

He lived in the village of Yershichi, Smolensk region, worked in the Yershichi district committee of the CPSU (b).

Later he moved to the village of Stodolische, Pochinkovsky district of the Smolensk region, led the village communal services.

He died on February 2, 1998, was buried in the village cemetery of the village of Stodolishche.

After the war, he married Maria Sudenkova - a former undercover employee and nurse of the Partisan detachment named after Lazo, in September 1942, captured by the Germans and passing a concentration camp, after the war became the head physician and surgeon of the Stodolischensky district hospital, Honored Doctor of the RSFSR (1967).

He was awarded the orders of Lenin (07/09/1942), World War I 1st (04/06/1985) and 2nd (08/27/1943) degrees, medals, including the "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree.

• Anna Alekseevna Gorshenkova, local historian - Alexander Georgievich Andreev / Session of the club of local history experts “Phoenix”, Website “Heritage of the Smolenskaya land”, 2017
• The local historians of the Phoenix club got acquainted with the biography of the partisan // Smolensk Regional Local History Society, 2017
• Andreev Alexander Georgievich // Smolensk Necropolis