Biography Nikolai Vasiliev

The memorial plaque Vasiliev Nikolay Grigoryevich-commander of the 2nd Special Partisan Brigade, Lt. Col. Born on June 27 in the city of Dvinsk now Daugavpils, the Republic of Latvia in the family of an employee. Member of the CPSU B from the year. He graduated from three classes in Dvinsk, and the 4th and 5th-in the village of Falevo Valdai district of the Petrograd province.

He worked since the years: first on the farm of his father and mother, since November in the village of Yashcherovo - the liquidator of illiteracy in the school for illiterate. Since February, he worked as the head of a reading hut in the village of Yam-Zimogorye. In October, he became the chairman of the Bureau of young pioneers in the district committee of the RKSM. Then he worked as the head of the hut-reading in the village of Russian Noviki.

I survived two assassination attempts. At first they tried to burn it with the reader. The fists involved in the arson were devoted to the revolutionary tribunal. Then they shot at the activist. He graduated from one and a half -month courses of the Valdai district party asset, two -month courses of political entertainers in Leningrad. In October, he was drafted for military service in the Rifle Rifle Rifle Division named after Kikvidze of the Leningrad Military District, deployed in Novgorod.

He served as a machine gunner there. After graduating from the younger commanders, he became a junior commander, remained for the super -working service and was appointed secretary of the Komsomol Bureau of the regiment. Then he graduated from the school of junior command staff, courses at the political administration of the Leningrad Military District. In absentia he graduated from the Communist Political and Educational Institute.

Krupskaya now-St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts. He served as an instructor in the political department, edited a division newspaper. In May, he was appointed to the post of political officer of the school of the junior command personnel, since August - the instructor of the political department of the Rifle Division. In October, the senior political instructor N.

Vasiliev was appointed head of the Novgorod garrison club of the Leningrad Military District House of the Red Army. He worked in this position before the start of the Great Patriotic War. When German troops approached the Novgorod region and the evacuation of enterprises and organizations began, an employee of the headquarters of the North-Western Front A. Asmolov, who was engaged in the organization of the partisan movement, was proposed by N.

Vasiliev go to the partisans. Vasiliev agreed without hesitation. A few days later he went to Old Russa, where the 2nd special partisan brigade was formed. There he was appointed commander of this brigade. At the end of July, the teams of the brigade crossed the front line and settled in the Serbolov forests of the Pskov region, in the supreme region of the Polish River.

At first, combat operations were limited to the liberation of individual villages from the enemy, but after a while the extensive territory in the area limited by the settlements of Staraya Russa - the bottom - the runner - hill, was completely occupied by the partisans. The district had a size of 80 kilometers and soon received the name of the Partizan Republic. There, in the rear of the German army, village councils, collective farms were restored, schools, medical institutions worked, Soviet newspapers came out.

Residents submitted agricultural products to the state. Its center was Kruglovo. The partisan hospital was in the village of Glotovo. The partisans had their own forest printing house, producing newspapers and leaflets. Aviation delivered weapons. The planes took about a thousand wounded. In January, when the North-Western Front began active hostilities, eight detachments of the 2nd Special Partisan Brigade struck the German garrison in the city of Hill.

Near the soldiers and officers, 70 vehicles, a radio station were destroyed. 20 officers and more enemy soldiers were destroyed. On the night of February 22, partisans broke into the village of Dedovichi. As a result of the raid, German soldiers and officers were destroyed, a warehouse with ammunition was blown up, a bridge over the Shelon River, and traffic on the railway were interrupted.

In March of the year, the command of the 2nd Special Partisan Brigade, led by N. Vasiliev, organized the sending to the besieged Leningrad through the territory occupied by the enemy, a convoy from the supply with food for the starving city. The convoy went along forest roads and swamps for more than kilometers, crossed the front line and safely reached Leningrad.

The Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement to assist the partisans N. Vasiliev transferred through the front line the 1st, 4th and 5th partisan brigades. The united partisan forces continued to apply powerful blows to the enemy. 10 thousand invaders, 26 tanks, 25 bunkers, 6 aircraft, 95 firing points of the enemy, 28 military echelons, cars with infantry and cargo, 16 railway bridges, and 16 railway bridges were destroyed in a year.

The partisan region lasted until September. The Germans sent several large punitive expeditions against him, supported by tanks and aviation. The last punitive expedition was the fourth in the row from August 7 to September 22. Over six thousand infantry soldiers participated in it. The Germans managed to occupy the territory of the Partizan Republic.

The partisans went to other areas.Some brigades went beyond the front line, were reorganized and sent again to the rear of the enemy. Some partisans, led by N. Vasiliev, covering the way out of the encirclement of the main forces, remained in the territory occupied by the enemy. Since September 7, this small group wandered through the swamps. Dressed in the summer, the partisans lived in the conditions of colds and raw fogs.

Many caught a cold, seriously ackled the lungs and N. Food ended, on September 18, the radio education ended and the connection with the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement ended. Vasiliev decided to go to the "large land". He spent his people along the forest roads and on September 28 crossed the front line in the area of ​​the village of Princess Klin.

After the rest and reorganization in November, at the head of the brigade to the person of a seriously ill, N. Vasiliev from Valdai again moved to the Serbolovsky forests, where a small group of partisans was previously transferred to the head of the city of the brigade managed to deliver several blows to enemy garrisons. Partisan intelligence reported that the enemy was pulling out large forces to destroy the brigade.

Vasiliev decided to relocate from Dedovichi to Novorzhevsky district of the Pskov region. However, he opened hemoptysis with abundant bleeding from the lungs. In the first half of December, he was urgently taken to the large land by plane and placed in a hospital in the city of Vyshny Volochek. Doctors noted the fleeting form of tuberculosis. Despite all the efforts of the doctors, on March 25, N.

Vasiliev, who was awarded the title of lieutenant colonel in January, died. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 2, for courage and heroism, manifested in the partisan struggle against the Nazi invaders, Lieutenant Colonel Vasiliev Nikolai Grigoryevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. He was buried in the city of Valdai on the Central Square next to the other outstanding partisan commander Hero of the Soviet Union A.

Herman, where he erected monuments. His name was assigned to the 2nd Leningrad Partisan Brigade, in post -war times - avenue in the city of Valdai, a street in the city of Pskov and the House of Culture in Novgorod earlier - the House of the Red Army, now the city center of culture and leisure named after this center is a memorial plaque. On one of the buildings of N.

Vasiliev Avenue, an information board was installed in Valdai. On Nikolai Vasiliev Street in Pskov, information boards are also installed. He was awarded two orders of Lenin 7.