Oleksiy Fedorov

Oleksiy Fedorovych Fedorov (, , Aleksey Fyodorovich Fyodorov; 30 March 1901 – 9 September 1989), was one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement during World War II. He was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, making him one of the only two partisan leaders to receive the title twice (the other being fellow Ukrainian Sydir Kovpak). Biography Oleksiy Fedorov was born in Lotsmanska Kamianka (today part of Dnipro) in a Ukrainian peasant family. In 1920 he joined the Red Army and fought in the Russian Civil War. In 1927 he joined Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by 1938 became a first secretary of the regional party committee in Chernihiv Oblast. After the Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union, Fedorov became a prominent organizer of the underground resistance in occupied Ukraine. Since September 1941 worked as the first secretary of the Chernigov partisan unit which by March 1942 had sixteen engagements with the enemy and killed over a thousand German troops. And from March 1943 also Volyn underground regional party committees, at the same time commander of the Chernigov-Volyn partisan unit of the NKVD of the USSR. In April 1943, A.F.Fedorov was promoted to the military rank of "Major General".In May 1942 Oleksiy Fedorov was awarded a title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin with a golden star. During the spring and summer of 1943 Fedorov's partisan units expanded guerrilla activities into other occupied regions of USSR outside north-east Ukraine including the Volyn, Belarus, Bryansk and Oryol regions. These years revealed the talent of Alexei Fedorov as an outstanding organizer of guerrilla warfare, one of the creators of guerrilla tactics. In April 1943, A.F.Fedorov was promoted to the military rank of "Major General". Fedorov, in addition to leading the fighting, carried out extensive work on the establishment of party organizations in the occupied territories and the mobilization of Soviet citizens to fight the Nazi invaders.