Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov Biography

Views: From the first days of the military confrontation between the Soviet people and the Nazi invaluations, partisans made an invaluable contribution to the victory. He became one of the first partisans awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Saburov was only 35 years old then. After graduating from school, he as a boy goes to work for a construction site, in an agricultural artel.

Here they immediately noticed the organizational abilities and business acumen of Alexander. Soon the young guy was called to lead the village council of the neighboring village. In administrative work, he stayed before the draft in the army. The young man was sent to Ukraine, where, after demobilization, he remained in the Zhytomyr region. At first, after the service, Saburov returned to the former pre-Army life and got a job as the chairman of one of the collective farms, but over time, the craving for military-political work took her.

The year has become one of the political workers of the NKVD. Soon, a household, sensible man was appointed to lead the fire department of Kyiv. Then the deputy head of the Kyiv courses of the management of correctionally labor camps and the colonies of the UITLK. A month after the start of the war, a large -scale Kyiv operation began. It was a large-scale battle, which ended in two months with a defeat of the South-Western Front, the loss of Kyiv.

At least thousands of people were surrounded. Losses in this battle amounted to more people. The battalion itself consisted of those same listeners of the Kyiv courses of the NKVD in an amount of about a person. The battalion fighters took up defense near the Irpen River, but were forced to retreat. Like many other retreating military units, the battalion of Saburov was surrounded by the Nazis, and was completely defeated by the enemy when trying to break through the village of Kharkovts.

Only nine, including Alexander Nikolaevich, survived. Breaking out of the encirclement, they had to go more than kilometers. The fighters hid in the forests of Ukraine on the border with the Bryansk forests, and Saburov managed to maintain a working radio station in battles. Saburov and his comrades first tried to cross the front line in order to break through to their own, but quickly realized that it was impossible.

Alexander Nikolaevich then decided to make sabotage in the rear of the enemy, and created a detachment of nine people, united with several surviving warriors. According to his memoirs, already in September they began to make active sorties against the Germans, in particular, such a complex and responsible operation was carried out as the complete extermination of the fascist part at the Zernovo station, which was an important knot on the Kyiv -Moscow railway line.

Saburov also began to actively combine efforts with other tiny detachments of fighters who survived after German strikes. All of them took refuge in the Bryansk forest - a huge, endless forest massif on the border with Ukraine. The commissar acted simply and efficiently. He was looking for these small scattered detachments and agreed on regular communications with their commanders, in order to centrally transfer information about military partisan sorties to Moscow in a radio.

Since at first each partisan group committed its sabotage on its own, based on their own understanding of the situation, thanks to the coordination of Saburov, partisans began to act together. And over and over again, their sabotage caused damage to the enemy more and more. After months, by the middle of the spring of the year, the detachments coordinated by Saburov had already counted a person.

Reports on the successes of the partisans, which Saburov telegraphed, were perceived in the headquarters as a miracle. And the Germans had to delay considerable forces to protect communications and warehouses. The number of partisans-Saburovites continuously grew, and by the end of the war it reached 6.5 thousand. In this small army there were their doctors and nurses, moreover, the fighters even managed to release their own newspaper called “Partizan Pravda”.

At the same time, the first few months, the Saburovites did not receive any help from the Soviet troops at all - medicines, weapons, they mined their own supplies. Only in the year, Stalin became aware of what partisan detachments are being made and what great assistance they provide in the fight against the Nazis. Then they began to supply them with radio, deliver weapons, medicines and ammunition.

From March to April, Saburov commanded a partisan compound that operated in the Sumy, Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne and other regions of Ukraine, as well as the Bryansk and Oryol regions of Russia and in the southern regions of Belarus. In the summer, a radiogram came, in which Stalin ordered ten partisan commanders, including Saburov, to arrive from the Bryansk forests and swamps to meet him to hold a large -scale meeting and develop a strategy for conducting a folk rebel fight against the enemy together.

Soon Saburov was in Moscow. At the first general meeting, he reported to Stalin the situation in his site and reported that the Saburovtsev detachments were launched by the 32 military echelon of the Nazis, 28 steam locomotives, more than half a thousand wagons, one and a half hundred platforms and 9 tanks with fuel were destroyed. The next day, Stalin met with Saburov personally.Alexander Ivanovich was given the task of leaving all his compound for the Dnieper, and continue to fight to osit the sabotage there.

Despite the great complexity of this operation, the Saburovites coped with her successfully. The hero of the war subsequently described all the feats of his partisan comrades in his memoirs and in six art books. There was something to talk about: in total, Saburov’s detachments destroyed more than 37 thousand Germans. He showed himself a brilliant commander and a skilled strategist.

Indeed, in those years of future officers, no one taught to wage a partisan war. Everything was built on intuition, on the ability to quickly make decisions, instantly change tactics depending on the circumstances. Alexander Saburov did everything so that the losses were minimal - each operation was carefully thought out. Of course, the Saburovites were far from the only partisan union acting during the Great Patriotic War.

However, almost certainly the most famous. The merits of the partisan detachment led by Saburov were impressive: during the war years, he destroyed almost 37 thousand German soldiers, wounded, captured by a man. The 61 garrison, 97 commandant’s and managers were defeated, launched downhill with soldiers, equipment and ammunition of the enemy, steam locomotives were destroyed, 24 railway bridges and highways were blown up, fuel, 92 tanks, 62 guns, 99 warehouses were destroyed.

At the same time, the Saburovites themselves lost a little more fighters killed. From November to March GO, the union under the command of Alexander Saburov with the battles was held on the rear of the enemy of about 7 thousand kilometers. From August 31 to March 16, A.