red army, was captured under vyazma, escaped from captivity, came to the velei region in the town of iliyangage in underground activities. through back roads and secret paths, i reached the town of ilya. where he met jews and explained to them the purpose of his movement, felt the ground for communication, and became a conspirator under the pseudonym balandin fedor vasilyevich. then they called me fedot. the first steps were taken to revive komsomol work in the town of ilya and nearby villages. thus began the major day-to-day work. they had some kind of avenger brigade or something, i don’t know what it was my mother said, but there was a safe house here, and then some order came to him, he took his father too, they went to join the partisans from here from home, this is where - in 1942, my mother said, he was a motivated person, he wanted to fight the occupiers, a commander who had certain military skills, well... was price tag for the partisans, among the partisans he was tasked with leading out a large group of jews who were walking through the forests and... when they were in the villa