twenty-six-year-old mechanic kilin saw the crippled ones. crashed planes mixed with fragments of people'sies by explosions, with whom i shook hands literally a few minutes ago. nikolai survived miraculously, he hid in orzhi and forests for several days, learned that belarus was occupied, and took refuge with people. on january 6, 1943, on the eve of christmas, nikolai ilyin was enlisted in the dimitrov partisan detachment. he operated in the territory of several districts at once, kosovo, ruzhansky, berezovsky. at first, nikolai was a miner, learning the basics. rail war, and already in august he was appointed commander of a subversive group. scout saboteur, every operation which could have ended in death, because he acted behind enemy lines. he crossed the front line dozens of times, blew up trains, destroyed german garrisons, took languages, obtained secret maps, learned about the punitive forces, who got acquainted with wartime documents , became acquainted with his operations in which he participated, and said that well, this... belarusian when the late metropolitan philoret looked at