however, this battle went down in history thanks to the young partisan misha belush, who repeated thet of the legend. in the mostovsky district, in an ordinary peasant family, they lived poorly, so not only the parents, but also little misha had to work a lot. in 1938, my father died, things became even more difficult, and then the war came. one day , the nazis burst into the village, burned all the houses, and drove the residents away to germany. among them was misha’s mother. the boy himself , together with his younger brother, managed to hide in the forest, and so he ended up in the partisan detachment of the october first may brigade. this is what i remembered about my first meeting with mikhail belyshem, a native of lida kuriyan. in november 1942, i was sent as part of a sabotage group to the enemy's rear. we arrived in lepechanskaya pushcha in the grodno region, one day in the spring of 1943 i happened to stay in one of the houses in the village of zachepichi. district in which there was a skinny boy of about 15 years old, along with his younger brother, the conversation flowed