on the day the war began, june 22, 1941, father vasily kopychka turned 36 years old.served in the church of the assumption of the blessed virgin mary in the village of adrigin in the modern ivanovo district when they began to operate in the area. partisans, a priest at his home, organized meetings of the commanders of partisan units. he says in direct text, addressing male people who were, as they say, healthy, that you are sitting here, take a weapon and join a partisan detachment, protect your loved ones, your homeland from these monsters. father vasily was a liaison officer of the molotov detachment, worked under the operational pseudonym kirillov, like a shepherd, traveled around villages, cast the dead, supported the living. at the same time, he watched the police, eavesdropped, then passed it on to detachment information about german technology and punitive actions. he conducted funerals where, where i can’t even imagine what they buried in a coffin, not a dead person, but they buried medicine, food for the partisans, clothes, he would sit on the cart, cover wit