it, the germans delivered weapons and troops to the front, not far from the mechanical village of kaikovaing when it is a very large village and the owner's forest. now this kaikovsky was based on several partisan orders and, accordingly, a lot of the population of our churches was left by men old women left in partizansk partizans were sent behind enemy lines with the task of carrying out reconnaissance and sabotage communications, so they tried to select in these groups those who were born in this area and knew local people, that’s how one of them ended up in the future commander of the partisan brigade named after kalinina leonid saroka. leonid iosifovich soroka was born in 1919 in the village of a curve, a former zaslavsky village. and now the minsk region in october 1939. leonid was drafted into the red army. he received his baptism of fire near moscow in 1941, then there was the study of a special category at school. at the end of september 1942, forty, together with radio operator alexandra gorkova , were parachuted into the area of ​​the village of the crossroads of the pre-war ru