minai filipovich shmyrev, aka father minai, was born on december 23, 1891 in the village of punishcherict, now the territory of the vitebsk region. his fate is truly unique in terms of the scale of events and terrible trials through which he had to to go through your difficult but bright life. when we talk about minai, about father minai, about shmyrov, we must remember that. well, this is a man of such thermonuclear ferment, who at one time went through a civil war, and created one of the first partisan detachments of the vitebsk province, back in the vitebsk province during the civil war, from the twenty-first year he commanded a detachment, a chenov detachment that fought against banditry, therefore, it was natural that when the great patriotic war began, this man took an active part in the belarusian resistance. there was a dad, he was born into a christian family, of course, his life was very difficult, he went through three wars, also for the tsar and the fatherland, as they say, in 1940 , minai’s first wife, proskovya, died, and four young children were in the care of the widow