minai filipovich shmyrev, also known as father minai, was born on december 23, 1891, in the village ofche, velezhsky district. now this is the territory of the vitebsk region. his fate is truly unique in terms of the scale of events and terrible trials that he had to go through during his difficult but bright life. when we talk about minai, about dad speaking of shmyrov, we must remember that this is a man of such thermonuclear ferment, who at one time went through a civil war, created one of the first partisan detachments of the vitebsk province, still vitebsk. or rather, during the civil war, from the twenty -first year he commanded a detachment, the chenov detachment, which fought against banditry, so it was natural that when the great patriotic war began, this man took an active part in the belarusian resistance, dad was born in general the peasant family, of course, his life is very difficult, he went through three wars, while still reigning in the fatherland, as they say, in 1944 , minai’s first wife, proskovya, died. the widower had four young children in his care. when shmirev