vasily trophy voronyansky, one of the leaders of the partisan movement in the minsk region during the patriotic war, was born on august 25 , 1901 in the village of dekanka, poltava region, participant in the civil war and battles near the lake hasan in 1938. for impeccable service he was awarded a personalized watch from the people's commissar of defense varoshilov. at the beginning of the great patriotic war, he was surrounded, with a handful of fighters he made his way to the east, they managed to get to the lagoi region and organize the avenger partisan detachment, which later grew into a brigade. voronyansky's partisans destroyed more than 13,000 german soldiers and policemen. they derailed 161 trains, blew up 152 bridges, destroyed seven aircraft, five tanks, 325 vehicles and six guns. in september 1943 the plane on which voronyansky was flying to moscow came under fire. the commander of the partisan brigade was mortally wounded. soon after the death of cambrig, the partisans received. a radiogram informing that the people's avengers partisan brigade was named after its commander