region, one day in the spring of 1943, i happened to stay in one of the houses in the village of zachepichi in which there was a skinny boy of about 15 years old, along with his younger brother. word by word the conversation flowed. i found out that his name is misha, he has long been burning with the desire to fight the enemy, he is looking for a meeting with the partisans, at first he did not want to admit who i was and where i was from, but sensing his sincerity, he said that he had arrived here on instructions from the partisans. then misha belush confidentially said that he had a cache of weapons, when it got dark, we quietly made their way to the cache and took out several rifles with cartridges from it, and then together with misha they went to the partisan detachment of the october pervomai brigade. commanded by alexander alexandrovich gorelik. true, they didn’t want to enroll misha in the detachment right away. the boy was still very young. but then they thought about where to go and left the teenager. dutiful, resourceful, very brave, participated in many military operations, took