were sent to the red army at that very time, on the edge of a 40-kilometer gap in the village of zapolyethe headquarters of the first belarusian partisan brigade was located under the command of father minaev mina and filippovich shmelev, aka father minai, was born on 23 december 1891. in the village of the forest of the velizh district. now this 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 go through his hard, but bright life when we talk about minaev about dad. minaev, we must remember that, well, a man is such a thermonuclear leaven, who at one time went into a civil war. he created one of the first partisan detachments of the vitebsk province of the vitebsk province during the civil war from the age of 21, he commanded a detachment of the chenovsky detachment that 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 at all. for a peasant family, of course, his life is very difficult. he went thr