- Alexander Saburov
Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov ( _ru. Сабуров Александр Николаевич) (
August 1 ,1908 -April 15 ,1974 ), one of the leaders ofSoviet partisan movement inUkraine and westernRussia during theGreat Patriotic War .Born near the city of
Izhevsk in Central Russia, Saburov joined theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union in 1933 andNKVD in 1938.Few months after the German invasion of USSR in the autumn of 1941, Saburov organized first guerrilla units in Bryansk, Oryol and Sumy regions occupied by the enemy. His partisan unit numbered around 1800 men and during the winter of 1941-42 effectively harassed German troops operating behind the enemy lines. On
May 18 ,1942 Saburov was awarded the titleHero of the Soviet Union as well asOrder of Lenin for personal heroism and his contribution to the Soviet war effort.At the end of 1942 Saburov moved his partisan unit into Ukraine and operated in central and western Ukraine. Together with
Sydir Kovpak he played a key role in the leadership of partisan movement in Ukraine.In 1944 Saburov was promoted to the rank of
major general .After the war he held high-ranking NKVD positions in Ukraine and in 1954 became one of the heads of the Soviet MVD.Member of the
Supreme Soviet of USSR between 1948 and 1958.Saburov was awarded
Order of the Red Banner ,Order of Suvorov ,Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky ,Order of the Patriotic War andOrder of the Red Star .Alexander Saburov died in April 15, 1974 and is buried on
Novodevichy Cemetery inMoscow .External links
*ru icon [http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1560 War Hero Aleksandr Saburov]
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