There, his focus was on the use of air-navigation equipment in military planes, and he graduated with distinction in 1941, qualifying as an aircraft technician and receiving the title of Sergeant.
It was deployed many times thereafter (to Vasylkiv, Brovary, Semypolky, and Boryspil), and with the front's approach was rebased close to the city of Yahotyn, in the Kiev Oblast.
In November 1941, Krivets was able to make it out and reach Pisky, where in the December of the same year there was created an anti-fascist underground organization to prepare for open, armed partisan warfare in the Nova Basan’ Raion (now Bobrovytsia).
By March 1942, the group completed its collection and organization of weapons, ammunition, messengers, and secret meeting places, and in the November of that year was given the name “the Shchors detachment”.
On July 15, 1942, the following report was delivered to the operational-rear commander of Army Group South: “The partisans are in Pisky, 10 kilometers northwest of Nova Basan’, in the Chernihiv Oblast.
Presumably, they have connections to Kohan’s motorized band[3], part of which is located beyond the operational-rear region under and north of Nova Basan’.” “Army Group Centre does not have the strength and means to destroy this band in joint effort with the forces of the operational-rear region.” “Kohan’s [3] motorized detachment, which carries out some of its actions in regions north of the Nova Basan’ settlement and outside Army Group South's operational zone, is delivering all-out attacks on the garrison command centers with the use of vehicles that they have, through persistent raids, seized from our rear units.” According to the commander of the partisan detachment formation in the Kiev Oblast, I. F. Cheburnov – the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) central committee’s authorized representative on the occupied territory – the Shchors detachment acted heroically throughout 1943, all the way up to its joining with the subdivisions of the Red Army in the September of that year.
[4] A significant portion of the partisans (approximately 200 fighters) received government awards for their courage and valor in the battle against the German fascist invaders.
In 1945, Krivets was a delegate to the first World Federation of Democratic Youth, held in London, where he was the flag bearer for the Ukrainian SSR during the opening ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall.
In 1978, the Moscow writer Arkadiy Yakovlevich Sahnin invited Krivets for a meeting, having introduced himself as a special correspondent of the newspaper Pravda.
The meeting took place in July in the Kiev hotel “Teatralnaya” (Russian: «Театральная»), where Sahnin informed that there were insistent demands from comrades in the CPSU central committee apparatus to have I. L. Dyachenko's (see above) image rehabilitated – namely, they wanted him declared as having been one of the members of the partisan underground.
In the end, a group of former partisans turned to the People's Court (Soviet Union) of Moscow's Sokolnicheskiy district – in accordance with the defendants’ place of residence – to take legal action against Sahnin and the editorial board of Literaturnaya Gazeta.
On September 15, 1991, the newspaper informed its readers, in its “Rights and Morals” (Russian: «Мораль и право») section, that what was presented in the articles of 1979 and 1980 did not match reality.
On August 29, the head of the secretariat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU), the chairman of the ZSU Presidium's Commission of Government Awards (Russian: Комиссии Президиума ВС Украины по государственным наградам), N. G. Homenko, handed to Krivets the Order of Lenin, the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, First Class, the Gold Star, the Hero of the Soviet Union certificate and booklet, and his booklet of awards.
In the memorial complex “The National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” (Russian: «Национальный музей истории Великой Отечественной войны 1941—1945 годов») in Kiev, there is an exhibition with a stand dedicated to “Alexander Yeliseyevich Krivets, Hero of the Soviet Union”.