Oleksiy Fedorov

Oleksiy Fedorovych Fedorov (Ukrainian: Олексій Федорович Федоров, Russian: Алексей Фёдорович Фёдоров, Aleksey Fyodorovich Fyodorov; 30 March 1901 – 9 September 1989), was one of the leaders of Soviet partisan movement during World War II.

After the Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union, Fedorov became a prominent organizer of the underground resistance in occupied Ukraine.

Since September 1941 worked as the first secretary of the Chernigov partisan unit which by March 1942 had sixteen engagements with the enemy and killed over a thousand German troops.

And from March 1943 also Volyn underground regional party committees, at the same time commander of the Chernigov-Volyn partisan unit of the NKVD of the USSR.

[2] Under his leadership partisan detachments turned into a compound that carried out important combat operations to destroy enemy manpower and equipment.

During the legendary Kovel railway hub operation in the autumn of 1943 and the following winter, the partisans of Fedorov liquidated over 500 German supply trains full of ammunition, fuel, military equipment and army personnel.

After the liberation of Ukraine, Oleksiy Fedorov headed Communist party committees in several Ukrainian regions including Kherson (1944–1949) Izmail (1950–1952) and Zhytomyr (1952–1957) oblasts.

Busts of Alexei Fyodorov in Dnipropetrovsk in 2015