Yakov Batyuk

[1] In early childhood, as a result of an accident, he completely lost his sight, but after graduating from high school, he entered the law faculty of Kyiv University.

Taking orders for horse harness from the occupation authorities, the underground workers impregnated the finished rope products with a special chemical solution prepared by Batyuk.

[3] The authorities sought to prevent further sabotage by attaching the harness manufacturing operation to other enterprises, so Batyuk organized a workers' protest, but was removed from his post.

[1] After learning about the existence of a partisan detachment in the forest near Nizhyn, in March 1942 Batyuk met with its commander, secretary of the Nosovsky underground district committee of the party Stratilat.

[citation needed] The Gestapo sought out the Nizhyn resistance, and on August 25, 1943, Batyuk and most of the members of the Komsomol youth organization under his leadership were arrested.