Denisenko Ilya Nikitovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Ilya Nikitovich Denisenko was born in 1900 in a family with four other brothers. When the First world war began, his brothers went to the front. Two of them died, and two returned to their native Siberian village and died some time later. Ilya Nikitovich, the youngest of all the brothers, was almost mobilized in February 1919. But fate decreed otherwise. He, along with recruits led by Danil Opanovich, a resident of a neighboring village, met the Kolchak soldiers in battle. Word of the partisans quickly spread through the villages. The squad grew rapidly. By spring, it had already numbered 200 people's Avengers. A year later, they joined forces with shchetinkin's partisan detachment, which operated near Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Denisenko met the end of the war in Vladivostok. Ilya N. has not joined the Komsomol. During the partisan struggle, the defeat of Kolchak, the expulsion of the Japanese interventionists, there was no time to think about it, and then the age was not the same. But he was in the ranks of the Bolsheviks from the age of eighteen. In 1938, Ilya Nikitovich graduated from a military school, then was demobilized, and then returned to his native village. After the creation of the collective farm, he was elected Chairman. On August 16, 1941, he went to the front. He was a platoon commander. First he commanded a platoon of bombers, and then a group of flamethrowers. Ilya Nikitovich took part in the battles on the Leningrad front for the liberation of the cities of Pskov, Luga and Tikhvin, for which he was awarded three medals: "For the defense of Leningrad", "for military merit","for bravery". He was wounded twice. Due to a severe concussion that he received during the liberation of Pskov in January 1944, he went home. For eight years he worked as the head of a dairy farm in the village of Pchelniki. For this work, he was awarded the order of the Badge of honor. When Ilya Nikitovich was 68 years old, he headed the Central farm of the Pobeda collective farm. Ilya Nikitovich had to go through a lot during his difficult life, but he never gave up. He performed his civic duty with dignity, for which he deserves honor and respect.