Peter Masherov - veteran of the Great Patriotic War _x000D_ Born on January 31 [February 13], 1918 in the village of Shirki, Sennensky District, Mogilev Region, in a poor peasant family of Masherov Miron and Darya with many children. Peter graduated from Gribovskiy Elementary School with a certificate of honor. In 1934 in the village of Dvorishche, Rossonskiy District, he graduated from secondary school. After graduation from the Vitebsk Pedagogical School. In 1939, he graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics of the S. M. Kirov Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute._x000D_ From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered to the Red Army, was a member of a fighter battalion. In August 1941, he was surrounded and captured near Nevel, but managed to escape. A few days later, he reached Rosson, where his mother stayed._x000D_ In August 1941, he created and headed the Komsomol youth underground resistance in Rosson. From December 1941 to March 1942, he worked as an accountant for the Rosson collective farm and as a schoolteacher. At the same time, he was engaged in organizing the Komsomol underground resistance and partisan movement in the Rossonskiy District._x000D_ From April 1942 - commander of the N. Shchors Partisan Detachment, which operated in the Rossonskiy, Drissenskiy, Osveyskiy Districts of Belarus and on the territory of neighboring regions of Russia and Latvia. In the first days, the detachment gathered men who agreed to fight in the surrounding villages, pretending to arrest them , so they hoped to avoid punishment for their relatives. In the first battle, Masherov was wounded, and for some time he hid in the Rosson, in the apartment of a former student, despite the objections of other partisans. From July 1942 — candidate, from the summer of 1943 - member of the CPSU (b). He was wounded twice._x000D_ The first organizer of the partisan movement in the Rossonskiy District of the Vitebsk Region, which later grew into a nationwide uprising and created a huge partisan region of 10 thousand square kilometers, completely throwing off the German yoke and restoring Soviet power. In 1944, he was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union._x000D_ Peter Masherov died on October 4, 1980 in a car accident.