Danchenkov Fedor Semyonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Colonel Fedor Semyonovich Danchenkov was born on November 6, 1914 in the village of Zhukovo, Orel province (now Dubrovsky district, Bryansk region). In addition to him, the family had three younger brothers. Ancestors Danchenkova was from the don Cossacks. In 1934, Fedor entered the Kiev artillery military school. After graduation, he was sent to serve in the small Ukrainian town of Fastov. There Lieutenant Danchenkov met a girl Tamara with the unusual surname Senator. She was Polish and became his lifelong friend. Fyodor Danchenkov received his baptism of fire in 1940 during the Soviet-Finnish war. For his courage and heroism, he was awarded the medal "for bravery". The Great Patriotic war began. Heavy bloody battles, huge losses, retreat… In September 1941, Fedor Danchenkov was surrounded. Dirty, overgrown, wounded in the thigh he arrived in German-occupied Dubrovka, where lived his cousin Michael Bravely. Gradually, Danchenkov began to create a partisan detachment, recruit cadres to fight in the deep underground, send his people to work in the local authorities created by the Nazis (village elders, district Council, police). In the spring of 1942, Danchenkov took his detachment to the Bocharovsky forest, to the base already established there by the commander of another partisan detachment, Nikolai Ustinovich Borodynkin. In April, the first Association of several small detachments took place in a large one, which took the name of the legendary civil war hero Chapaev. Captain F. S. Danchenkov became the commander of the Chapaev United partisan detachment. In October 1942, by order of the commander-in-Chief of the partisan movement K. E. Voroshilov, the partisan brigades of the Kletnyansky forest were created. Captain F. S. Danchenkov was appointed commander of the First Kletnyansky partisan brigade, and political Commissar I. K. Gaidukov became Commissar. By the fall of 1943, the brigade had already United more than 3 thousand partisans. Fedor Danchenkov's mother and younger brother, Mikhail, fought in the brigade. The partisan movement provided significant assistance to the red army in expelling the enemy. After the liberation of the Bryansk region, brigade commander Danchenkov with most of his forest Avengers went to the front and as part of the 324th upper Dnepr red banner rifle division of the 50th army and smashed the enemy to complete victory. After the war, F. S. Danchenkov served in the Group of Soviet troops in the GDR. Despite the workload, it maintained close liaison with the guerrillas-"dancetime" and was always ready to come to their aid. After retiring, Danchenkov lived in Kiev. Until recently, he was actively working on Patriotic education of young people. In his spare time, Fyodor Semyonovich liked to work and relax in the country. He died on May 8, 1989, just one day short of another great Victory Day. In Dubrovka, the memory of the legendary brigade commander F. S. Danchenkov and I. K. Gaidukov is revered. They were the first in the history of the village to be awarded the title of honorary citizens of Dubrovka. The monument, which was erected on a mass grave in the partisan capital - the village of Bochary, has a memorial plaque dedicated to the brigade commander. It is fortified in the place where the earth from his Kiev grave is buried. One of the streets of Dubrovka is named after brigade commander Danchenkov.