«Victims of War»

The events of the Great Patriotic War left their mark on every Belarusian family. Hardships and hardships under German occupation, valiant work in the rear, injuries and death in the rear, partisan detachments and at the front are an integral part of every family story.

Both ordinary workers and leaders at various levels fought alongside the Nazi invaders.

The Mogilev Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies did not stand aside either.

Among the deputies elected on December 24, 1939, every fifth died or went missing during the war. Among them are the chairman and secretary of the organizing committee of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the BSSR for the Mogilev region Ivan Fedoseevich Terekhov and Yakov Mikhailovich Kagan, the chairman of the regional plan Pavel Ivanovich Mizarov, the chairman of the Mogilev regional court Abram Efimovich Shubik, the chairman of the Mogilev City Council of Workers’ Deputies Donya Ilyich Astrov and others.

As part of this virtual exhibition, the institution «State Archive of the Mogilev Region» (hereinafter referred to as GAMOg) presents documents that are dedicated to the deputies of the Mogilev Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies of the first convocation who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, in partisan detachments and the underground, as well as perpetuating their memory.

1. List of deputies of the Mogilev Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies of the first convocation (newspaper «Kamunar Magileushchyny», 1939, December 30, No.298).

2. Letter from the executive committee of the Krichevsky City Council of Working People’s Deputies dated August 28, 1967 about the fate of deputy M.N. Karpekin (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l. 70).

3. Letter from the executive committee of the Osipovichi City Council of Working People’s Deputies dated August 29, 1967 about the fate of deputy M.I. Pobol (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l. 50).

4. Letter from the executive committee of the Bobruisk District Council of Working People’s Deputies dated August 30, 1967 about the fate of deputies E.M. Lemeshonok, I.V. Litvinko and V.T. Prokopchik (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l 53-54).

5. Letter from the Deputy Director of the Institute of Party History under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus Stepan Zakharovich Pochanin dated October 11, 1967 about the fate of deputies N.G. Kozhemyakin and V.T. Prokopchik (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l . 13).

6. Letter from the executive committee of the Bobruisk City Council of Working People’s Deputies dated October 11, 1967 about the fate of deputy F.I. Sokolov (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l. 43-44).

7. Letter from the deputy head of the main personnel department of the USSR Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Ivan Kuzovkov, dated November 14, 1967, about the fate of deputy P.I. Mizarov (GAMOg, f. 7, op. 5, d. 1315, l. 22).

8. Decision of the executive committee of the Mogilev Regional Council of Working People’s Deputies of October 27, 1967 No.385 «On perpetuating the memory of deputies of the Mogilev Regional Council of Working People’s Deputies of the first convocation who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, in partisan detachments and the underground» (GAMOg, f. 7, op 5, d. 1257, l.32-33).