The State Archives of the Grodno Region has established a personal collection of Nikolai Grebenkin, a partisan and participant in the Great Patriotic War

On the eve of Victory Day, employees of the State Archives of the Grodno Region established a personal collection of Nikolai Ivanovich Grebenkin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. From May 1942 to July 1944, Nikolai Grebenkin served as a partisan in the G.I.Kotovsky Detachment of the F.E.Dzerzhinsky Brigade, serving as a squad commander, reconnaissance and sabotage group commander, and deputy detachment commissar. In July 1944, he was appointed Second Secretary of the Lyubcha District Komsomol Committee. In the postwar years, he served as director of the Mikashevichi and Bytensky Orphanages in the Brest Region and director of the Omnevichi Secondary School in the Novogrudok District.

Personal documents of Nikolai Ivanovich Grebenkin were donated to the archive by his son, Nikolai Nikolaevich Grebenkin, who carefully preserved them in the family archive for many years. These documents include Nikolai Grebenkin’s biography and personal photographs, manuscripts of diaries and memoirs, and partisan essays. Of particular interest are documents on the activities of the G.I.Kotovsky Partisan Detachment: photographs of partisans, a list of commanders and enlisted personnel, a list of the detachment’s fallen partisans, and memoirs of the detachment’s combat history. These documents possess significant informational potential and are a valuable source for studying the partisan movement in the Grodno region.

1. Employees of the State Archives of the Grodno Region with Nikolai Nikolaevich Grebenkin

2. Personal documents of partisan Nikolai Ivanovich Grebenkin