Young Soviet partisan scout Anatoly Alexandrovich Gorokhovsky (born in 1927), scout, miner in a partisan formation under the command of M.I.Naumov.
Before joining the partisans, the brothers from Kiev Vadim (1926) and Tolya Gorokhovsky in the Nazi-occupied Russian city procured weapons for the underground fighters. In the partisan detachment of Yakov Methodievich Kuznets, who later entered the partisan unit under the command of M.I. Naumov, the brothers become scouts and miners.
After the liberation of Kiev, Anatoly Gorokhovsky, following Vadim, sought to be included in the reconnaissance and sabotage division of the Red Army, threw himself into the rear of the enemy, and as part of the Army in the field reached Berlin.
After the war, brothers Vadim and Tolya Gorokhovsky worked as foundry workers at the Kiev Arsenal plant named after V.I. Lenin.
Sources of information about Tolya Gorokhovsky photo:
1.pamyat-naroda.ru
- Heroes nearby: a story from the collection Children-heroes / comp. I.K. Goncharenko, N.B. Makhlin. – 2nd ed. – K .: Rad.shk., 1985
- memory-book.ua
Location: USSR
Photo time: 1943
Photo by: Yakov Davidzon