Draft:Sergey Levashov

Sergey Mikhailovich Levashov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Левашов) was Soviet partisan of the Great Patriotic War and member of the underground anti-fascist organization "Young Guard".

Before the war
Sergey Levashov was born on December 16, 1924 at the station Kuteynikovo Stalin Oblast. . The mother of Sergey — Levashova Lydia Danilovna, in the family there were four children: Sergey and three sisters.

In the fall of 1930 the family moved to Krasnodonsky district. In 1931 Sergey began to attend the preparatory class of secondary school № 1 named after A. M. Gorky. Then he studied in village schools. From the first to the tenth grade was an excellent one. In 1939, the Komsomol organization of secondary school № 29 village of mine № 12 received Sergey Levashov in the ranks of Komsomol.

During the war
In april 1942 he, as one of the active Komsomol people, is sent to the school of training of guerillas and underground fighters in Voroshilovgrad. After completing the theoretical course, the Levashov brothers, as part of a group of radio operators, successfully underwent parachute training, and in August they were thrown into the rear of the enemy to carry out subversive tasks and collect intelligence about the enemy in the northern part of Donbas. The group got into the environment, suffered damage, the survivors went away from the persecution of the caravan alone.

Since September 1942 he was in the occupied Krasnodon, where he joined the «Young Guard». In the conditions of the underground he mounted a radio receiver on which he received reports Sovinformburo.

Actively participated in a number of combat operations of underground operators. He supplied the organization with explosives. He was associated with an underground communist N. P. Barakov.

On January 5, 1943 Sergey was arrested on January 15 and mutilated dropped in mine pit № 5

He was buried in a mass grave of heroes in the center of Krasnodon.