During the Great Patriotic War, according to available data, there were about 1 million Soviet partisans. However, only 249 of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union, among whom Vladimir Molodtsov was not lost either.
Education and career
Vladimir Alexandrovich Molodtsov was born on July 5, 1911 in the Tambov province, or rather in a village called Sasovo. He comes from a simple family. Volodya's father was a railroad worker, but his mother's occupation is unknown. It is known that in 1918 it was decided to send young Volodya to a railway school, which he graduated after 4 years. At the end of primary school, the whole family decided to move to the Moscow region, the village of Prozorovka (currently called Kratovo). Here, in a new place, Vladimir continued his education at a 7-year school.
He became a member of the Komsomol at the age of 15, in 1926. Then he studied at the school in the city of Ramenskoye (which is also in the Moscow region), and Vladimir finished the 10th grade already at the capital's railway school.
From the age of 18, working days began - first as a laborer, and then as an assistant locksmith.
After some time, he will work at a mine in the town of Bobrik-Donskoy.
In just two years he managed to become an assistant director of that very mine. In 1934, being a member of the Communist Party, he left to study at the Central School of the People's Commissariat, and a year later he became an assistant to the operative in the same People's Commissariat.
At the end of 1937 he finally moved to live in the capital.
Studying at the school of the People's Commissariat, in essence, predetermined the fate of Vladimir Alexandrovich - he was waiting for the career of a civil servant.
Participation in the Great Patriotic War. Partisan detachment
In the spring of 1941, Vladimir was appointed head of one of the foreign intelligence departments. Since the beginning of the war, a quiet life has ceased to be such. The outbreak of confrontation between Hitler's Germany confused all the maps of Molodtsov's peaceful family life. He had to evacuate his wife and three children, and he himself went on a special assignment from the command. So he ended up in Odessa under the name of Pavel Badayev with the aim of organizing sabotage activities in his native land, captured by the enemy.
Since October 1941, on the territory of the glorious city of Odessa, several strikes by a partisan detachment against the Romanian occupiers have been carried out. In particular, the enemy commandant's office was blown up (hundreds of soldiers were defeated), the administrative luxury echelon was undermined (more than 250 people from the enemy camp were killed).
Despite the sometimes unbearable conditions of being in the catacombs of occupied Odessa, a detachment of partisans under the strict leadership of Molodtsov violated the enemy's telephone lines, mined railways and highways, and conducted reconnaissance in the port. In addition, thanks to the information transmitted to the main command from the partisan detachment, the Soviet air forces delivered pinpoint strikes against the enemy's lair.
80 gallant Soviet people against 16 thousand opponents. The catacombs, in which the partisans were located, the enemy troops repeatedly tried to barricade, setting up explosions and launching poisonous gases. But the detachment continued the operation called "Fort".
However, in the spring of 1942, Molodtsov and his contacts were detained and arrested - the reason for this was the treason of one of the partisans. Caught and captured, they were tortured by the Romanian secret police. But, despite this, the enemy failed to find out any information.
The first words of Molodtsov sounded after the death sentence was read to him. The invaders offered him to ask for pardon, to which he said: "We on our land do not ask the enemies for pardon!"
The death sentence against Vladimir Molodtsov was enacted in Odessa in July 1942.
Personal life of Vladimir Molodtsov
The personal life of Vladimir Alexandrovich is either covered with a veil of secrets in connection with the specifics of his work, or simply information about it has been lost. It is only known for certain that he had a full-fledged family - a wife and three children.
Awards and memory
In the arsenal of Vladimir Molodtsov there are a number of awards, including the medals "Partisan of the Patriotic War" (1st degree) and "For the defense of Odessa", the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin.
Do not forget that he was a loving husband and father - all this is also a kind of reward for the qualities that he possessed.
The memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union lives on to this day. In a number of cities, streets are named in his honor - these are Moscow and Ryazan, as well as Donskoy, Odessa and Tula. In the village of Kratovo (where Molodtsov spent his childhood) there is a street named after him.
Memorial plaques were installed in Moscow and Donskoy, in Odessa - a whole cenotaph, a dry cargo ship of the same name, a monument in Ryazan - and all this, of course, in honor of Vladimir Molodtsov.
By the way, Vladimir Molodtsov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in November 1944. Unfortunately, he did not have time to find out about it. The title was awarded posthumously.
