Biography of Larisa Michenko

Larisa Dorofeevna Michenko Larisa Michenko - A brief biography of the future partisan was born on November 4 in Lakhta - a suburbs of Leningrad in a working family. When the Soviet-Finnish war began, her father Dorofei Ilyich, who worked as a locksmith at the Red Dawn factory, was mobilized and did not return from the front. On Sunday June 22, when the battles of the Great Patriotic War were already unfolding, she and her grandmother left for a summer vacation to visit her uncle in the village of Pechenevo, Poloshkinsky district of the Kalinin region, today is the Pskov region.

Two months later, the Wehrmacht troops entered the village, and her uncle became the headman of the village. Since there was no way to return to the besieged Leningrad, Larisa and his grandmother remained to live in Pechevo. In the spring of the year, one of the Larina girlfriends Raisa turned sixteen years old, and she came to appear at the assembly point for sending for work in Germany.

To avoid this fate, Raisa, Larisa Michenko and another girl Frosya went into the forest to the partisans. Thus began the combat path of Larisa in the 6th Kalinin brigade under the command of Major Ryndin. At first they were reluctant to accept them, because the leadership would like to see in his detachment trained men, not teenage girls, but soon began to trust them with combat missions.

Since Larisa, like her fighting friends,, by virtue of her age, could, without arousing suspicions from the Germans, to get close to military facilities, she served in the detachment as a scout. Thanks to the data she had obtained in the village of Orekhovo, partisans, knowing the location of the fire points and the time of rotation of the sentries, were able to hide cattle from the Germans, requisitioned by the population for the needs of the Wehrmacht.

In the village of Chernetsovo, hiring a nanny to care for a small child, Larisa collected detailed information about the German garrison stationed there, and a few days later the partisans raid the village. Also, with large clusters of the people during church holidays, it distributed Soviet campaign leaflets. The feat of the partisan of Larisa Michenko at the end of the summer Mikheenko was transferred to another partisan detachment and took part in the "rail war", performing all the same functions of the scout.

During one of the operations, on the explosion of the railway bridge over the Drissa River on the Polotsk -Nevel line, risking life, Larisa, unnoticed by the sentries, personally set fire to the fire cord. For this sortie, the commander of the partisan brigade Akhremenkov, where she was listed, Larisa was presented to the government award, but did not manage to get it. In early November, she, along with two fighters, entered the village of Ignatovo as a coherent for meeting with partisans from another detachment.

The meeting was supposed to take place in a reliable person who repeatedly helped partisans. But one of the local proemance residents passed their partisan turnout. The house in which they were was surrounded by a detachment of the Vlasovites, both fighters died in an unequal battle, and Larisa was captured. After the war ended, Larisa Michenko was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War” of the 1st degree.

In the year, the story of Nadezhda Nadezhdina “Partisan Lara”, telling about her life and feat.

For her reasons at the Lenfilm studio Nikolai Lebedev, the feature film “The Far Summer” was shot in the year. In honor of her, streets in several cities of Russia are named.