The FSB declassified archival documents on the activities of Soviet partisans in Crimea

The Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol has declassified a large set of archival documents on the activities of Soviet partisan detachments and underground organizations in the region during the Great Patriotic War. This was announced on April 10 in the press service of the department.

"According to historians, all declassified archival documents reflect the results of the painstaking and extensive work of security officials, internal affairs and the prosecutor's office to investigate the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices on the Crimean Peninsula," the regional FSB emphasized.

Thus, experts presented the testimony of Soviet military intelligence agent Ibrahim Aganin, who was infiltrated into the Nazi secret police. The archival materials provide information about a conspiracy in the Cossack unit in the village of Seitler (now Nizhnegorsky) in January 1944. At that time, 16 people were executed by the Germans for defecting to the side of the Soviet partisans. In addition, protocols of interrogations of Nazi translators from the Kherson region were found.

In addition, the republican directorate of the FSB told about the burning of the villages of Shah Murza and Bakotash by the Nazi invaders, as well as the shooting of the men who lived there in the forest in 1943. From the declassified materials, one can also learn about the fate of girls from the vicinity of Feodosia who joined the partisans: they returned home for warm clothes and were arrested and then shot by German punishers.

Earlier, on February 21, the FSB declassified and published archival documents attesting to the crimes of the Nazi German army against civilians in the Kursk region in 1943. Representatives of the department clarified that a total of six documents were declassified and published.