FSB declassified death certificates of pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov in Crimea

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Directorate of the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol declassified archival materials on the execution of pioneer hero Vitya Korobkov and his father, who were arrested and shot by the Nazis in Crimea in 1944. This was announced on April 14 by the press service of the department.

It is clarified that the department has declassified unique archival documents about the death of the legendary pioneer hero, his family, as well as other members of the Crimean partisan detachments that opposed the Nazis, previously unknown to the general public.

Despite the fact that Korobkov is considered one of the pioneer heroes, few details about his death are known. In February 1944, the boy and his father were arrested in Feodosia, where they arrived on the instructions of a partisan detachment.

According to the testimony of Soviet intelligence officer Ibrahim Aganin, who worked for the German counterintelligence agency, the investigator and translators brutally beat the arrested, seeking information from them about partisan activities.

"Investigator Buld shouted at the boy that he did not believe him, and started beating him in front of me. He beat him with his good fists, and with each blow the boy hit the wall with force. In front of me, the boy was hit several times with a forged German boot and a lamp interpreter," the scout's testimony says.

Aganin noted that the beatings of Vitya and his father continued for three to four days, until the father promised to tell everything for the sake of his son's salvation. However, as the FSB emphasized, neither he nor his son betrayed their comrades. Both were executed: father — at the end of February, Vitya — on March 9, 1944.

Earlier, on April 10, the FSB declassified archival documents about the activities of Soviet partisans in Crimea. In addition, the republican directorate of the FSB told about the burning of the villages of Shah Murza and Bakotash by the invaders, as well as the shooting of the men who lived there in the forest in 1943.