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At the age of the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Alexei Botyan, the prototype of Major Vorthy Publication time: February 13 G. Photo: Mihenator on Thursday, February 13, the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Alexei Botyan died. A few days before his death, he celebrated his birthday. Alexey Botyan. A brief biography was born on February 10 in the village of Chertovichi of the Vilenskaya province of now the Volozhinsky district of the Minsk region of Belarus.

In March, his village went to Poland. He said that his parents were Belarusians. Since childhood, he spoke in Belarusian, Russian and Polish, later he mastered the Czech, Slovak, German languages. It was taught to German by his father, who worked as a joiner and who went to work in Germany and Argentina, his father also owned Spanish. At the end of the school, Alexei Botyan was drafted into the Polish army, which included the non-commissioned officer of the 3rd division of anti-aircraft artillery in the city of Vilna.

In September, by commanding the calculation of the anti -aircraft gun, he participated in the battles against the German invasion of Poland. Under Warsaw, his gun was shot down by three Junkers. When in the year the eastern regions of Poland occupied Soviet troops, became a citizen of the USSR, taught in elementary school. In November, as the commander of the intelligence and sabotage group, he was transferred beyond the front line.

Participated in the defense of Moscow. In the year he was sent to the deep rear of the enemy to the western regions of Ukraine and Belarus. He acted there both independently and as part of large partisan detachments. He was the deputy of the partisan former of the Hero of the Soviet Union V., under his direct leadership, an operation was carried out on the explosion of the German Gabits -Commissioner in the city of Ovruch of the Zhytomyr region of the Ukrainian SSR, when there was an inspection from Germany.

As a result of this operation, on September 9, 80 Nazi officers were destroyed. For this operation, Alexei Botyan was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but then did not receive a reward. In May, on the instructions of the Center, at the head of a group of 28 people, he made a transition to Poland, having the task of organizing the exploration and movement of the enemy in the area of ​​the city of Krakow.

Thanks to the good knowledge of the Polish language and the culture of the local population, as well as his organizational abilities, Alexei Botyan managed to organize interaction and joint military operations with such different political forces as part of the Kraiova Army, the Army of Lyudov and the peasant battalions. Under his leadership, an operation was carried out to capture together with the units of the Army of the Luda city of Ilja, during which the arrested Polish patriots were liberated from prison, a large number of weapons and equipment were captured.

At the end of the year, the fighters of the group were captured by Cartograph engineer Sigmund Ogarek, an ethnic Pole, mobilized in the Nazi army and served in the rear units of the Wehrmacht. Ogarek gave valuable testimonies about the explosive warehouse delivered to the Yagelonsky castle, which, according to one version, was supposed to be used to destroy the historical center of Krakow, the Rozhnovsky dam and bridges across the Dunets River.

Alexei Botyan managed to introduce into the castle under the guise of a loader of the Polish patriot, who established a ming of a slow action. In the midst of the offensive of the Red Army on the morning of January 18, the mine was put into operation and the enemy warehouse took off into the air. The next day, January 19, Krakow included the advanced parts of the 1st Ukrainian Front under the command of the Marshal of the Soviet Union I.

In the last months of the war, the group of Alexei Botyan acted in the rear of the enemy in the occupied territory of Czechoslovakia. From the year, the operational composition of the 1st Directorate was served by foreign intelligence of the People's Commissariat of State Security of the USSR.

In the year he was abandoned in Czechoslovakia under the guise of a worker-gray worker, worked as a locksmith at a factory in the city of Zhatets of the Sudeten region, he studied at the Higher Industrial Motor-Building School. Having passed naturalization, he was transferred to the uranium mines to the Yakhimov. In the future, he repeatedly traveled on foreign business trips to various European countries to complete tasks, information about which is still classified.

He was the prototype of the protagonist of the novel by Julian Semenov "Major Vorthar", according to which, in the year, director Evgeny Tashkov, a three -part film was shot. He was involved in the advice of employees of the Special Purpose Group "Vympel". In the year, in the rank of colonel, he was fired by age. He lived in Moscow. He died on February 13th.