The legendary scout Alexey Botyan passed away in the 104th year

The oldest and legendary scout, Hero of Russia Alexei Botyan, who in 1945 led the operation to save from the destruction of the Polish city of Krakow, died in his 104th year of life. This was reported by the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia.

Alexei Nikolaevich Botyan died

- said the head of the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia Sergey Ivanov.

February 10 this year, Alexei Nikolayevich Botyan turned 103 years old. He managed to give an interview to the TASS news agency, in which he talked about the operation carried out in January 1945, during which his sabotage group managed to frustrate the Nazis' plans for the complete destruction of the Polish city of Krakow.

Alexey Nikolaevich Botyan was born in 1917 in the village of Chertovichi, Oshmyany district, Vilna province of the Russian Empire, which later became part of Poland. He served in the Polish army, in 1939 he participated in battles with the Nazis who attacked Poland. After obtaining citizenship, the USSR learned to be a teacher and worked as the head of an elementary school.

In May 1941 he was sent to study at the Higher School of the NKGB of the USSR in Moscow. With the beginning of World War II, he was included in the Special Group under the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs (later the 2nd Division of the NKVD), formed on the basis of the First (Reconnaissance) Directorate of the NKGB - the NKVD. Participated in the defense of Moscow, with the partisans fought in the territory of Ukraine, Belarus, and Eastern Europe.

After the war, for a long time he carried out the tasks of the Motherland abroad and on the territory of the Soviet Union.

The title of Hero of Russia, retired colonel Alexei Botyan for the operation to save Krakow was awarded in 2007 by presidential decree.

"Military Review" expresses condolences to the relatives and friends of Aleksei Nikolaevich.

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[DMB 75]

Alexei Nikolaevich Botyan died

The era is leaving with such People ... The kingdom of heaven is to you, Worthy Man ... I am sincerely sorry ...

[Thrall]

Land in peace to you, "Major Whirlwind"!

[Mountain shooter]

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Land in peace to you, "Major Whirlwind"!

Steel people ... The ERA is leaving!
Rest in peace.

[Leshy1975]

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Land in peace to you, "Major Whirlwind"!

Legendary person. Very, very sorry. One of the best examples of what it means to be a patriot of a country, and not to seem. I join all the statements of sorrow in connection with the death of this Man.

[aszzz888]

Only recently it was shown on TV !!! ..... Sleep well, Hero!

[bessmertniy]

Does Poland remember him !? Is it grateful !? And we - let's remember in Russian!

[Chervonny]

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Does Poland remember him !? Is it grateful !?

Probably in Poland there is still someone who remembers and thanks the legendary scout, but only they are becoming less and less.
And we will remember our hero.
Remember the scout hero.

[Pete mitchell]

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Does Poland remember him !? Is it grateful

Let us hope that not everyone there is poor-natured.
And we will remember and tell the children. The era .., Mankind is gone ...

[knn54]

During a visit to Poland in 2005 by V.V. Putin, one of the journalists had a detailed plan of the mined city. She was very surprised when she found out that there is not a single evidence of the FULL mining of the city. ” And if there is no evidence of mining, there is no cable that the Major Whirlwind blew up. So the whole story is a lie.
Here are just a CONFIRMED order of SS Obergruppenführer Friedrich Krueger to mine Krakov’s strategic targets and ignore it.

[Invoce]

Died a legendary man who lived a decent life. All words from us will seem to be just words. Nevertheless, I express my sympathy to my relatives and friends, and I am proud that Alexey Botyan is a Soviet man and his life is an example of serving the Motherland! A man of an era ... We grieve with family together!

[Andrey the Magnificent]

Eternal memory to the hero.

[tihonmarine]

One of a dozen of the great Soviet intelligence agents. I remember his performance on his 99th birthday. "They invited me to the shooting range, and I knocked out ten out of ten from my Parabellum, which was with me from the war." Eternal memory to the Hero. "If we could make nails out of these people, there would be no stronger nails in the world."

[Million]

The Poles would be reminded of this man.

[Egoza]

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The Poles would be reminded of this man.

I am afraid that the Poles, joyfully rubbing their pens, crossed out his name from the list of Honorary Residents of Krakow. There was no such thing. Nobody saved anything! But WE WILL REMEMBER AND HIS AND THE WHOLE VOICE GROUP !!!!

[Blue fox]

A.N. Botyan was born on February 10, 1917 in the village of Chertovichi, Volozhinsky volost, Oshmyany district, Vilna province (now the territory is part of the Volga Volga village council of the Volozhinsky district of the Minsk region of the Republic of Belarus) in a peasant family. Byelorussian. He lived with his family in his native village, which since 1921 turned out to be in Poland, graduated from high school.

In 1939 he was drafted into the Polish army, served in the units of anti-aircraft artillery in Vilna, rose to the rank of non-commissioned officer. He took part in the battles against Nazi troops in September 1939. According to some reports, shot down three German aircraft as the commander of the calculation of anti-aircraft guns. After the occupation of Poland with a military unit, he went out to meet the units of the Red Army and surrendered. He returned to his native village, graduated from teacher training courses and worked as a teacher in elementary school, received Soviet citizenship.

In May 1940 he was sent to serve in the bodies of the NKVD of the USSR and enrolled in an intelligence school. In July 1941 he was enlisted in the Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade for Special Purpose, subordinate to the 4th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR (head of the department - P.A. Sudoplatov).
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[anjey]

This is a Hero with a capital letter and a Man who exchanged a whole century and even exceeded it, it is a pity that he did not live to see the Anniversary on May 9th ..... Such people did Our History.

[likana]

Great Man, bowing my head ...

[Aaron Zawi]

Everlasting memory.

[anjey]

After the occupation of Poland with a military unit, he went out to meet the units of the Red Army and surrendered. He returned to his native village, graduated from teacher training courses and worked as a teacher in elementary school, received Soviet citizenship.

An ambiguous act, but justified for him. This suggests that in Poland at that time there were contradictions, both national and class, and many Poles were glad to join the USSR.

[Sergej1972]

He is Belarusian by nationality.

[anjey]

I know that Poland was not united and many, of course, the proletarians and the poor, sympathized with the USSR, there were Polish communists. When Budyonny approached Lvov in 1920, the Lviv communists and workers met with him and promised support if he will storm the city, pshek pshek strife.

[Lamata]

Earth rest in peace and eternal memory !!!

[kind]

For the salvation of Krakow alone, the Poles should be grateful to the Russian soldier, and they destroy the monuments of the liberators ...
Our dear Alexei Nikolaevich, we remember your feat and pass this memory on to our descendants. Eternal memory to you !!!

[Lamata]

Darkly, forgot, dog krev, they are a word of gratitude. Zelia was called to Auschwitz, and he, the female dog, trampled and betrayed the memory of his grandfather.

[Altai72]

I think the Poles, Czechs and Slovaks should be grateful to this man until the end of his days.

[Azazelo]

-What's suspicious, Sherlock?
-Surprise, Watson, suddenness ....

[Altai72]

In 1947, he was abandoned in Czechoslovakia under the guise of a Czech worker, worked as a mechanic at a factory in the town of атatec in the Sudetenland, and studied at the Higher Industrial Engine Building School there. After naturalization, transferred to the uranium mines in Jáchymov. In the future, he repeatedly went on business trips to various European countries to perform complex and responsible tasks, information about which has been kept secret until now.

[Russia]

Not health, but a fortress embody. It is a pity that Victory did not live to see the anniversary. Eternal memory to a veteran, a legend

[Altai72]

Eternal memory "Major Whirlwind"!
Perhaps the only branch without cons.

[cherkas.oe]

The Kingdom of Heaven, glory and eternal memory from us and our descendants - to the Defender of the Motherland, Alexei Nikolaevich ..

[K-50]

The legendary scout Alexey Botyan passed away in the 104th year

Earth rest in peace Hero !!!
Condolences to relatives and friends!

[Tank jacket]

Honor and Glory to the Hero of Russia !!! Condolences to family and friends!
PS
Russia needs to increase the status of a teacher.

[Ros 56]

Here is life, only congratulated on the 103rd anniversary, and on you. The kingdom to him is heavenly and eternal memory to the warrior. Condolences to relatives and friends.

[Lamata]

Wow, Channel 1 reported the first news in the news block and his death.

[AK1972]

The kingdom of heaven and the Eternal memory of the hero. I join the condolences of the forum users. A legend-man passed away. We probably will never know about all his exploits and completed tasks.

[senima56]

"Legendary person"! The kingdom of heaven to him!