During the Great Patriotic War, according to reports, there were about 1 million Soviet partisans. However, of these, only 249 people became Heroes of the Soviet Union, among whom Vladimir Molodtsov was not lost.
Education and career
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Molodtsov was born on July 5, 1911 in the Tambov province, and more precisely in a village called Sasovo. He comes from a simple family. Volodya's father was a railwayman, but his mother's occupation is unknown. It is known that in 1918 it was decided to give young Volodya to the railway school, which he graduated 4 years later. At the end of primary school, the whole family decided to move to the suburbs of Moscow, the village of Prozorovka (currently called Kratovo). Here, in a new place, Vladimir continued to receive education at the 7-year-old school.
He became a member of the Komsomol at the age of 15, in 1926. Then there was a study at a school in the city of Ramenskoye (which is also in the Moscow Region), and Vladimir finished 10th grade already at the capital's railway school.
From 18 years old, working days began - first as a laborer, and then as an assistant locksmith.
After some time, he is waiting for work at a mine in the city of Bobrik-Donskoy.
In just two years, he managed to become an assistant director of the same mine. In 1934, as a member of the Communist Party, he went to study at the Central School of the People’s Commissariat, and a year later he became an assistant detective in the same People’s Commissariat.
At the end of 1937 he finally moved to live in the capital.
Studying at the school of the People’s Commissariat, in essence, predetermined the fate of Vladimir Alexandrovich - he was waiting for the career of a civil servant.
Participation in the Great Patriotic War. Partisan detachment
In the spring of 1941, Vladimir was appointed head of one of the foreign intelligence departments. Since the war began, a quiet life has ceased to be such. The confrontation that began between Hitler Germany confused all the cards of Molodtsov’s peaceful family life. He had to evacuate his wife with three children, and he himself went on special assignment from the command. So he ended up in Odessa under the name of Pavel Badayev with the aim of organizing sabotage activities in his native land captured by the enemy.
Since October 1941, on the territory of the glorious city of Odessa, several attacks of the partisan detachment against the Romanian invaders were carried out. In particular, the enemy commandant’s office was blown up (hundreds of military men were defeated), the administrative luxury echelon was blown up (more than 250 people from the enemy camp were killed).
Despite the sometimes unbearable conditions of being in the catacombs of occupied Odessa, a partisan detachment under the strict guidance of Molodtsov violated the enemy’s telephone lines, mined railways and roads, and reconnoitered the port. In addition, thanks to information transmitted to the high command from the partisan detachment, Soviet air forces inflicted targeted attacks on the den of the enemy.
80 brave Soviet people against 16 thousand opponents. The catacombs in which the partisans were located, the enemy troops repeatedly tried to barricade themselves, setting off explosions and launching poisonous gases. But the detachment continued the operation called "Fort."
However, already in the spring of 1942 Molodtsov and his associates were detained and arrested - the reason for this was the betrayal of the homeland of one of the partisans. Caught and captured, they were tortured by the secret Romanian police. But, despite this, the enemy failed to find out any information.
Molodtsov’s first words were made after he was read the death sentence. The invaders asked him to ask for a pardon, to which he said: "We do not ask for pardon from our enemies on our land!"
The death sentence against Vladimir Molodtsov was put into effect in Odessa in July 1942.
Personal life of Vladimir Molodtsov
The personal life of Vladimir Alexandrovich is either covered in a veil of secrets in connection with the specifics of his work, or simply information about her is lost. It is only known for certain that he had a full-fledged family - a wife and three children.
