Ivan Turkenich
Soviet partisan
Ivan Vasilyevich Turkenich (15 January 1920 – 14 August 1944) was a Soviet partisan, one of the leaders of the underground anti-Nazi organization Young Guard, which operated in Krasnodon district during World War II between 1941 and 1944.
Biography
Turkenich was born on 15 January 1920, in Novyi Liman, Voronezh Oblast in a family of Ukrainian ethnicity. His father was a miner. After graduation from the 7th grade, he was matriculated to Voroshilov pedagogical institute. In March 1938, he became a member of the Komsomol. In 1938, Turkenich studied in a Sevastopol railroad trade school. In 1940, he began his studies in an anti-aircraft artillery military academy.
In June 1941, Turkenich graduated from the academy and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Red Army. From May to June 1942, he was a deputy executive officer in the 614th anti-tank artillery regiment. In one of its engagements he was captured by Germans, escaped from imprisonment and joined the anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Krasnodon.
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