"The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno": Fedor Botyan
Fedor Denisovich Botyan was born on April 17, 1903 in Andriyanovo village, Orsha district, Mogilev province.
In 1941, during the evacuation from Bialystok, Fedor Botyan was surrounded near Yaroshevichi village in Pruzhansky district of the Brest region. He lived with a local doctor and worked as a laborer.
On July 20, 1943, he joined the Kirov partisan detachment of the Brest partisan unit, where he remained until the liberation of the territory by the Red Army.
From 1944 to 1945, Fedor Botyan worked as the Deputy Director of Grodno Pedagogical Institute.
From the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University", author-compiler - Andrey Getsevich.
