Background
Fedor Kukharev was born on 18 March in 1924 in the village Antonovka now Dobrush district of the Gomel region (Belarus) in the peasant family.
Fedor Kukharev was born on 18 March in 1924 in the village Antonovka now Dobrush district of the Gomel region (Belarus) in the peasant family.
Fedor graduated from the 8th form of school in Dobrush.
Fedor Kukharev worked in a mine in the Donbass.
During the Great Patriotic War, after the occupation of Donbass, he returned to Dobrush. He led the collection of weapons for the partisans, distributed leaflets in Dobrush and Gomel, conducted sabotage, personally blew up 3 enemy echelons.
In August 1943, he headed a sabotage group of the partisan detachment named after I.V. Stalin, the Dobrush guerrilla brigade. In the summer and autumn, he participated in the bombing of 24 enemy echelons.
By the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR’s Decree, August 15, 1944, Kukharev Fedor Yakovlevich was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union title “for exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command at the front in the struggle against the German invaders and courage and heroism shown at that time” and received the Gold Star (No. 4353) and Order of Lenin.
After the liberation of Dobrush in October 1943, he worked in a team to define the city, then – as the secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the factory "Hero of Labor." He lived in Dobrush, Gomel region.
He died on May 20, 1946, during the neutralization of the shell of the war.