Background
He was born on 4 (17) April in 1901 in the village of Zamoshe, now Ushachsky district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus in a peasant family.
Grave of the Hero
He was born on 4 (17) April in 1901 in the village of Zamoshe, now Ushachsky district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus in a peasant family.
In 1932 Fyodor studied at Higher Central Collective Agriculture School.
Since 1918-1923 Fyodor was a member of the Red Army. The member of the Civil War.
In 1932, after graduation from the Higher Central Collective Agriculture School, he worked as chairman of the collective farm, chairman of the village council, director of the machine and tractor station (MTS) in the Vitebsk region.
Participated in the liberation campaign of the Soviet troops in Western Ukraine and Western Belarus in 1939 and in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
Member of the Great Patriotic War from June 1941. Met the beginning of the war on the border.
Under the onslaught of the superior forces of the German invaders, the military unit in which Dubrovsky served, fought to the east. In the city of Rzhev, Kalinin, now Tver region, Fedor Dubrovsky was included in a group, which was created to organize the clandestine and partisan movement in Belarus.
In August 1941, a partisan detachment was created, and in September 1942 - the Chashniki partisan brigade, later the Dubov's brigade (Dubrovsky's guerrilla alias).
The history of the Great Patriotic War included the Chashniki battles of 1943 for the defeat of the fascist German garrison (about three soldiers) in the township of Chashniki on January 19-22 and October 19-21, 1943.
On January 19, 1943, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd detachments of the Chasniki partisan brigade of Dubov, in the quantity of three hundred and twenty fighters, blocked the garrison of the enemy and fired at him from the cannon for three days.
On January 22, 1943, the guerrillas, in order to stop the arrival of reinforcements to the encroached garrison from the village of Bacheykovo, Beshenkovichi district, blew up the bridge across the Ula river and engaged in a battle with the invaders. Because of the superiority of the enemy's forces, with the onset of darkness, the partisans withdrew to the brigade's location. As a result of the fighting, they captured the trophies, destroyed the flax factory and the bakery.
The battle in October 1943 was an integral part of the Lepel operation.
More than twenty partisan brigades and regiments of the Vitebsk and Minsk regions took part in the operation under the general command of F.F. Dubrovsky.
The guerrillas fought hard for the city of Lepel, the village of Bacheykovo (Bacheykovo fighting in 1943), the Chashniki township (the Chashniki battles of 1943), completely defeated nine enemy garrisons in the villages of Vorka, Demidovichi, Dubrova, Zaboene, Kamenka, Pochaevichi, Slobodka, and others. Having completed the assignment, the guerrillas withdrew from the area of combat encounters with the enemy and carried out attacks on his communications. As a result of the Lepel operation, another punitive operation of the invaders was foiled, the partisan zone between the rivers Berezina and the Western Dvina was significantly expanded.
By the end of the fall of 1943, the partisans of the compound under the command of F.F. Dubrovsky defeated twenty-two enemy garrisons, took an active part in the "rail war".
Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of September 16, 1943 - one of the ten commanders of partisan formations of the Belarusian SSR - F.F. Dubrovsky was given the military rank "Major-General".
After the liberation of Belarus from the German fascist invaders F.F. Dubrovsky from 1944 to 1953 worked as secretary of the Chashnik District Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus of the Vitebsk region, then - the director of the state farms named after V.I. Lenin and the "New Zelenki" of the Vitebsk region.
A veteran of three wars, a brave partisan brigade commander, Major-General Dubrovsky Fyodor Fomich. died on March 3, 1970.
By the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR’s Decree, September 16, 1943, Major-General Dubrovsky Fyodor Fomich 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 and Order of Lenin.
Near the village of Pyshna Lepelsky district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus, there is a monument devoted to guerrillas of the Dubov’s brigade.
In the village of Zamoshe - the birthplace of Dubrovskiy - there is a commemorative sign.
In the city of Novolukoml (Chashniki district, Vitebsk region) the lyceum of the builders was named by the name of F.F. Dubrovsky.
In 1931 Fyodor became the member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
