Background
IGNATOV, Geniy was born on March 12, 1925. Son of an engineering and writer
Kuban’ partisan in World War 2
IGNATOV, Geniy was born on March 12, 1925. Son of an engineering and writer
Studied in 9th Grade at School Nr 8 in Krasnodar.
August 1942, as German troops advanced into the Caucasus, together with his father, mother and elder brother joined partisan detachment. His father, P. K. Ignatov (partisan alias: Batya) described the operations of this detachment in his book Zapiski partizana (A Partisan’s Notes) (1949).
Communist Youth League member.