Background
Sydir Kovpak was born on June 7, 1887 in Kotelva, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
Sydir Kovpak was born on June 7, 1887 in Kotelva, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
During the Civil War, joined communist partisans fighting the Germans, and later the Whites, in the Ukraine, against Kolchak in the East and Wrangel in the Crimea. In the 1920s, in the Red Army in the Ukraine. During World War II, organized partisan detachments.
Made an extremely long, celebrated raid over 10,000km, which was in fact a constant retreat from his pursuers, from the Briansk forests in central Russia through the whole of German-occupied Ukraine to the Carpathian mountains, 1942-1943. Promoted to Major-general, 1943. Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine, 1947.