Background
Victor was born on 21 April in 1918 in the village of Davydovka Liskinsky district of the Voronezh region in the family of a worker.
Grave of Liventsev.
Picture of 1963.
Victor was born on 21 April in 1918 in the village of Davydovka Liskinsky district of the Voronezh region in the family of a worker.
Since 1937 Victor studied at courses of Voronezh Pedagogical Institute.
From 1955 he studied at Minsk Pedagogical Institute named after M. Gorky in Minskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
In 1941 Victor studied at Grodno Military-Political School in Grodno, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts', Belarus.
He studied at Republican Party School in 1952.
Being a student of the 9th grade taught drawing in the lower grades and drawing for the elders in the school.
In 1937 he graduated from 2 courses at the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. In 1937-1938 he worked as a teacher of the Liskin Secondary School.
In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in the 20th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division, then in the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 56th Rifle Division as deputy political instructor of the regimental battery.
In 1939 he took part in the Liberation Campaign to Western Belarus in 1939, as well as in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 in the post of political officer of the mortar company.
June 22, 1941 Liventsev took the first battle near the Western border.
At the end of July 1941, Liventsev was in occupied Bobruisk. Liventsev began to create an underground group. Soon they contacted local Komsomol underground groups. Having united them, he headed an underground organization.
In December 1941, the 752nd guerrilla unit under the command of Liventsev took the first battle, defeating a fascist punitive detachment in the Teterino farm.
In March 1942 the partisan detachment relocated to the Klichev district of the Mogilev region. Together with local detachments on April 20, 1942, a garrison was destroyed in the regional center of Klichev. The vast territory of the Klitschevsky, Berezinsky, Kirov and Belynichsky districts was cleared from the invaders. There was a partisan zone. The organs of Soviet management were restored.
By the fall of 1942, 23 enemy echelons were derailed.
In August 1942, the German invaders threw about 4 divisions against the Klitschevsky Soviet district. A severe blockade began. For several days the detachment of Liventsev was defended by the regional center Klichev, letting peaceful civilians leave for the woods, and after breaking through the siege, he left for the Osipovichi district where the detachment of V.Tikhomirov acted. With the arrival of the detachment of the hero of the Civil War A.Flegontov in the area, a powerful guerrilla unit was created.
In the fall of 1942, a detachment of Liventsev sent dozens of enemy echelons to a slope.
At the beginning of 1943, the order of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement was transformed into the 1st Bobruisk partisan brigade. During the move, Liventsev personally created a cliché for the new newspaper "Bobruisk Partisan", which soon began to be printed at a detached printing house.
In 1943 Liventsev's team "survived" several blockades. 4 times had to break through the enemy encirclement. Particularly heavy fighting unfolded in May 1943.
In the summer of 1943 the "rail war" began. The Liventsev’s Brigade received its site near Bobruisk.
In connection with the approach of the Red Army, the Liventsev’s brigade began to make all kinds of obstacles to the retreating enemy troops. On the roads, debris and ambushes were made, bridges were destroyed, the stolen property was taken away from the Germans. Liventseva's brigade was supervised by Bobruisk, Osipovichi, Zhlobin. A total of 5 locomotives were damaged, 23 platforms with gasoline, 8 tanks with aircraft oil, 30 wagons with shells, 33 wagons with aerial bombs, 15 wagons with products, 8 tanks were burned, a checkpoint, depot building and coal depots were put out of action.
From 1944 to 1950, V. I. Liventsev worked as a secretary, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communist League of Belarus.
Since 1958, for 20 years, he was the chairman of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sport of Belarus. The years of his work at the head of the Belarusian sport are called "the era of Liventsev." For these two decades, the largest sports facilities and complexes have appeared in the republic, which today are the main bases for Olympic training of Belarusian athletes: "Staiki", "Raubichi", Minsk water sports complex (now Olimpiysky), equestrian sports base in Ratomka. In those years, such bright stars of the Belarusian sport as Olympic champions Alexander Medved, Romuald Klim, Sergei Makarenko and Leonid Geishtor, Oleg Karavaev, Elena Belova, Viktor Sidyak, Olga Korbut appeared.
From 1978 to 1986, V. I. Liventsev worked as the manager of the affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. On a number of congresses, the PBC elected him a candidate member of the Central Committee.
He was elected deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR 5-10-th convocation.
Lived in the city-hero of Minsk. He died on September 28, 2009, at the 92nd year of his life. He was buried on East cemetery in Minsk
Member of the CPSU since 1940.
Liventsev was a quiet man with a big heart. He was brave and strong, ready to face all the difficulties, but at the same time modest.
Physical Characteristics: During the war, he was wounded in the stomach, did not pay attention to it in time and fell ill with peritonitis. Was sick for a while.
Quotes from others about the person
Daughter Natalia Victorovna:
Dad was a man of exceptional responsibility, selflessly loving the Motherland. Of course, he missed his native land, but over the years of his life in Belarus he fell in love with his whole heart.
Very correct, honest, kind ... He possessed a tremendous memory, he knew how to navigate the terrain perfectly, and in the forest - especially. He was excellent in skiing, shooting. At the Komsomol dachas, a shooting range was arranged with Masherov.
Until the end of his life, the he was the vice-president of the European Shooting Federation. He was very athletic, and he took us to gymnastics, swimming.
He did not even take a drop of alcohol because of the the allergy, but with such a healthy lifestyle he did not let go of a cigarette, he smoked at least 4 packs a day. And in 70 years he said: "Everything, I smoked my own."
He planted roses, he took care of them. When we were children, he made mini-radios in a matchbox or soap box. Probably, there was nothing that Papa could not make. He made table lamps, wall carved clocks, caskets ... All the furniture in the cottage, including cabinets and beds, was made by his hands.
He wanted to have a lot of children. He said: "There must be so many children that on New Year's you do not need to put strangers on your own, it's enough to get hold of your hands." But he loved strangers, he invited everyone to visit. He treated us with respect and love.
He was married twice and had 3 children.