On 30 July 1943, Belarusian partisan Fyodor Krylovich carried out the most effective sabotage operation of WWII

🌟On 30 July 1943, Belarusian partisan Fyodor Krylovich carried out the most effective sabotage operation by partisans during the Great Patriotic War.

👉Krylovich worked as a railway worker in the Nazi-occupied town of Osipovichy. Unnoticed by Germans and collaborators, he listened to Moscow news bulletins, distributed leaflets, and passed intelligence to partisans.

At the end of July, the resistance fighter received two magnetic mines, which he planted on an enemy railway train. At night, the mines detonated. The explosions lasted ten hours!

❗️The Germans lost 23–25 fuel tanks, 65 ammunition cars, 5 'Tiger' tanks, 3 'L-20' tanks, 10 armored vehicles, 5 locomotives, and a coal depot—supplies intended for the decisive Battle of Kursk.

In Berlin, eight generals of the security service were dismissed; some were executed. The explosions allowed hundreds of Red Army prisoners to escape, as frightened concentration camp guards fled.

🎖For his heroism, he was awarded the medal 'Partisan of the Patriotic War' and the Order of Lenin.

Fyodor Krylovich passed away in 1959. A street in Osipovichy is named after him, and in 2009, a monument was erected on the railway station platform.