Marat Kazey

Marat Ivanovich Kazey (, ; 10 October 1929 in Stankovo village, Koidanova (now Dzyarzhynsk) District, Minsk Region, BSSR, USSR – 11 May 1944 in Khoromitskie village, Uzda District, Minsk Region, BSSR, USSR) was a Soviet partisan, scout, pioneer-hero, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.

Biography His father Ivan Georgievich Kazey was a communist activist who served for 10 years in the Baltic Fleet. He did military service on the battleship Marat, after which he named his son Marat. Then he worked at the Dzerzhinsk machine-tractor station, headed the training courses for tractor drivers, was the chairman of the comrades court. In 1935 he was arrested for "sabotage", rehabilitated posthumously in 1959.

Mother Anna Aleksandrovna Kazey was also an activist, she was a member of the election commission for elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Like her husband, she was subjected to reprisals, was arrested twice on charges of "Trotskyism", but was released. Despite the arrests, she continued to actively support the Soviet regime. During World War II, she hid wounded partisans and treated them, for which in 1942 she was hanged by the Germans in Minsk.

After the death of his mother, Marat and his older sister Ariadna in November 1942 went to the partisan detachment named after the 25th anniversary of October Revolution. There are two versions: according to one version, Marat blew himself up and the Germans approaching him. According to another version, Marat deliberately blew only himself, so as not to give the Nazis a reason for a punitive operation in the village of Khoromitskie. In the Kastrychnitski District of Minsk there is a street named after Marat Kazey. The bust of Marat Kazei was installed in the courtyard of the gymnasium number 25 named after Rimma Shershneva (Sedova street, 3). The first monument to Marat was installed at the place of his death, at the edge of the forest. It says: "Here on May 11, 1944, partisans Marat Kazey and Larin were killed." The pioneer camp "Marat Kazei", which is located in the village of Gorval (Rechytsa District, Gomel Region), is named in his honor, and his bust is also installed there. In the village of Stankovo (Dzerzhinsky district, Minsk region), a memorial obelisk was installed (opened in October 1958), and a local school was named after him. In Dzerzhinsk (Minsk region) on the Alley of Heroes on Dzerzhinsky Square there is a memorial sign. / A bust of Marat Kazei was installed on the territory of the Elektronik children's health camp in the village of Snovyanka (Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Awards Medal Gold Star Hero of the Soviet Union (08.05.1965); Order of Lenin (08.05.1965); Order of the Patriotic War First Class; Medal "For Courage" (Russia) Medal "For Battle Merit".