Legendary organizer. There was a problem of people not allowed to travel abroad

Under him, the largest sports complexes and facilities in Belarus became our calling card. “The Age of Liventsev” was the name given to the years when the head of the Sports Committee of the BSSR was a veteran colonel, former commander of a partisan brigade, Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Ilyich Liventsev, who would have turned 100 years old today.

THICK and weighty photo albums laid out in front of me by Liventsev’s daughter Natalya Viktorovna contained almost the entire history of the long and colorful life of this amazing man. Viktor Ilyich himself was very fond of photography, even during the war years he managed to take photographs that, in my opinion, are simply priceless today. These same albums were designed by his hands. A real rarity, it was even exciting to touch. And when you see the dates “1922”, “1939”, “1943”, you are completely lost.

Don Cossack boy

Viktor Ilyich was born on April 21, 1918 in the village of Davydovka, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region, into the family of an employee. Father Ilya Sergeevich was first a telegraph operator, then a switchman on the railway. The mother, whose maiden name was Kallistova Concordia Alfredovna, spoke several foreign languages and most likely belonged to the rich and noble family of the head of the railway station in those parts. Natalya Viktorovna keeps a unique document from the Voronezh Cathedral about the wedding of Ilya and Concordia. But after the revolution, only the name Liventsev was listed on the documents; it was forbidden to mention the history of the Kallistov family. Victor was the eldest child, then George appeared, but he died during the war. Due to severe congenital myopia, he was blown up by shells; no one ever found him. The youngest in the family were Taisiya and Valentina, the latter was born in 1939. The mother took care of the house and raised the children. They lived modestly. They kept goats and knitted scarves from the fluff for sale.

Together with father Ilya

A Don Cossack boy traveled 12 miles to school on a steam locomotive, when it slowed down at the station, clung to the handrails as it went, and jumped onto the steps. So I drove, and in winter even my hands froze to the iron. As a child, he helped his father build a house in the city of Liski. This is probably when his love for construction began. As a child, with friends I jumped from the high salt mountains into the Don. He swam and shot well, attended the section and passed the standards. He took photographs, drew school wall newspapers, and posted his photographs. Even during the war I carried a Leica with me. Since childhood I have been a great drawer. As a 9th grade student, I took on mentoring; there were not enough teachers at school. He taught drawing in the junior grades, and a little later, drawing in the senior grades. Entered the Faculty of Mathematics of the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. Rumors that there might be war came quickly. Victor gave up mentoring and decided to go to a cavalry school, although he had never even ridden a horse before.

Colonel, partisan commander and Hero

As a twenty-year-old boy in October 1938, he was drafted into the Red Army. First there was service in the 20th Cavalry Regiment, then in the 37th Infantry Regiment. The young deputy political commander of the regimental battery took part in the liberation of Western Belarus in 1939. Almost immediately the Soviet-Finnish war began. After graduating from the Grodno Military-Political School, he received the position of political instructor of a mortar company. In the same 1939, from an unsuccessful marriage with a classmate, a son, Anatoly, was born, with whom both his father and his family were friends until Tolya’s death.

LIVENTSEV family

June 22, 1941... The Great Patriotic War for Viktor Liventsev began right at the border. His mortar company fought off enemy attacks all day, defending an unnamed height among the swamps. The soldiers did not know that the Germans had closed them in a tight ring. We decided to retreat to the east, practically without weapons. Encountering similar scattered groups along the way, they fought heavy defensive battles near Volkovysk and Baranovichi. By the end of July, Liventsev found himself in Bobruisk. In the occupied city, he created and led an underground group that teamed up with Komsomol members. In one of the bombed buildings, underground fighters found blank passports and German certificates... Using the artist’s talent, Liventsev forged signatures, made seals from raw potatoes and provided documents to more than three hundred people. Thanks to this, people could move around the city without fear of being checked by the fascists, collect information from the Sovinformburo, rewrite and distribute leaflets. But because of the traitor, the Gestapo learned about the underground, and members of the organization, and there were about 400 people, went into the forest to join the partisans. There, Viktor Ilyich led the 752nd detachment, the first battle took place in December 1941, defeating the punitive forces on the Teterino farm. Then the partisans defeated the German garrisons in Kurin and Ozarichi.

Liberation of Western Belarus. Behind the LIVENTSEV gun, 1939

Since March 1942, the detachment operated in the Klichevsky district and took part in the destruction of the enemy garrison in the regional center. The territories of Klichevsky, Berezinsky, Kirovsky and Belynichi districts were cleared of occupiers. They created a partisan zone with the bodies of Soviet government - the Rudobel Republic. Liventsev's partisans gave no rest to the Germans on the railways and highways. 55 railway trains were blown up, 12 of them were completely destroyed. In September 1942, the commander received his first award - the Order of the Red Banner, and at the beginning of 1943 the detachment was transformed into the 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade under the command of 25-year-old Colonel Liventsev. He had about two thousand people under his command. At the end of December 1943, near the village of Parichi, they met with Soviet military intelligence. For several days the forest avengers held the line on the front until they were joined by the main forces of the 1st Belorussian Front.

Commissioner LEPESHKIN and commander LIVENTSEV, 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade, 1943

For the courage and heroism shown when carrying out tasks behind enemy lines, for the special development of the partisan movement in Belarus, Viktor Ilyich Liventsev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on January 1, 1944.

Back in 1941, in Bobruisk, he met a girl, Anna Smolnikova. Originally from the Urals, graduated from the Leningrad Financial College, assigned to work in Belarus. With the beginning of the war, she found herself in the Bobruisk underground, filming news reports from the radio in a rented apartment. We fought together from the first to the last day. Later, Anna Matveevna admitted to the children: “I didn’t immediately like Victor’s appearance, he was kind of ugly. White hair, blue eyes, colorless eyebrows... Just faceless. I thought: “Lord, someone would marry someone like that?” Then I fell in love when I saw a brave and courageous hero.” They registered the newlyweds directly with the partisan detachment, making an entry in the book. The eldest son Valery was born on June 8, 1945.

Looking ahead, I will say: Viktor Ilyich, at almost 90 years old, went to Berlin as part of a delegation of Belarusian veterans. When former Wehrmacht soldiers asked what the partisans at the monument to the Soviet soldier in Treptower Park were thinking now, the gray-haired old man replied: “I think that there is a higher justice in the world. It is that the war returned and ended where it came from. Ended with the victory of good over evil." For him, the holiday of May 9 was always the only, main and important holiday that was celebrated by the whole family. And the memory of the war is sacred.

Spartakiad. Far right Viktor LIVENTSEV, 1960s

On March 12, 1971, the “Battalion of Belarusian Eaglets” was created with Liventsev’s signature, and he himself became its lifelong commander. The battalion included former young participants in the Great Patriotic War: underground fighters, partisans, sons and daughters of regiments, fleet cabin boys (from 9 to 13 years old) who had certificates of war participants. This association still exists and has about 179 people throughout Belarus.

Minister of Sports

War is over. Liventsev planned to return with his family to his small homeland, but the party said: “You are needed here, on Belarusian soil. You will raise and restore the destroyed economy.”

Who if not me? Viktor Ilyich adhered to this principle, so he stayed without hesitation. But the unexpected happened. During the war, he was wounded in the stomach, did not pay attention to it in time and developed peritonitis.

Natalya Viktorovna says: “He was literally taken from the other world, he was dying. Professor Maslov was invited from the Kremlin. For a year and a half, my dad was given several drops of lemon juice into his mouth through an IV. My entire abdomen was in tubes and I underwent five surgeries. We had difficulty getting lemons; we even brought them from Moscow. And you know, Maslov raised it. We lived in a multi-storey building on Karl Marx Street. Dad was given the 1st group and a separate house on Polyarnaya. The toilet is outside, there's not even water. But you need to know the father's character. He began to actively engage in sports, starting first with light exercises. In addition, he loved to build, repair, make things... A year later, cold water appeared in the house, and when he installed a coal boiler, hot water appeared. I made a toilet and a bathroom in the house. Do you understand? Myself! Around us stood the barracks of the Kirov plant and houses covered with tin. Then dad bought fruit trees and shrubs from the Botanical Garden and planted them near the house. He allowed all his neighbors to come for berries and fruits and treated everyone. After some time, the disability was lifted, and he worked as secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee together with Masherov.”

In 1958, Liventsev headed the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR. The largest sports facilities and complexes appeared. Sports Palace, “Staiki”, “Raubichi”, “Olympic”, equestrian sports center in Ratomka. When I was often abroad, I found beautiful objects and brought back drawings, projects and diagrams. Belarusian designers and builders were given the task: to find the best and implement this idea here. Natalya Viktorovna recalls: “Based on his drawing, they even built the first steam room in Minsk at the Institute of Physical Education. Dad spent all his money on the construction of this or that sports complex. At the end of each year, he came home, smiled and said to his mother: “Annushka, I was reprimanded for overspending.” But at the beginning of the next day, when the results were summed up, he received a challenge Red Banner and a bonus. And we gathered with the whole family at the table, including my mother’s mother, who lived with us, and distributed this bonus, arranged a vote. I remember how one year my mother wanted a refrigerator, and we wanted a TV, but there wasn’t enough for both. And dad reassured: “Okay, I’ll take money from the mutual aid fund, we’ll buy both a refrigerator and a TV.” Then in the evenings all the adults and children from our Polyarnaya Street came, even sat on the floor, watching films and programs.

...And just a dear person

Many knew Viktor Ilyich only as a Hero, an athlete, a leader... But in ordinary life? Only someone who was nearby all the time can tell about this. The eldest daughter Natalya, in her own words, never parted with her parents, even when she got married and gave birth to children, she lived with them:

Dad was a man of exceptional responsibility, selflessly loving his Motherland. Of course, I missed my native land, but over the years of living in Belarus I fell in love with it with all my heart. He said: “We, Belarusians; here, Belarusians.” I put the emphasis in my own way. Very correct, honest, kind... He had an amazing memory, knew how to navigate the terrain perfectly, and especially in the forest. Wherever we went to pick mushrooms, he always quickly found the right direction and led us onto the road. He was excellent at skiing and shooting. At the Komsomol dachas we set up a shooting range with Masherov, he was also an excellent shooter. Instead of a target, they hung a pack of Kazbek cigarettes and aimed at this Kazbek’s head. Until the end of his life, dad was vice-president of the European Shooting Federation. He was a very athletic person and took us to gymnastics and swimming. I didn’t even drink a drop of alcohol, I had allergies, I even missed 100 grams during the front line. But with such a healthy lifestyle, he never let go of a cigarette and smoked at least 4 packs a day. He might not put out one and immediately light another. I thought that it didn’t drag on, there was no harm from it. And at the age of 70 he said: “That’s it, I smoked mine.”

He grew roses and took care of them himself. When we were children, he made us mini radios in a matchbox or soap dish. In his office he was soldering and making something. My older brother hovered around him, even me, a girl, was allowed into the smallest details. There was probably nothing that dad couldn't make. He made table lamps, carved wall clocks, boxes... All the furniture in the dacha, including wardrobes and beds, was made by his hands. I remember how my brother and I created an exact copy of the cruiser Aurora. The meter-long hull was soldered from sheet metal, all the guns, chains, anchors were made... Then my dad donated the cruiser to some school.

Elena KHOLODOVA and Victor LIVENTSEV with their grandchildrenAlexandra and Alexander, 1990s

He didn't have anything in his house. Tito gave the gold pen given by Josip Broz to some guest who simply liked it. No one left us empty-handed. He could take a photo out of his album and give it as a gift, even if he didn’t have one left. I never had my own car, but in my declining years I wanted a “Zaporozhets” so that I could put a shovel and rake in it and I didn’t have to lock the door. We chipped in and bought a light green car of his choice. He drove it for about 10 years, then gave it to his neighbor in the country, whose same car broke down. I decided that it was more necessary for him.

I wanted many children, although doctors forbade my mother to give birth. He said: “There should be so many children that on New Year’s Day there is no need to place strangers around the big tree, there are enough of your own to hold hands.” But he also loved strangers and invited everyone to visit. He treated us with respect and love. Mom has a quick-tempered and stubborn character, but dad knew how to smooth out all the corners and not react to women’s whims. He simply defeated her with his calmness. Mom worked as a financier all her life. After the war I was constantly sick. Dad took care of both of us: he did laundry, cooked, changed diapers... In 1951, I was born, then Nadezhda. Brother Valery died in Moscow in connection with the events near the White House. Mom was no longer around at that time; she died in 1982. I will never forget Valera’s funeral service. Dad stood with his eyes closed over the coffin and swayed. Imagine, there was such power in a man, he went through so much, experienced so much, and here... Who knows what was happening in his soul. This is the most terrible memory of my life. After his mother’s death, he was alone for some time, then he met a wonderful woman, Professor Elena Alekseevna Kholodova, with whom he lived happily for 22 years. We are still very friendly with her.

Only twice in his life did he go on vacation: in 1946 and 1947 he was in Sochi. I spent all my holidays with a saw and hammer. He retired at the age of 70. Do you know what I was doing? He sawed and planed, screwed and soldered, and then gave away his crafts to friends. I was always busy with something. At the age of 90, I got up in the morning and went to buy a newspaper. I could drive to the final metro stop and walk back. He always carried some bags from the store and market. Until the last day, I did exercises, did squats 25 times, worked out on an exercise bike, and went to the steam room with a broom.

We are all trying to live up to it, but it is almost impossible. He had his own code of honor: “A person must keep his word, love his Motherland without any chatter. Said and done." He has 2 Orders of Lenin, 2 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree, Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, Red Star, Badge of Honor, numerous medals and certificates. He never wore any awards, only the Hero star. Streets in Bobruisk and Minsk are named after him, he is an honorary citizen of Bobruisk.

During his lifetime, Dad’s bust by Azgur was installed in the National Art Museum of Belarus. He died on September 28, 2009, and was buried in the Eastern Cemetery.

WHILE we were talking with Natalya Viktorovna, I kept glancing at the wall where a large portrait of Viktor Ilyich hung. It was written by the youngest daughter Nadezhda Liventseva during her father’s lifetime. That's who the artist's talent was passed on to. Four children, 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren... The head of the family considered himself a happy person, he always said: “Everything is fine with me!” Life is Beautiful!"

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Participant in defensive battles in Belarus in the city and the partisan movement in Belarus in 1941-1943. Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR, deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR 5 - 10 convocations.

Biography

1937 - graduated from the 2nd year of the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute.
1937-1938 - teacher at a secondary school in Svoboda (now Liski).
1938-1939 - service in the 20th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division, then in the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 56th Infantry Division as deputy political instructor of the regimental battery.
1939 - participation in the campaign to Western Belarus.
1939-1940 - participant in the Soviet-Finnish war as a political instructor of a mortar company.
1941 - graduated from the Grodno Military-Political School.
1941 - from the first day of the war, he participated in defensive battles on the territory of modern Grodno and Brest regions. Finding himself surrounded, in the occupied city of Bobruisk he created an underground group, and then a large partisan detachment (752nd), becoming its commander.
1943 - Liventsev’s detachment, by order of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, was transformed into the 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade, which operated on the territory of modern Mogilev and Gomel regions of Belarus. On December 25, 1943, near the village of Parichi, the partisans met with Soviet military intelligence, then the brigade held the defense on the front for several days.
1944-1950 - secretary, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus.
1952 - graduated from the party school under the Central Committee of the CPB.
1955 - graduated.
1958-1978 - Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR.
1978-1986 - Managing Director of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.

He was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPB, at the XXIV Congress - a member of the Central Committee of the CPB. Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Byelorussian SSR, Honorary Citizen of Bobruisk, Mogilev Region of Belarus (city).

He died on September 28, 2009, at the age of 92. He was buried at the Eastern Cemetery in Minsk.

A street is named after the Hero in the city of Bobruisk (street named after Liventsev Viktor Ilyich, city) and in. Minsk (Viktor Liventsev Street, 2010).

Awards

Gold Star Medal - January 1, 1944 (medal no. 2631).
Order of Lenin (twice).
Order of the Red Banner (twice).
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (twice).
Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree.
Medals.

book author

Partisan region. 1983.

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Notes

Literature

Heroes of the Soviet Union. Brief biographical dictionary. - T. 1. - M.: Voenizdat, 1987.
National struggle in Belarus: In 3 volumes - Minsk: Belarus, 1984.
Kuleshov A. P. All new horizons [About V.I. Liventsev]. - M.: Physical culture and sport, 1975. - 215 p. - (Hearts given to sports).

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Excerpt characterizing Liventsev, Viktor Ilyich

Russian troops passed through Moscow from two o'clock in the morning until two o'clock in the afternoon, carrying with them the last residents and wounded who were leaving.
The biggest crush during the movement of troops occurred on the Kamenny, Moskvoretsky and Yauzsky bridges.
While, bifurcated around the Kremlin, the troops crowded onto the Moskvoretsky and Kamenny bridges, a huge number of soldiers, taking advantage of the stop and crowded conditions, returned from the bridges and stealthily and silently snuck past St. Basil's and under the Borovitsky Gate back up the hill to Red Square, on which, by some instinct, they felt that they could easily take someone else’s property. The same crowd of people, as if for cheap goods, filled Gostiny Dvor in all its passages and passages. But there were no tenderly sugary, alluring voices of the hotel guests, there were no peddlers and a motley female crowd of buyers - there were only the uniforms and greatcoats of soldiers without guns, silently leaving with burdens and entering the ranks without burdens. Merchants and peasants (there were few of them), as if lost, walked among the soldiers, unlocked and locked their shops, and themselves and the fellows carried their goods somewhere. Drummers stood on the square near Gostiny Dvor and beat the collection. But the sound of the drum forced the robber soldiers not, as before, to run to the call, but, on the contrary, forced them to run further away from the drum. Between the soldiers, along the benches and aisles, people in gray caftans and with shaved heads could be seen. Two officers, one in a scarf over his uniform, on a thin dark gray horse, the other in an overcoat, on foot, stood at the corner of Ilyinka and talked about something. The third officer galloped up to them.
“The general ordered everyone to be expelled now at any cost.” What the hell, it’s like nothing else! Half the people fled.
“Where are you going?.. Where are you going?” he shouted at three infantry soldiers who, without guns, having picked up the skirts of their greatcoats, slipped past him into the ranks. - Stop, rascals!
- Yes, please collect them! - answered another officer. – You can’t collect them; we have to go quickly so that the last ones don’t leave, that’s all!
- How to go? they stood there, huddled on the bridge and didn’t move. Or put a chain so that the last ones don’t run away?
- Yes, go there! Get them out! - the senior officer shouted.
The officer in the scarf got off his horse, called the drummer and went with him under the arches. Several soldiers began to run in a crowd. The merchant, with red pimples on his cheeks near his nose, with a calmly unshakable expression of calculation on his well-fed face, hastily and dapperly, waving his arms, approached the officer.
“Your honor,” he said, “do me a favor and protect me.” It’s not a small matter for us, it’s our pleasure! Please, I’ll take out the cloth now, at least two pieces for a noble man, with our pleasure! Because we feel, well, this is just robbery! You're welcome! Perhaps they would have posted a guard, or at least given a lock...
Several merchants crowded around the officer.
- Eh! it's a waste of time to lie! - said one of them, thin, with a stern face. “When you take off your head, you don’t cry over your hair.” Take whatever you like! “And he waved his hand with an energetic gesture and turned sideways to the officer.
“It’s good for you, Ivan Sidorich, to speak,” the first merchant spoke angrily. - You are welcome, your honor.
- What should I say! – the thin man shouted. “I have a hundred thousand goods in three shops here.” Can you save it when the army is gone? Eh, people, God’s power cannot be broken with one’s hands!
“Please, your honor,” said the first merchant, bowing. The officer stood in bewilderment, and indecision was visible on his face.
- What do I care! - he suddenly shouted and walked with quick steps forward along the row. In one open shop, blows and curses were heard, and while the officer was approaching it, a man in a gray overcoat and with a shaved head jumped out of the door.
This man, bending over, rushed past the merchants and the officer. The officer attacked the soldiers who were in the shop. But at that time, terrible screams of a huge crowd were heard on the Moskvoretsky Bridge, and the officer ran out onto the square.
- What's happened? What's happened? - he asked, but his comrade was already galloping towards the screams, past St. Basil the Blessed. The officer mounted and rode after him. When he arrived at the bridge, he saw two cannons removed from their limbers, infantry walking across the bridge, several fallen carts, several frightened faces and the laughing faces of soldiers. Near the cannons stood one cart drawn by a pair. Behind the cart, four greyhound dogs in collars huddled behind the wheels. There was a mountain of things on the cart, and at the very top, next to the children’s chair, a woman was sitting with her legs turned upside down, screaming shrilly and desperately. The comrades told the officer that the scream of the crowd and the squeals of the woman occurred because General Ermolov, who drove into this crowd, having learned that the soldiers were scattering among the shops and crowds of residents were blocking the bridge, ordered the guns to be removed from the limbers and an example was made that he would shoot at the bridge . The crowd, knocking down the carts, crushing each other, screaming desperately, crowding in, cleared the bridge, and the troops moved forward.

Meanwhile, the city itself was empty. There was almost no one on the streets. The gates and shops were all locked; here and there near the taverns lonely screams or drunken singing could be heard. No one drove along the streets, and pedestrian footsteps were rarely heard. On Povarskaya it was completely quiet and deserted. In the huge courtyard of the Rostovs' house there were scraps of hay and droppings from a transport train, and not a single person was visible. In the Rostov house, which was left with all its good things, two people were in the large living room. These were the janitor Ignat and the Cossack Mishka, Vasilich’s grandson, who remained in Moscow with his grandfather. Mishka opened the clavichord and played it with one finger. The janitor, arms akimbo and smiling joyfully, stood in front of a large mirror.
- That’s clever! A? Uncle Ignat! - the boy said, suddenly starting to clap the keys with both hands.
- Look! - Ignat answered, marveling at how his face smiled more and more in the mirror.
- Shameless! Really, shameless! – the voice of Mavra Kuzminishna, who quietly entered, spoke from behind them. - Eka, thick-horned, he bares his teeth. Take you on this! Everything there is not tidy, Vasilich is knocked off his feet. Give it time!
Ignat, adjusting his belt, stopped smiling and submissively lowered his eyes, walked out of the room.
“Auntie, I’ll go easy,” said the boy.
- I'll give you a light one. Little shooter! – Mavra Kuzminishna shouted, raising her hand at him. - Go and set up a samovar for grandfather.
Mavra Kuzminishna, brushing off the dust, closed the clavichord and, sighing heavily, left the living room and locked the front door.
Coming out into the courtyard, Mavra Kuzminishna thought about where she should go now: should she drink tea in Vasilich’s outbuilding or tidy up what had not yet been tidied up in the pantry?

L Iventsev Viktor Ilyich - commander of the 1st Bobruisk partisan brigade of Belarus, colonel.
Born on April 21, 1918 in the village of Davydovka, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region, in the family of an employee. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1940. In 1937 he graduated from 2 courses at the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. In 1937-1938 he worked as a teacher at Liskinsky 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 Infantry Division as deputy political instructor of the regimental battery. In 1939, he took part in the Liberation Campaign in Western Belarus in 1939, as well as in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939 - 1940 as a political instructor of a mortar company. In 1941 he graduated from the Grodno Military-Political School.
On June 22, 1941, Liventsev took part in the first battle near the Western border. For 3 days the mortar company defended an unnamed height among the swamps. The soldiers did not know that they were surrounded. Then it was decided to move east. Having joined the column, which consisted of scattered units and subunits, they fought for 2 days near Volkovysk. The enemy crushed the defenses, and Liventsev, as part of the encircled group, again had to retreat. They fought surrounded by Baranavichy and in other places.
At the end of July 1941, Liventsev found himself in occupied Bobruisk. Having accidentally met with 2 other “circumstances”, Liventsev began to create an underground group. They soon contacted local Komsomol underground groups. Having united them, Liventsev headed an underground organization.
First, they made fake documents for themselves and others, began to accept reports from the Sovinformburo, copy them onto leaflets and distribute them throughout the city. We collected weapons. They destroyed individual Nazis. Soon the Gestapo was on the trail of the underground. Liventsev suggested that everyone go into the forest and continue the fight there. At the end of November 1941, about 400 people were withdrawn to the partisan detachments of the Oktyabrsky district. This was the only time a large underground organization was brought into the forest without failure. Moreover, without waiting for spring. This was a great merit of the talented underground organizer Viktor Liventsev.
In December 1941, the 752nd partisan detachment under the command of Liventsev took the first battle, defeating the fascist punitive detachment on the Teterino farm. Then the Nazi garrisons in the village of Kurin and the village of Ozarichi were liquidated.
In March 1942, Liventsev’s partisan detachment relocated to the Klichevsky district of the Mogilev region. Together with local detachments, on April 20, 1942, the garrison in the regional center of Klichev was defeated. The vast territory of the Klichevsky, Berezinsky, Kirovsky and Belynichi districts was cleared of occupiers. A partisan zone emerged. Soviet government bodies were restored.
Every day, sabotage groups left the Klichev partisan zone on missions on highways and railways. Thus, by the fall of 1942, P. Kozhushko’s group from Liventsev’s detachment derailed 23 enemy echelons.
During a raid on the Minsk-Moscow railway, Liventsev’s detachment met with the female landing group of Elena Kolesova, who had a walkie-talkie. A connection with the “mainland” appeared. Soon the first transport plane from V.S. Grizodubova’s regiment landed at the Klichevsky airfield.
In August 1942, the Nazis sent about 4 divisions against the Klichevsky Soviet region. A severe blockade began. For several days, Liventsev’s detachment defended the regional center of Klichev, allowing civilians to escape into the forests, and then, breaking through the ring, went to the Osipovichi district, where V. Tikhomirov’s detachment operated. With the arrival of the detachment of the civil war hero A. Flegontov, a powerful partisan formation was created in the area.
In the fall of 1942, Liventsev’s detachment daily confirmed the slogan: “Kill the German in Belarus so that he will not be at Stalingrad!” Dozens of enemy trains went downhill. If there was not enough tol, it was smelted from aerial bombs.
On November 4, 1942, on the section of the Talka-Vereytsy railway, a train was stopped by a mine, and then Liventsev’s entire detachment was completely destroyed. A few days later, another train was burned in the same way. And on the night of New Year 1943, in the area of Tatarka station, Liventsev’s detachment destroyed a train with manpower. Hundreds of Nazis did not reach the front.
At the beginning of 1943, Liventsev’s detachment, by order of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, was transformed into the 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade, which was supposed to “work” in the vicinity of the city of Bobruisk. I had to change the location again. During the move, Liventsev personally created a cliche for the new newspaper “Bobruisk Partisan”, which soon began to be printed at the detachment printing house.
In 1943, Liventsev’s brigade “survived” several blockades. 4 times we had to break through the enemy encirclement. Particularly heavy fighting took place in May 1943. Having broken through the ring, Liventsev led the brigade back to the Oktyabrsky district.
In the summer of 1943, the “rail war” began. Liventsev’s brigade received its own site near Bobruisk. Over the course of several nights, all partisan detachments simultaneously reached the railroad. Everything flew into the air: rails, sleepers, bridges and switches, and even entire trains caught on the way.
In connection with the approach of the Red Army, Liventsev’s brigade began to “repair” all sorts of obstacles to the retreating Nazi troops. Blockages and ambushes were made on the roads, bridges were destroyed, and looted property was taken from the Germans. Liventsev's brigade kept Bobruisk, Osipovichi, and Zhlobin under surveillance. At the Osipovichi station, 2 magnetic mines were placed on fuel tanks. There were several more trains nearby. Soon a truly fiery extravaganza began. Here is a list of destruction: 5 locomotives were damaged, 23 platforms with gasoline, 8 tanks with aviation oil, 30 wagons with shells, 33 wagons with aerial bombs, 15 wagons with food, 8 tanks were burned, a checkpoint, a depot building and warehouses with coal were disabled.
On December 25, 1943, near the village of Parichi, the partisans met with Soviet military intelligence. Colonel Liventsev’s brigade held the line for several days on the “real” front until the main forces of the Red Army arrived.
The 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade became a worthy addition to the guards units of the 1st Belorussian Front. V.I. Liventsev was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus.
U Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on January 1, 1944 for courage and heroism shown when carrying out tasks behind enemy lines, and for special merits in the development of the partisan movement in Belarus Liventsev Viktor Ilyich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
From 1944 to 1950, V.I. Liventsev worked as secretary and second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus. In 1952 he graduated from the Republican Party School, then in 1955 from the Minsk Pedagogical Institute named after M. Gorky.
Since 1958, he was the chairman of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the BSSR for 20 years. The years of his work at the head of Belarusian sports are called the “Liventsev era.” Over these two decades, the largest sports facilities and complexes have appeared in the republic, which today are the main bases for the Olympic training of Belarusian athletes - these are “Stayki”, “Raubichi”, the Minsk water sports complex (now the Olympic Sports Complex), equestrian center base in Ratomka. These years saw the emergence of such bright stars of Belarusian sports as Olympic champions Alexander Medved, Romuald Klim, Sergei Makarenko and Leonid Geishtor, Oleg Karavaev, Elena Belova, Viktor Sidyak, Olga Korbut.
From 1978 to 1986, V.I. Liventsev worked as the manager of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. At a number of congresses of the CPB he was elected as a candidate member of the Central Committee, and at the XXIV Congress - a member of the Central Committee of the CPB. He was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR of the 5th-10th convocations.
Lived in the hero city of Minsk. He died on September 28, 2009, at the age of 92. He was buried at the Eastern Cemetery in Minsk.
Awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War 1st degree, Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, Red Star, "Badge of Honor", Belarusian Order "For Service to the Motherland" 3rd degree (04/15/1999 ), medals, including “For Labor Distinction”, “Partisan of the Patriotic War” 1st and 2nd degrees. Certificates of honor from the Supreme Council of the Byelorussian SSR. Gratitude of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2004).
Honorary citizen of the city of Bobruisk (1984). Honored Worker of Physical Culture and Sports of the Belarusian SSR.

In the previous issue, “PB” reported that last Monday, Hero of the Soviet Union Viktor Ilyich LIVENTSEV, who headed Belarusian sports for two decades, celebrated his 85th birthday. The gala reception at the Ministry of Sports did not shake the calmness and wisdom of the hero of the day. And readers will be able to judge what excellent shape he is in from the interview that Viktor Ilyich gave to a “PB” correspondent.

FROM THE “PB” DOSSIER

Viktor Ilyich LIVENTSEV. Born on April 21, 2018 in the village of Davydovka, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region. In 1940 he graduated from the Military-Political School, in 1952 - from the Higher Secondary School, in 1955 - from the Minsk Pedagogical Institute. During the war he was the organizer and commander of partisan detachments. Hero of the Soviet Union. Knight of the Order of Lenin, twice - the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War, ten certificates of the Supreme Council of the BSSR.

From 1958 to 1978 - Chairman of the Sports Committee under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR. From 1978 to 1986 - manager of the Central Committee of the CPB.

In the village of Davydovka, Liskinsky district, Voronezh region, I was born and studied the first three grades. Then our family moved to Liski - the largest railway junction. Father is a railway worker, mother is a housewife. There were four of us children. I'm the eldest. My brother and two sisters are no longer in the world. Georgy, when the front approached the Don, volunteered and died.

After school, together with a friend, we entered the Mining Institute in Leningrad, but did not pass the competition. With the same grades, we were accepted into the military communications school. But a week later we escaped from there and moved to Voronezh. I entered the pedagogical institute to study physics and mathematics. But I had to earn money, so I transferred to the correspondence department and began working at my native school as a teacher of drawing and drawing. Before 1938, he managed to complete two courses. On the eve of 1939 the call was large, but as a teacher, I had a reservation. However, at the military registration and enlistment office I suddenly thought: I need to join the army.

- So you came to Belarus?

Yes, in the 20th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cossack Division, which was stationed in Slutsk. He ended up in a regimental battery. Back then, people with secondary education almost never entered the army. So they immediately elected me secretary of the Komsomol organization of the battery and began to train me to be a gunner of a 46-mm cannon. I also mastered horseback riding - it’s not so easy if you’ve never sat on a horse before. In Cossack units, horse riding is in the foreground. At a gallop you have to jump up and jump off the horse, cut down the vine...

In September 1939, we were alerted and headed to the Stolbtsy area. In the morning we crossed the Polish border in battle. In the very first minutes, the dead and wounded appeared. We galloped and trotted all day. The Poles retreated in battle. And at night we walked: we slept as we walked, our helmets fell off. We approached Grodno. The tankers were the first to enter the city. They were pelted with bottles, and several tanks burned down. The next day we broke into Grodno, slipped through, walked all night through Belovezhskaya Pushcha and did not notice how we passed the Lithuanian border. Our bosses were scared. We went back and moved to Bialystok, then again to Grodno. There have already been small battles here.

- Did you take part in the parade of Soviet and German troops?

No, only in organizing elections to the Supreme Soviet of the BSSR from Western Belarus. In my opinion, in the village of Krasnoye. It was a difficult matter because the majority of the Polish population lived there. We quickly established contact with the Catholic Church. I came across such a smart priest. On election day there was not a single person at the polling stations, everyone was at the service in the church. I ran there and entered from the back doors. The priest reassured. Indeed, everyone from the church went to the polling stations and voted in literally an hour.

-Where did you meet the war?

In December 1940, he graduated from the military-political school and arrived in the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 56th Division as a political instructor of a mortar company. The regiment's headquarters was located in Shchuchin, about a hundred kilometers east of Grodno. In May we were taken to the western border to build a fortified area. We dug anti-tank ditches and firing points for machine guns. In June it became clear to everyone that we were on the eve of war. About ten of the scouts were caught every day. These are mainly Poles and Belarusians. They said that in a few days the war would begin. I don’t remember exactly, on June 17 or 19, the government announced that we have a non-aggression pact with Germany and we will not succumb to provocations. And on the other side everything thunders every night - we see tanks moving towards the border. Our mortars are not ready: in some boxes there are tail cartridges, in others there are blanks, in others there are heads. It takes time to connect them. On the 22nd, at two o'clock, one gun fired, the other, apparently, these were signals of combat readiness. After some time, their artillery fired a salvo at the location of our camp... And so the Great Patriotic War began for me.

Probably, the next six months can be called decisive in the life of Viktor Liventsev. Without anyone's orders, the 23-year-old political instructor organized a partisan detachment from a handful of soldiers and officers like him who survived the defeat of their units. They matured, wandering through the forests and swamps of Belarus, recapturing weapons and ammunition from the Nazis, gaining combat experience and acquiring new people. Finally, the detachments became so strong that they decided to storm Svetlogorsk.

One post was removed without a fight, they entered the city and, while the Germans came to their senses, by morning they defeated this garrison. They captured a bank, colossal warehouses with grain and weapons and went back to Rudobelka. It was January 1942.

In my detachment there were mainly officers. We decided to move northeast, to Smolensk. We entered the Klichev and Kirov forests - there were also small groups of partisans there. I had two 76-mm cannons, two “forty-five” guns and heavy machine guns, but they didn’t have that either. We united and decided to force a fight. The detachments of Svistunov, Izokha, mine and a number of other small ones blocked Klichev and took it within a day! The garrison was large. We smoked them out of the basements, they fought recklessly. They took weapons and food and retreated to the Sushi and Usakina area. Pavlovsky’s detachment, also small, about a hundred people, arrived from Cherven.

Colonel Nechiporovich summed up: the Klichev, Belynichi, Cherven and other garrisons were defeated. All around is the Soviet zone! They convened a party meeting and decided to restore village councils in all settlements, create a self-defense detachment in each village, and elected a district party committee and a district executive committee. Sowing was carried out.

- What about Moscow?

We had no connection with the mainland. I didn’t yet know what a party was, although I joined it. He acted according to his gut, considered himself a patriot and believed that he had to fight! And that's it! Moscow knew that there were detachments on Belarusian territory, but did not know how to establish contact with us. The first connection appeared in early May, when we came across our paratroopers in the Klichev forests. Before that, several parachute groups died, falling into the clutches of the Nazis. In the summer, Moscow awarded Nechiporovich the Order of Lenin, and me the Order of the Red Banner.

In the fall of 1942, the Germans, with the forces of four divisions, encircled the Klichev zone. We stayed surrounded for about two months and ate all our horses. It was impossible to light fires so as not to be discovered. They threw pieces of horse meat into the burning peat and ate them, black and burnt. It was impossible to cook anything from rye or wheat, because the Germans constantly harassed us with artillery and aircraft. There was, however, plenty of water: in the swamps, it was even better than river water. Every day we went for a breakthrough. But nothing worked. The ring was double. Then I tell Nechiporovich: I’ll go for a breakthrough in open areas where they won’t wait for us. The calculation turned out to be correct. We made our way into the Osipovichi forests, where we met with the detachments of the King, Tikhomirov and others. In this zone, I created a second detachment; there were only 700 people in two detachments. Later they became a brigade. They created many sabotage groups - probably 15-20. Trains on railways were blown up. At first only steam locomotives and the first carriages. Then they began to destroy the entire train. We liked. After we did this three times, the Nazis in January 1943 mobilized several divisions and surrounded the entire Osipovichi zone. We had to cross the Berezina, go through minefields, go out to Klichev and again return back to the Osipovichi forests, from where the Germans had already removed the encirclement. But in pursuit of us they burned a lot of villages. With people! There were no partisans there; they had to account for something.

In the summer I received the rank of colonel as a brigade commander. Throughout 1943 he fought south of Bobruisk, until the 65th Army of General Pavel Ivanovich Batov arrived in December. I already had three detachments, about two thousand fighters. I handed over my brigade to him, and me and a hundred fighters, on the orders of Ponomarenko, were transferred to Gomel to guard the government. It was January 1944. Then he received the title of Hero.

- When did you first come into contact with sports?

On the eve of Operation Bagration, I was appointed secretary for military physical training. Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus. And in August 1945, he was already preparing a parade of athletes in Moscow and opening the procession of the Belarusian delegation. We walked in white woolen suits and medals. All problems were solved together with the chairman of the committee on physical education and sports, Savelyev. The goal was to bring the physical education movement to a million people. And we dealt with it. We started building sites and stadiums, and the industrial cooperatives especially helped us. After the Higher Party School, he worked in an industrial cooperative, this is Spartak. Bobkov Anatoly Lukich was the chairman. The first stadiums appeared at Spartak. We've set up a lot! Woohoo! The same Philharmonic was built as a palace of culture for industrial cooperation. Then she was taken away from us. Residential buildings on Frunze and Sverdlov streets, the building of the National Bank from Lenin Street, on Komsomolskaya, near the Pobeda cinema, on Sukhoi. “Spartak” was a rich organization!

It was necessary to build in the post-war years. In 1944, only 15 percent of pre-war buildings remained in Minsk. Apart from the House of Officers and the House of Government, almost everything else was in ruins! There was a crater about 50 meters between the Komsomol Central Committee and the Party Central Committee. We filled it up for several weeks.

You spent 20 years as chairman of the Sports Committee of the BSSR. You managed to bring Belarusian sport to the international and high Olympic orbit...

When they honored me, they also said that we seemed to have done a lot and turned the world upside down. Nothing of the kind: we were doing the most ordinary work. They restored what had been destroyed and tried to rebuild something. If before the war we were content with just a playground, then after that we were satisfied with a stadium, even if it was not good enough. We turned out to be a ruined republic: there were no coaches or athletes. Therefore, I counted on help from Russia and other republics. I was sometimes scolded at the board of the USSR Sports Committee for attracting coaches to us. I asked the government: provide apartments so that newcomers can gain a foothold.

- And the government cooperated?

It was going on, and very actively. The same Flocks. The Germans built dugouts there and stored ammunition. We prepared for the 1945 parade there. I reasoned this way: if we have a good base, they will come to us from other republics. They come to the training camp, make contacts, some, feeling a good attitude, will stay. We also built Raubichi, an equestrian school in Ratomka, and the Urozhaya base on the Minsk Sea. Our bases attracted athletes and coaches from other republics of the USSR, and later Germans and Poles to training camps... Through contacts we enriched ourselves professionally and spiritually. We needed the same capital's Sports Palace to host prestigious competitions...

- ... And the European Championship-66 in Greco-Roman wrestling was held in Minsk a year after its opening.

At that time, the school gym 9x18 was already considered good. And we began to agitate the Ministry of Education to build halls measuring 18x36 in at least some schools. Three halls were built, the State Audit Office seized and punished the directors for violating regulations. But we had very good leadership. And Patolichev, and Mazurov, and Masherov, and in the government - Tikhon Yakovlevich Kiselev - believed that without physical education and sports there is no future. When they discussed the construction of the Sports Palace, they asked me: “How much do you need?” - “At least five million.” “We don’t have that kind of money, no one in Moscow will allow such an object.” Moscow knew that we were building for a million. And this is only half of the Palace. It cost four million rubles. We never paid the builders one million. “Raubichi” was also built, the real cost of which was five million. They built a hotel and invested a million. But how can you accept a hotel if it doesn’t have a boiler room? And she was listed separately with us. They ask: why did you build the boiler room? It was impossible to carry out these objects together according to the documents. A shooting range was built separately. This is how we built - hard.

- Probably, the personal intervention of the top officials of the republic was required...

I remember Pyotr Mironovich helped with the football fields near Drozdy. I saw in Holland that such a small country has a complex of one hundred fields! I told Masherov. He was surprised: “What are you talking about! At least have a dozen!” Then he came to Holland himself. He comes: “We will build! But maybe we don’t need that much?” Where the arena is built today, there was supposed to be a second stage of football fields.

Once he asked to develop several options for pools. They developed - with one bathroom, with two, with two and one for diving. 67 large enterprises took up construction. But the cost of operation is greater than the cost of the pool itself. They built it and started calling: “Viktor Ilyich, take the pool, I’ll give it to you for free!” - “No, you built it, you exploit it!”

In the capitalist world, large enterprises create powerful sports complexes so that workers and employees have the opportunity to play sports and gain strength. In this regard, we have come to the forefront in comparison with other republics of the Union. I just happened to be in the bullies.

-You didn’t travel abroad in vain...

I saw an Olympic base near Paris not made of metal structures, but of laminated wood. The arena is 100 meters wide and 150 or 200 meters long. I told Pyotr Mironovich. He replied that we have a factory in Gomel that produces “sticks” for cowsheds. “Putters” are supports. True, 18 meters. This means that it is only 36 meters wide. I arrived at the Gomel plant, they were surprised: we start making a “stick” - it crumbles. I invited the Gomel residents to go to Paris at the expense of the Sports Committee. They went and said: their glue and wood are worse, but the technology! As soon as the board comes out from under the jointer, it must be glued immediately, then it will set firmly. And after 15 minutes the board becomes lumpy and then will definitely crumble. That's the problem! The French bend the “stick” at the desired angle; they have pressure gauges that determine the tension force. But here we do it manually: one drove it to the limit, the other didn’t turn it enough. Even more interesting: a metal roof goes down in 15 minutes during a fire. Glued, wooden - for 45. It burns, but does not bend.

- How did the “Labor Reserves” complex burn down on Kalinovsky?

The perpetrators should be imprisoned, because no one was held accountable for this. The fire extinguishing system there was perfect. But when they built it, the firefighters didn’t want to accept it without money. And the owners decided: we ourselves have a mustache, but we didn’t understand the system. When it caught fire, no one knew where to open anything. The firefighters arrived and, instead of opening the extinguishing system, they began to draw water a kilometer away, although it was within the perimeter! Even if they called me, I would say what needs to be done.

- Have you yourself tried to delve into the intricacies of construction technologies?

If you want to build efficiently, you must be savvy in this matter. I had full contact with the designers. Returning from abroad, he told them about new products: what he saw, how and what was being done. And he even brought some drawings. For example, for the arena in Stayki - from Holland. They didn’t correct it one iota, but they hung up their own sign. “Raubichi” was copied from a German project and from the Czech Tatra Mountains - I brought it from there and from there. The water sports complex was brought from Hungary and given to Ladygina. She modernized it a little. There the roof was a platform for spectators of the outdoor pool. And we built an open one so that people would come to swim and sunbathe.

Once I bought six inflatable playpens. They didn't let me put it in! According to our technology, only playpens with an arch are provided. I explain to them: there is different pressure outside and inside, he can’t fall. No, give me the arch! I say: all over the world they build without arches. I went to Moscow and proved it to Gosstroy. They came to the end: we need to change GOST... I had to sell it!

Or they were building a dormitory in Stayki. I persuaded the builders to put film under the showers instead of roofing felt, as they do in Europe. They disagreed for a long time - it’s not supposed to! Now not a single shower on the floors leaks. They began to build a hotel in Raubichi. The designers prayed: let's level the site on the slope. “No,” I say, “don’t disturb the curves of the soil, it must fit into the landscape.” Or they wanted to destroy the church, but they didn’t allow it. He urged the Ministry of Culture to organize a museum there. They tried to blow it up three times, but I survived. It still exists today.

A leader who wants to build must not leave the site. So that the builders do not forget that he knows everything, he can tell him that he cannot be fooled. Otherwise, you won’t accept the object; you won’t know how much or what you stole.

- Were the builders afraid of you?

No, they worked with me with pleasure, it’s easy to change the project with me and solve their problems. For example, a construction site needs to be removed. I did a collection for students for three or four days. And the builders added this volume to themselves, their salaries were better, and my project was built faster. The engineers at the construction of “Flocks” asked: “Viktor Ilyich, give our families a house for the summer.” Yes, they worked differently after that! You have to love your job and pay attention to all the details.

- You had to get through a lot of things in Moscow.

There were moments. But usually I found ways here in Minsk. I also went to Moscow - to the State Planning Committee, to the State Construction Committee, to the Ministry of Finance. I asked our Minister of Finance for several units for the administration of the Sports Committee and regional committees. He invited me to go with him to Moscow. There, Deputy Minister Ryabova says: I’m not against it, but as soon as they find out in other republics, I’ll have to allow everyone ten units. And this is already 160 - an entire ministry. But she suggested how to solve this problem in a different way.

Or once he complained to Pyotr Mironovich about the Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the BSSR Kokhonov: they say, he is bypassing us, he gave us one million rubles instead of two. Masherov called us. Kokhonov retorted: “The plan for this year has been drawn up. But I will be in Moscow and will raise the question there. We’ll find a million for Liventsev.” We go out, and Kokhonov tells me: “Did you want shish?” I don't have this million. And I won’t ask the question, there are more serious things. And I’ll tell Masherov: they didn’t give anything. But next year I will give you this million. This is science for you: do not go to higher authorities. Go to those who directly decide the issues and convince them!”

- So, don’t snitch on your neighbor?

It's more complicated here. Each person sees the world and his work only with his own eyes. When I came to the sports committee, I said: “I’m not an athlete, not a professional in sports, I don’t understand anything about it. I watch football, gymnastics, fencing, I enjoy it, but I’m not able to understand the intricacies of the sport. Therefore, I will help you solve housing issues, build facilities, equip stadiums, halls, and medical equipment. But I will completely trust my deputies. And to those who teach specific disciplines. Let's say someone is responsible for holding a tournament: how he will organize it does not interest me. Let the public raise their voices, ask for help from friends, God knows who else. But if you fail, leave!

- How were responsibilities distributed among your deputies?

Bokun was responsible for summer sports, Sazanovich - for winter sports, Bobkov - for game sports. Where medals were won, Bokun had it all. Even his wife Larisa came to complain about him that he was selecting athletes. But he felt what had to be done for the athlete to become a high-ranking champion. I saw him work at the Olympic Games. And he said: there will be no Bokun, there will be no fencing. And so it happened. All the coaches stayed, but there were no results. Or take Mirsky. Without any special education, but with the talent of training wrestlers. Today the Bear cannot do this! He's a great athlete, but he can't do it as a coach. I think that Mirsky would have made his son an Olympic champion long ago.

An Olympic coach, as a rule, is a special person, with a special character and approach. If you make him the same as everyone else, obedient, he will die. Sometimes they are uncontrollable, sometimes they do stupid things. But there is no need to punish them. I had to stand up for such people more than once, but I won’t name names.

There was a case. The coach was preparing the team for the World Cup. The last day of training remains. He didn’t feed the team that day, but stocked them with caviar and chocolate. Not for myself - for the athletes. I just knew that at training camps an athlete is fed for 15 rubles a day, and on a business trip abroad - for three rubles. He was caught by state control. This one needs to be protected, proven that he did everything in good conscience. It turned out that he was also spending from his own pocket.

Or they gave Bokun and Sazanovich a salary allowance. The Sports Palace had to be quickly prepared for some important tournament. Under normal conditions this was done in three days. But if you invite a company of soldiers, they can handle it overnight. The company commander sent soldiers with the condition that the next day they would be allowed to watch the competition for free. People's control demanded an explanation: on what basis was a large group of people allowed into a paid event for free? It was necessary to pay the soldiers, issue them, and then turn them into tickets. What company commander would give soldiers on such conditions?!

-Have you sometimes bypassed by-laws when they contradicted the logic of life?

Law is law. It cannot be violated. You need to know what can be violated and what cannot be violated under any circumstances. But if you violate, you take responsibility and must be ready to respond.

-Did you have to answer?

Certainly. Before the government, state control and people's control. Here we have the World Championship. Among the guests there are many coaches and leaders whom I know from the Olympic Games and other competitions. I have to accept them as a human being. I ask the cashier to give me a thousand rubles, and I spend it on hospitality. Vacation is coming. I will pay off the amount I took with the required bonuses. And it happened that my deputies and I passed the hat around in a circle, but only among the members of the board. This did not concern the device. If I was caught by people’s control, they immediately reported to the top officials that Liventsev had gotten into the cash register and there was a “tail hanging behind him.” They made an estimate. I always went with these plans. They were taken off for me only before the elections to the Supreme Council. And then they made new ones. I explained more than once to Masherov and Kiselev what happened and how it happened.

- Was there a problem of people not allowed to travel?

Dynamo Minsk footballer Juan Usatorre was not allowed to go to Turkey or Iran: he’s a Spaniard, what if he stays abroad? I went to ask for him. They let me in and everything was fine.

Such things happened to Oleg Karavaev. After the competition, I had to fly home straight away from Japan. And athletes have some amount of pocket money. And Oleg bought 20 nylon shirts for $20 at a dollar apiece, and let it slip on the plane. He was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and they began to find out where he was taking them. He answered truthfully: he sold five shirts, gave five... He immediately became restricted from traveling abroad. He didn’t even know this until the next trip. And I didn't know. I had to go to the administrative department, talk, tell who this person was and how it happened. Settled. And he is happy, and so am I.

Sport is a complicated thing. In my time, 60 people attended training camps in Minsk every day. And these are all young people 15-25 years old, who need to be watched and watched. We need to manage them and trust them, especially the coaches.

- Did you have any favorites?

- What sport did you prefer?

Fencing, wrestling and shooting.

- What about football?

I knew that I could burn for him.

- In 1965, did you go to the Cup final in Moscow?

Yes, but we could only win by chance. Like hockey at the Olympics.

- You have been to many Olympics...

From 1960 to 1980 - for everyone. The most unsuccessful for Belarusians was Tokyo-64, the most successful was Munich-72. There, in my opinion, they won 17 gold medals, and there were 25 in total. But the top officials of the party and government never set the task for me to win a certain number of medals. Bokun, Sazanovich, and I sat and figured out where we could get the medals. Our forecast was always written on my closet before leaving. Then they came back and compared: they did it, they didn’t do it. But in no case should you plan rigidly! The Olympics are different, and athletes are influenced by a thousand factors. I have always fought for us to have a research institute. Today you can’t make an athlete without science. It requires enormous attention.

- Did you already have a pharmacological problem at your age?

Yes, the trainers tried it on themselves. Either he takes off, or he is a wreck.

- The current level of development of Belarusian sports...

Good, but I believe that until a new generation of coaches comes, nothing will happen. You can't go out with old stuff. The training workshop is old and needs to be updated. Otherwise there will be trouble.

- How do you yourself manage to maintain the vigor and logic inherent in much younger people at your age?

We must live, not vegetate! Everything you see in the kitchen was made by my hands: both the furniture and the tiles. And at the dacha I built everything myself and continue to make things.

(2009-09-28 ) (91 years old) A place of death Affiliation

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Biography

1937 - graduated from the 2nd year of the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute.
1937-1938 - teacher at a secondary school in Svoboda (now Liski).
1938-1939 - service in the 20th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Division, then in the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 56th Infantry Division as deputy political instructor of the regimental battery.
1939 - participation in the campaign to Western Belarus.
1939-1940 - participant in the Soviet-Finnish war as a political instructor of a mortar company.
1941 - graduated from the Grodno Military-Political School.
1941 - from the first day of the war, he participated in defensive battles on the territory of modern Grodno and Brest regions. Finding himself surrounded, in the occupied city of Bobruisk he created an underground group, and then a large partisan detachment (752nd), becoming its commander.
1943 - Liventsev’s detachment, by order of the Central Headquarters of the partisan movement, was transformed into the 1st Bobruisk Partisan Brigade, which operated on the territory of modern Mogilev and Gomel regions of Belarus. On December 25, 1943, near the village of Parichi, the partisans met with Soviet military intelligence, then the brigade held the defense on the front for several days.
1944-1950 - secretary, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus.
1952 - graduated from the party school under the Central Committee of the CPB.
1955 - graduated.
1958-1978 - Chairman of the Committee on Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the BSSR.
1978-1986 - Managing Director of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus.

He died on September 28, 2009, at the age of 92. He was buried at the Eastern Cemetery in Minsk.

A street is named after the Hero in the city of Bobruisk (street named after Liventsev Viktor Ilyich, city) and in. Minsk (Viktor Liventsev Street, 2010).

Awards

Gold Star Medal - January 1, 1944 (medal no. 2631).
Order of Lenin (twice).
Order of the Red Banner (twice).
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (twice).
Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III degree.
Medals.

book author

Partisan region. 1983.

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Literature

Heroes of the Soviet Union. Brief biographical dictionary. - T. 1. - M.: Voenizdat, 1987.
National struggle in Belarus: In 3 volumes - Minsk: Belarus, 1984.
Kuleshov A. P. All new horizons [About V.I. Liventsev]. - M.: Physical culture and sport, 1975. - 215 p. - (Hearts given to sports).

Excerpt characterizing Liventsev, Viktor Ilyich

– You yourself know the answer to this question, Isidora... But you won’t give up, even if such a cruel truth scares you? You are a Warrior and you will remain one. Otherwise, you would have betrayed yourself, and the meaning of life would have been lost forever to you. We are what we ARE. And no matter how hard we try to change, our core (or our foundation) will still remain the same as our ESSENCE truly is. After all, if a person is still “blind”, he still has hope of regaining his sight one day, right? Or if his brain is still asleep, he may still wake up someday. But if a person is essentially “rotten”, then no matter how good he tries to be, his rotten soul still creeps out one fine day... and kills any attempt he makes to look better. But if a Man is truly honest and brave, neither the fear of pain nor the most evil threats will break him, since his soul, his ESSENCE, will forever remain as brave and as pure, no matter how mercilessly and cruelly he suffers. But his whole trouble and weakness is that since this Man is truly Pure, he cannot see betrayal and meanness even before it becomes obvious, and when it is not too late to do anything... He cannot do this provide for, since these low feelings are completely absent in him. Therefore, the brightest and bravest people on Earth will always die, Isidora. And this will continue until EVERY earthly person sees the light and understands that life is not given for nothing, that we must fight for beauty, and that the Earth will not become better until he fills it with his goodness and decorates it with his work, no matter how small or insignificant it may be.

But as I already told you, Isidora, you will have to wait for this for a very long time, because for now a person thinks only about his personal well-being, without even thinking about why he came to Earth, why he was born on it... For every LIFE , no matter how insignificant it may seem, comes to Earth for a specific purpose. For the most part - to make our common HOME better and happier, more powerful and wiser.
“Do you think the average person will ever be interested in the common good?” After all, many people completely lack this concept. How to teach them, North?..
– This cannot be taught, Isidora. People must have a need for Light, a need for Good. They themselves must want change. For what is given by force, a person instinctively tries to quickly reject, without even trying to understand anything. But we digress, Isidora. Do you want me to continue the story of Radomir and Magdalena?
I nodded affirmatively, deeply regretting in my heart that I couldn’t have a conversation with him so simply and calmly, without worrying about the last minutes of my crippled life allotted to me by fate and without thinking with horror about the misfortune looming over Anna...
– The Bible writes a lot about John the Baptist. Was he truly with Radomir and the Knights of the Temple? His image is so amazingly good that it sometimes made one doubt whether John was the real figure? Can you answer, North?
North smiled warmly, apparently remembering something very pleasant and dear to him...
– John was wise and kind, like a big warm sun... He was a father to everyone who walked with him, their teacher and friend... He was valued, obeyed and loved. But he was never the young and amazingly handsome young man that artists usually painted him as. John at that time was already an elderly sorcerer, but still very strong and persistent. Gray-haired and tall, he looked more like a mighty epic warrior than an amazingly handsome and gentle young man. He wore very long hair, as did everyone else who was with Radomir.

It was Radan, he was truly extraordinarily handsome. He, like Radomir, lived in Meteora from an early age, next to his mother, Sorceress Maria. Remember, Isidora, how many paintings there are in which Mary is painted with two, almost the same age, babies. For some reason, all the famous artists painted them, perhaps without even understanding WHO their brush really depicted... And what is most interesting is that it is Radan that Maria looks at in all these paintings. Apparently even then, while still a baby, Radan was already as cheerful and attractive as he remained throughout his short life...

And yet... even if the artists painted John in these paintings, then how could that same John have aged so monstrously by the time of his execution, carried out at the request of the capricious Salome?.. After all, according to the Bible, this happened even before the crucifixion Christ, which means that John should have been no more than thirty-four years old at that time! How did he turn from a girlishly handsome, golden-haired young man into an old and completely unattractive Jew?!

- So the Magus John did not die, Sever? – I asked joyfully. – Or did he die in another way?..
“Unfortunately, the real John really had his head cut off, Isidora, but this did not happen due to the evil will of a capricious spoiled woman. The cause of his death was the betrayal of a Jewish “friend” whom he trusted and in whose house he lived for several years...
- But how come he didn’t feel it? How did you not see what kind of “friend” this was?! – I was indignant.
– It’s probably impossible to suspect every person, Isidora... I think it was already difficult enough for them to trust someone, because they all had to somehow adapt and live in that foreign, unfamiliar country, don’t forget that. Therefore, from the greater and lesser evils, they apparently tried to choose the lesser. But it’s impossible to predict everything, you know this very well, Isidora... The death of Magus John occurred after the crucifixion of Radomir. He was poisoned by a Jew, in whose house John was living at that time along with the family of the deceased Jesus. One evening, when the whole house was already asleep, the owner, talking with John, presented him with his favorite tea mixed with a strong herbal poison... The next morning, no one was even able to understand what had happened. According to the owner, John simply instantly fell asleep, and never woke up again... His body was found in the morning in his bloody bed with... a severed head... According to the same owner, the Jews were very afraid of John, because they considered him an unsurpassed magician. And to be sure that he would never rise again, they beheaded him. John’s head was later bought (!!!) from them and taken with them by the Knights of the Temple, managing to preserve it and bring it to the Valley of the Magi, in order to thus give John at least such a small, but worthy and deserved respect, without allowing the Jews to simply mock him, performing some of his magical rituals. From then on, John's head was always with them, wherever they were. And for this same head, two hundred years later, the Knights of the Temple were accused of criminal worship of the Devil... You remember the last “case of the Templars” (Knights of the Temple), don’t you, Isidora? It was there that they were accused of worshiping a “talking head”, which infuriated the entire church clergy.