Died Soviet party and statesman Alexander Sloboda

November 14, MINSK. The Soviet party and statesman Alexander Ivanovich Sloboda has died, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans.

As it became known, Alexander Ivanovich died today. Other details have not yet been announced.

Alexander Ivanovich Sloboda was born on August 27, 1920 in the village of Dubrovy (now Verkhnedvinsky district, Vitebsk region).

In 1937 he began working as a tractor driver. In September 1940, Sloboda was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He served in the Volga Military District as a Red Army soldier of the 27th separate reconnaissance battalion of the 53rd rifle division. He participated in the battles on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from June 25, 1941, when he took part in his first battle on the Drut River near Belynichi. He participated in the battles on the Buinichsky field, where he knocked out two tanks, as well as in the defense of Mogilev. For fights in Belarus he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Together with a unit, he was surrounded, from which he left as part of his battalion in the Smolensk region. As part of the 43rd Army, as an assistant platoon commander, he took part in defensive battles near Vyazma, Maloyaroslavets and Podolsk, and then in a counteroffensive near Moscow.

In 1942 he joined the ranks of the CPSU (b). In the summer of 1942 he was wounded, after which he was treated in a hospital in Moscow. Then he was sent to the Kalinin Front, where he was the commander of a company of submachine gunners in the 5th Guards Division.

In early December 1942, he was sent behind enemy lines to the Vitebsk region, where he became the commander of detachment No. 3 of the partisan brigade named after Lenin Komsomol. The detachment was stationed in the village of Staikovo and operated in the Surazh and Gorodok regions. Shortly before the liberation of the area by the Red Army, Sloboda was seriously wounded in battle and evacuated by plane to the mainland.

During the occupation, the parents were shot by the Nazis.

After treatment in 1944, Alexander Ivanovich Sloboda was elected secretary of the Gomel regional committee of the Komsomol, and in 1946 he was sent to study at the Higher Party School, after which from 1948 to 1952 he worked as secretary of the Bobruisk regional committee of the Komsomol, from 1952 to 1959 - second secretary Slutsk district party committee, from 1959 to 1961 - chairman of the Slutsk district executive committee, and in 1961 he was elected to the post of first secretary of the Luban district party committee.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 22, 1966, for the successes achieved in the development of animal husbandry, the increase in the production of MEAT, MILK, eggs, wool and other products, Alexander Ivanovich Sloboda was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle medal.

In 1970 he was appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the Republican Committee of People's Control of the BSSR, and in 1985 he headed the Minsk Regional Council of Veterans.

Deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR (1963-1967), deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus (1990-1994), candidate member of the Central Committee of the CPB (1966-1971).

Member of the Victory Parade in Moscow (1995, 2000, 2005).