Yakiv Hordiyenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 16-Apr-1925
Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 30-Jul-1942
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Yakiv Hordiyenko
- Yakiv Yakovych Hordiyenko, also Yakov Yakovlevich Gordienko (alternatively Romanised as Gordi'yenko; Russian: ???? ????????? ?????????; April 26, 1925 – July 30, 1942) was a Soviet partisan from Ukraine.
- He was leading youth wing of Odessa resistance group led by Molodtsov-Badayev and operated in Odessa catacombs.Yakiv Hordiyenko was born in the family of a former sailor Yakiv Hordiyenko of the Imperial Russian battleship Sinop (scrapped by Soviets in 1922).
- In 1941 he completed the ninth year of secondary school, then studied at the Navy specialized secondary school (Odessa).
- He was a member of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.
- In August 1941 he joined the detachment of the NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) captain Molodtsov-Badayev, which was formed to establish sabotage against the Nazis and Romanian invaders.
- First, he was liaison officer in a "flying squad".
- After, he became its leader.
- Under the Nazis, Yakiv Hordiyenko proved a brave partisan, full of cunning and genius.
- Thanks to Yakiv and his group, the Moscow command received valuable information.
- He participated in military operations against the German and Romanian occupation forces. Betrayed by Anton Fedorovych-Boiko, on February 9, 1942, Yakiv, his chief Molodtsov-Badayev and some other members of the partisan group have been captured in the secure apartment.
- From 09.02.1942 to mid-May, Yakiv was imprisoned by the Siguran?a (Romanian security service) and sentenced to death.
- In late July 1942, Yakiv and some of his fellow inmates were taken from the prison to be executed.
- During the trip to the artillery field, Yakiv began singing a revolutionary song.
- The guards shouted in vain to make him stop.
- Finally, one of them hit Yakiv in the head with a shovel and killed him. Yakiv Hordiyenko is buried at the Alley of Glory in Shevchenko Park in Odessa.
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