Minay Shmyryov

Minay Shmyryov
Shmyryov on a 1967 Soviet stamp
Native name	Мінай Піліпавіч Шмыроў
Born	(1891-12-23)23 December 1891 Punishche [be], Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus)
Died	3 September 1964(1964-09-03) (aged 72)
Allegiance	Russian Empire  Russian SFSR  Soviet Union
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army Soviet partisans
Years of service	1917–1923 1941–1944
Battles / wars	World War I Russian Civil War World War II Belarusian resistance

Minay Filippovich Shmyryov (Belarusian: Міна́й Пілі́павіч Шмыро́ў, romanized: Minaj Pilipavič Šmyroŭ, Russian: Мина́й Фили́ппович Шмырёв; 23 December 1891 – 3 September 1964), also transliterated as Minay Shmyrev and Minai Shmyrev, was one of the leaders of the Belarusian partisan resistance against the German occupation during World War II.

Shmyryov was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union for his wartime role in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1944.^[1]