Day of Partisan Glory of Ukraine (22/09)

Day of Partisan Glory of Ukraine (Ukrainian. «Partisan Slavi» Day) is celebrated in the country annually on September 22.

This holiday was established in 2001 by Decree of the President of Ukraine, in honor of the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the underground guerrilla movement in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War, and is celebrated as a tribute of popular respect to those who fought the fascists in the deep rear during harsh wartime enemy, sparing neither strength nor life itself.

6,200 partisan detachments and underground groups, which numbered about a million people, inflicted significant losses on Hitler’s troops in the occupied territory, contributing to the advance of units and formations of the Soviet Army to the west.

For the courage and heroism shown in the fight against the enemy, 200 thousand partisans and underground fighters were awarded orders and medals, 223 of them received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Traditionally, various ceremonial and commemorative events take place on this day.

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