The solemn ceremony of opening a memorial plaque to a resident of the Soviet intelligence of the Primorsky Separate Army, a member of the Feodosia resistance, Asya Arkadyevna Ametova, took place the other day at number 13 of the street. Pimenov.
In attendance were: the first secretary of the Committee of the Republican Crimean branch of the Communist Party “Communists of Russia” Alexander Turov, on whose initiative and at whose expense a memorial panel was made, leaders of the resort town, representatives of public organizations , Students.
As the press service of the city administration told the newspaper “The Eastern Herald in Crimea”, young people enthusiastically listened to the stories of local historians about a distant time, when the whole country stood up in defense of the fatherland against the Nazis. On the territory of Feodosia, the State Security Committee of the USSR created a group under the code name “Bolyan”. The AAs were charged with directing it. Ametova (née Bolyan) – a Crimean NKVD dentist. For underground work, Asya rented an apartment from Maria Chopina. Having obtained a patent of private practice, she opened a dental practice, where she received patients. The group collected information about the places of accumulation of enemy units, the location of batteries, the headquarters, the system of fortifications of the Nazis in Feodosia and transmitted them to the “mainland”.
Asya Ametova also received a personal task – to establish contacts with the voluntary national battalions of the south-eastern Crimea, consisting of former prisoners of war. They were well armed, used by the Nazis to guard strategic installations such as the railway, the coastline, military installations in the rear, thus representing great interest for the Soviet command. So, by pulling teeth and putting fillings, the dentist learned secret information, and also managed to establish contact with the leaders of the Azerbaijani formations who wanted to leave the Germans for the Crimean partisans. But they were betrayed by one of their own. The brave resident was also arrested. After being beaten and tortured by the Gestapo, Asya was shot on April 11, 1944 in the Krasny State Farm concentration camp. She was buried in the village of Dubki, which few people knew. And it is only these days that his feat is immortalized.
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