Daniil Vustavkin Member of the underground organization 'Young Guard'. Date of Birth: 18.04.1902 Country: Ukraine

Biography of Daniil Vyustavkin

Daniil Sergeyevich Vyustavkin was born on April 18, 1902, in the village of Studinoye in the Oryol region, into a peasant family. In 1914, he enrolled in a rural school, but his education was interrupted by the Civil War. He began working as an apprentice electrician at the Voronezh Agricultural Institute.

From 1924 to 1926, Daniil Sergeyevich served in the Red Army as a member of the Worker-Peasant Red Army in a separate Moscow electro-battalion. It was during this time that he joined the Komsomol in 1924. After demobilization, he worked as an electrician at the Voronezh Oil Plant. In January 1927, he moved to the city of Krasnodon and found employment as an electrician at Mine No. 5.

In December of the same year, the Lugansk District Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) admitted Daniil S. Vyustavkin into the ranks of the communist party. For several years, he worked as an electrosesaler at mines and as a mechanic in the mine rescue team. In 1936, he became the deputy chairman of the Krasnodon City Council, and from 1938, he worked as a procurement agent at Smeshtorg.

On July 4, 1941, Vyustavkin was conscripted into the army as part of the party recruitment. He was sent to defend Kiev after training. Initially, their defense was on the Irpen River, and then their battalion (a separate machine gun battalion) was transferred to the area of Goloseevsky Forest. Those who were recruited into the army through party recruitment were not only soldiers but also political instructors," recalls I. S. Prikhodko, a comrade of Daniil Sergeyevich.

In September 1941, the battalion was surrounded. Vyustavkin was wounded and captured near Belaya Tserkov. However, he managed to escape and make his way back to Krasnodon. During the occupation, Vyustavkin, on the recommendation of underground communist F. P. Lyutikov, found work as a saboteur in the electromechanical workshops. He carried out partisan decisions, organized sabotage in the workshops, conducted anti-fascist agitation among the workers, informed them about the situation on the front lines, and maintained contact with the participants of the youth underground movement in the town of Krasnodon. In November 1942, under his direction, underground members Zhenya Kiykova and Nina Startseva disabled the telephone communication system.

Arrested in early January 1943, Vyustavkin endured severe torture before being thrown into a mine shaft at Mine No. 5. He was buried in a mass grave for heroes in the central square of Krasnodon. Daniil Sergeyevich Vyustavkin was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.