Yakiv Yakovych Hordiyenko, also Yakov Yakovlevich Gordienko (alternatively Romanised as Gordi'yenko; Russian: Яков Яковлевич Гордиенко; 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 into the family of a former sailor Yakiv Hordiyenko of the Imperial Russian battleship Sinop (scrapped by the 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
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