Sava Kovačević
Sava Kovačević (born January 25, 1905 in Nudo , Montenegro , † June 13, 1943 ) was a Yugoslav partisan , folk hero , and commander of the 3rd Storm Division of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army in World War II .
Childhood and Life until 1925
He spent all of his childhood and youth in his native Nudo, a village in the Lastva valley, which borders the high region of the Bijela gora, and attended elementary school in the neighboring village of Zaslap. Due to financial problems he was denied further educational opportunities and so he began to occupy himself with agriculture. As an adult he got a job at the forest company "Ombla" in Bijela gora . The company owned by a British entrepreneur, which made the vast forests of the Bijela gora usable by means of a narrow-gauge railway and a cable car, had to file for bankruptcy at the beginning of the global economic crisis. He then moved to Belgrade and worked on the construction of the new Sava Bridge, later became a forest worker again and finally worked as a day laborer .
Life from 1925
Kovačević's political commitment made itself felt in his early youth. He was particularly influenced by his older brother and revolutionary Nikola Kovačević and trained early on in the theoretical and cultural sense through the works of Karl Marx . In 1925 he became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He died in 1943 in the Battle of the Sutjeska .
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| SURNAME | Kovačević, Sava |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav partisan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nudo , Montenegro |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1943 |