Soviet partisan regiment (1941–1944) ( be, партызанскі полк), was the organisational form of the
Soviet partisan units. On the BSSR territory
[As in the 1941 borders.] it was used rarely.
The numerical and weapons complement and the
chain of command of the partisan regiment were basically the same as of the
partisan brigade
The partisan brigade was the main organisational form of the Soviet partisan units during World War II. Partisan brigades were active from shortly after Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 through the end of the war in 1945.
On the BSSR territory, t ...
, with the regiment structure comprising battalions, companies, platoons and sections. The regiment maintained staff, 1 or 2 diversionist platoons, logistics units. The artillery and heavy machine guns could be united in the heavy weapons company or distributed to the companies as the fourth fire platoons. Some of the regiments maintained hospitals, airstrips or airdrop zones.
On the BSSR territory
partisan regiments were used rarely (14 regiments, of them 11 in the structures of the
military-operational groups and 3 separately).
After the joining with the Red Army, the
Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement re-classified its partisan regiments as brigades.
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Sources
*А.Л. Манаенкаў. Партызанскі полк у Вялікую Айчынную вайну // Беларуская энцыклапедыя: У 18 т. Т. 12. — Мінск: БелЭн, 2001. — 560 с. p. 132—133. (т.12). The source references: Беларусь у Вялікай Айчыннай вайне 1941—1945: Энцыкл. Мн., 1990. С. 476—479.
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