During the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ...

of 1941–1945, a Soviet partisan united formation (1941–1944) ( be, партызанскае злучэнне united formation), also called a military-operational group or a centre ( be, ваенна-аператыўная група (ВАГ)), became one of the organisational forms which grouped together various

Soviet partisan Soviet partisans were members of resistance movements that fought a guerrilla war against Axis forces during World War II in the Soviet Union, the previously Soviet-occupied territories of interwar Poland in 1941–45 and eastern Finland. The ...

units. A united formation linked several of the smaller partisan units - partisan brigades or

regiments A regiment is a military unit. Its role and size varies markedly, depending on the country, service and/or a specialisation. In Medieval Europe, the term "regiment" denoted any large body of front-line soldiers, recruited or conscripted ...

or detachments - with a view to conducting wide-scale and center-coordinated military operations in the rear of occupying Axis forces. On the territory of the BSSRWithin the 1941 borders. about 40 such units developed in the period 1941 to 1944, mostly in 1943. The higher-level Soviet ruling bodies - the

Headquarters of the Partisan Movement The Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (russian: Центральный штаб партизанского движения (ЦШПД), Tsentral'nyj shtab partizanskovo dvizheniya (TsShPD)) was the central organ of military control of ...

, the

Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement The Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (russian: Центральный штаб партизанского движения (ЦШПД), Tsentral'nyj shtab partizanskovo dvizheniya (TsShPD)) was the central organ of military control of ...

, and underground Province, Inter-District and District Committees of the Communist Party - organised units of this kind. Usually, local Communist leaders or higher

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...

officers took command, and the staffs of the respective united formations carried out management functions.

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Sources

* А.Л. Манаенкаў. Партызанскае злучэнне ў Вялікую Айчынную вайну // Беларуская энцыклапедыя: У 18 т. Т. 12. — Мінск: БелЭн, 2001. — 560 с. pp. 113–114. (т.12). The source x references: Беларусь у Вялікай Айчыннай вайне 1941—1945: Энцыкл. Мн., 1990. С. 398. {{DEFAULTSORT:Soviet partisan united formation 1941-1944 Soviet partisans