During the
Great Patriotic War 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 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
BSSR[Within 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
Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement, 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 officers took command, and the staffs of the respective united formations carried out management functions.
Notes
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.
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