Soviet partisan regiment (1941–1944) ( be, партызанскі полк), was the organisational form of the

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. On the BSSR territoryAs in the 1941 borders. it was used rarely. The numerical and weapons complement and the

chain of command A command hierarchy is a group of people who carry out orders based on others' authority within the group. It can be viewed as part of a power structure, in which it is usually seen as the most vulnerable and also the most powerful part. Milit ...

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, ...

, 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 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 ...

re-classified its partisan regiments as brigades. ----

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Soviet partisan regiment 1941-1944 Soviet partisans