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 - Soviet partisan brigade 1941-1944, partisan brigades or Soviet partisan regiment 1941-1944, regiments or Soviet partisan detachment 1941-1944, detachments - with a view to conducting wide-scale and center-coordinated military operations in the rear of occupying Axis powers , Axis forces. On the territory of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic , 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 Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement, and underground Oblasts of the Soviet Union , Province, Inter-District and Raion , District Committees of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , Communist Party - organised units of this kind. Usually, local Communist leadership , leaders or higher Red Army officers took command, and the staffs of the respective united formations carried out management functions.

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