Belarusian Resistance

Combat operations of partisans and resistance fighters in Belarus

Partisan fighters from the brigade named after newspaper Pravda examine the frontline situation on the map. Minsk region. [1942-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-72012)
The Junkers 52 airplane set aflame by Belarusian partisans. Vitebsk region. [1942-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-97104)
Artillerymen of the 1st Belarusian partisan brigade, Vitebsk formation, fire on the enemy. Vitebsk region. [1942-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-71233)
Major General V.Z. Korzh inspects the Chapaev partisan detachment, Pinsk formation, at drill.  Pinsk region. [1942-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-72015
Partisan artillery gun crew at the firing position. Belarus. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-97085)
Secretary of the underground Minsk Party Regional Committee, Major General V.I. Kozlov and his staff. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-87319)
Partisans force a crossing of the river on timber rafts. Belarus. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-23633)
Members of the Ponomarenko partisan detachment, the Budenny brigade, cross over the River Berezina. Pinsk region. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-97059)
Partisans from the Budenny partisan brigade, Pinsk formation, return from combat operation. Pinsk region. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-87377)
Report from the commander of the 118th Police Defence Battalion to the chief of police and the SS in Pleshchenitsy, Borisov district, concerning the fighting with partisans near the villages of Guby and Khatyn.  12 April 1943. Translation from the German. (NARB, f. 510, op. 1, d. 45, l. 120-121)
Secretary of the Minsk Underground Party Regional Committee I.A. Velski, member of the Komsomol Central Committee M.P. Barashkov, secretary of the Minsk Underground Party Regional Committee V.I. Kozlov, and secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee, member of the Minsk Underground Party Regional Committee K.T. Mazurov — discuss an action plan for intensifying partisan activity in the Brest, Bialystok, Baranovichi and Pinsk regions.  Spring 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-71908)
From the partisan intelligence concerning the numerical strength and logistical support of German troops stationed in the districts of Polotsk, Lepel, Nevel and Gomel. May 1943. (NARB, f. 1450, op. 3, d. 21, l. 105)
Report from the headquarters of the partisan brigade "Death to Fascism" to the member of the Belarusian Partisan Movement Staff, Machulsky, concerning the situation in the brigade’s area of action, the numerical strength, deployment and armaments of German garrisons in Borisov, Smolevichi and Logoisk and the neighbouring villages. 1 December 1943. Copy. (NARB, f. 1450, op. 2, d. 27, l. 355-355ob.)
Address by the underground Baranovichi Komsomol Regional Committee calling the young people to intensify combat activities against Nazi occupiers. December 1943. (NARB, 1375-1-5)
Report from the chief of the Parichi district police informing the district commandant that partisans conducted about 400 detonations of railway tracks between the railway stations of Ostankovichi and Zherd. 25 September 1943. (State Archives of Gomel region, 1809-2-5, l.182)
Partisan fighters from the Parkhomenko brigade demount railway tracks in the area of Timkovichi – Slutsk. Minsk region. December 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-71445)
Partisans demounting rails in the area of Orsha.  Vitebsk region. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-33990)
Partisans mine a railway track. Belarus. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-33937)
Partisans mine a bridge. Belarus. [1943-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-33938)
Report from the secretary of the underground Shklov Party Regional Committee, A.V. Bai, and the commander of the Shklov Military Operational Group, Colonel G.A. Kirpich to the chief of the partisan operational group at the Western Front headquarters, A.A. Arkhangelsky, on the results of the combat operation to destroy rails on the Slavnoe-Trotilovo section of the Borisov-Orsha railway on the night of June 20, 1944. 23 June 1944. (NARB, 3500-1-1032)
Partisans from the Pinsk Kotovsky Partisan Formation, Ya. Menkin (right) and Ya. Temyakov make the PPSh-41 submachine guns (Shpagin machine pistols) in an arms workshop. Pinsk region. December 1943. (BGAKFFD, 0-73239)
A partisan airfield on the iced Lake Chervonoe. Zhitkovichi district, Polesie region. 1943. (BGAKFFD, 1-4271)
Belarusian partisans with the captured machine gun in action. [1943-1944]. (BGAKFFD, 0-97078)
Scheme of the defence of the Ponomarenko Partisan Brigade near the village of Kletnoe. Borisov district. 22 January – 18 February 1944. (NARB, f. 3500, op. 4, d. 178, l. 48)
Scheme of the participation of the Partisan Brigade "Death to Fascism" in the destruction of the enemy group in the Smolevichi district (from the brigade’s handwritten chronicle). 8-10 July 1944. (NARB, 3500-4-165a, l.92)
Report from the commander of the Pinsk Partisan Formation, V.Z. Korzh, to the chief of the Belarusian Partisan Movement Staff, P.Z. Kalinin, on the combat operations of the brigades on the enemy’s railway communications and their cooperation with Soviet troops in the period between June 30 and July 15, 1944.  27 July 1944. (NARB, 4117-1-8, l.49)