Fonds of the Partisan units (operational groups, partisan formations, military-operational groups, partisan divisions, partisan brigades, partisan regiments, and partisan detachments)
National Archives of the Republic of Belarus (NARB), 1941 – 1988
Resolutions and instructions of the CC CP(B)B, CHPM, and BHPM on the development of partisan movement, activities of the partisan units, party, komsomol and propaganda work. Orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, commanders, commissars and headquarters’ chiefs of the partisan formations, brigades, regiments and military-operational groups about the combat and sabotage activities, personnel training, political and organizational work, and other issues. Plans of combat operations, political, tactical, combat and drill training, sanitation and medical service; reports on their fulfillment. Reports, analytical surveys, information, correspondence with the command about the combat, sabotage, operational, intelligence and counter-intelligence activities; state of arms and technical equipment; availability of foodstuffs and ammunition; numerical strength, composition and displacement of the partisan units; the partisans killed, injured and being missing; information on moral and political state of the personnel. Schemes of combat operations and garrisons’ dislocation. Intelligence information, radiograms, reports on combat and sabotage acts. Documents on the fascists’ crimes in occupied territories; diaries, record books and registers of the combat and sabotage activities, penalties and incentives; record books of the detachment meetings, political and educational discussions; registers of ammunition, arms, technical equipment and foodstuffs. Operational and investigation files, transcripts of POW interrogations, decisions and sentences of the partisan courts. Lists of the partisan personnel, killed and attested partisans. Historical information (“histories”) on the partisan units.
Operational groups and partisan formations
NARB, 1941 – 1952
Operational partisan group under the Military council of the 4th shock army – fond
4412, 12 items, 1942-1944
Operational group of the CHPM and BHPM in the Polotsk-Lepel partisan zone of Vitebsk
region – fond 3878, 34 items, 1942-1944
Borisov operational center – fond 4079, 6 items, 1942-1944
Headquarters of the Brest partisan formation – fond 3649, 23 items, 1943-1944
Headquarters of the Gomel partisan formation – fond 3940, 30 items, 1942-1944
Headquarters of the Minsk partisan formation – fond 4051, 41 items, 1941-1944
Headquarters of the partisan and shock detachments of Pinsk region – fond 4125, 11 items,
1944
Headquarters of the partisan formation of Pinsk region – fond 4117, 236 items, 1941-1946
Headquarters of the Polesie partisan formation – fond 4139, 34 items, 1942-1944
Headquarters of the South-Pripiat partisan formation – fond 4154, 4 items, 1942-1944
Special formation of the Baranovichi and Minsk region detachments – fond 4452, 1 item,
1942-1944
Partisan formation of the Osipovichi underground regional committee of Mogilev region –
fond 4236, 55 items, 1941-1952.
Military-operational groups
NARB, 1942 – 1944
in Mogilev underground regional committee of the CP(B)B – fond 4226, 42 items,
1942-1944
in Belynichi underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4228,
14 items, 1942-1944
in Bereza underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond
4229, 20 items, 1942-1944
in Bykhov regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4230, 20 items,
1943-1944
in Kirov underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4231, 6
items, 1943-1944
in Krasnopolie underground regional committee of Mogilev region – fond 4234, 3 items,
1942-1943
in Mogilev underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4227, 23
items, 1943-1945
in Shklov underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4239, 40
items, 1942-1944
in Krichev underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4233, 3
items, 1942-1944
in Krugloe underground regional committee of the CP(B)B of Mogilev region – fond 4235, 65
items, 191-1944
in Propoisk underground committee of Mogilev region – fond 4237, 23 items, 1943-1945
in Cherikov underground regional committee of Mogilev region- fond 4238, 3 items,
1943-1944
Headquarters of the Klichev operational center of Mogilev region – fond 4232, 12
items,1942-1943
Partisan divisions
NARB, 1942 – 1943
Minsk region
V.I. Chapaev Partisan division – fond 4090, 1 item, 1942-1943
Partisan brigades
NARB, 1941 – 1975
Baranovichi region
“25 let BSSR” (25 years of the BSSR) – fond 4832, 1 item, 1943-1945
“Za Sovetskuiu Belarus” (For the Soviet Belarus) – fond 3625, 16 items,
1942-1944
“Komsomolets” – fond 4448, 6 items, 1942-1944
“Leninskaia” – fond 3613, 32 items, 1942-1944
“Pervomaiskaia” – fond 3610, 18 items, 1942-1944
“Pobeda” (Victory) – fond 3616, 33 items, 1942-1944
“Vpered” (Forward) – fond 3620, 47 items, 1942-1944
named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 3615, 20 items, 1942-1944
named after V.S. Grizodubova – fond 3628, 20 items, 1942-1944
named after F.E. Dzerzhinski – fond 3619, 90 items, 1942-1944
named after G.K. Zhukov – fond 3609, 34 items, 1942-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 3618, 100 items, 1942-1944
named after Lenin’s Komsomol – fond 1105, 19 items, 1941-1944 (Grodno Archives)
named after Lenin’s Komsomol – fond 3614, 28 items, 1942-1944
named after A. Nevski – fond 3622, 32 items, 1943-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3606, 36 items, 1942-1944
named after K.K. Rokossovski – fond 3624, 27 items, 1941-1945
named after I.V. Stalin – fond 3603, 48 items, 1942-1944
named after A.V. Suvorov – fond 3611, 23 items, 1942-1944
named after M.V. Frunze fond 3626, 33 items, 1942-1944
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 3621, 15 items, 1942-1944
named after V.P. Chkalov – fond 3604, 53 items, 1942-1944
named after N.A. Shchors – fond 3605, 58 items, 1942-1944
the 1st brigade of Baranovichi – fond 4414, 3 items, 1943-1944
the 19th brigade named after B.M. Molotov – fond 3627, 14 items, 1942-1944
Bialystok region
“Vo imia Rodiny” (In the name of Motherland) – fond 3651, 19 items,
1942-1944
named after A. Nevski – fond 3650, 5 items, 1943-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3653, 27 items, 1942-1944
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 3652, 24 items, 1942-1944
Brest region
“Za Rodinu” (For Motherland) named after A.K. Flegontov – fond 3714, 24
items, 1942-1945
“Sovetskaia Belarus” – fond 3711, 35 items, 1941-1974
named after F.E. Dzerzhinski – fond 3707, 71 items, 1941-1944
named after G.K. Zhukov – fond 3716, 53 items, 1941-1972
named after V.I. Lenin – fond 3708, 25 items, 1942-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3712, 106 items, 1942-1944
named after Y.M. Sverdlov – fond 3710, 37 items, 1942-1944
named after I.V. Stalin – fond 3709, 34 items, 1942-1946
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 3713, 29 items, 1941-1944
the 99th brigade named after D.T. Guliaev – fond 3706, 28 items, 1941-1944
the 150th brigade named after F.M. Iazykovich – fond 3715, 11 items, 1943-1944
“Za Rodinu” (For Motherland) – fond 3791, 12 items, 1943-1944
“Spartak” – fond 3783, 2 items, 1943-1944
named after S.M. Budenny – fond 3776, 17 items, 1942-1944
named after N.F. Gastello fond 3778, 31 items, 1943-1944
named after L.M. Dovator – fond 3779, 34 items, 1943-1944
named after G.K. Zhukov – fond 3780, 19 items, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 4383, 1 item, 1944
named after M.I. Kutuzov – fond 3781, 11 items, 1943-1944
named after K.K. Rokossovski – fond 3784, 28 items, 1942-1944
named after A.V. Suvorov – fond 3782, 14 items, 1942-1944
named after M.V. Frunze – fond 3785, 55 items, 1942-1944
named after the CC CC(B)B – fond 3774, 14 items, 1942-1965
the 1st Vileiskaia brigade named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 3774, 14 items, 1942-1944
the 4th Belorusskaia brigade – fond 3775, 11 items, 1942-1944
Vitebsk region
“Alekseia” named after A.F. Danukalov – fond 3879, 28 items, 1942-1944
Belorusskaia named after V.I. Lenin diversionary brigade of special assignment – fond
3886, 7 items, 1942-1943
Bogushevskaia – fond 3884, 29 items, 1943-1945
named after V.U. Boiko (“Bati”) – fond 3885, 2 items, 1942
“Groza” (Storm) – fond 3892, 9 items, 1942-1944
named after N.P. Gudkov – fond 3891, 17 items, 1943-1944
“Dubova” – fond 3893, 24 items, 1942-1965
Lepelskaia named after I.V. Stalin – fond 3903, 10 items, 1942-1944
Lioznenskaia – fond 3902, 2 items, 1943-1944
Osveiskaia named after M.V. Frunze – fond 3912, 43 items, 1942-1944
Sennenskaia – fond 3906, 12 items, 1942-1944
named after the VLKCM (Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union) –
fond 3890, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 3887, 58 items, 1941-1944
named after S.M. Korotkin – fond 3898, 19 items, 1941-1961
named after Krasnoznamennyi Leninskii komsomol – fond 3899, 9 items, 1941-1943
named after M.I. Kutuzov – fond 3900, 5 items, 1943
named after V.I. Lenin – fond 3901, 4 items, 1943-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3905, 5 items, 1943-1944
named after I.V. Stalin – fond 3904, 113 items, 1941-1943
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 3907, 8 items, 1942-1944
the 1st Belorusskaia – fond 3880, 80 items, 1941-1944
the 1st Belorusskaia (second staff) – fond 3881, 31 items, 1943-1944
the 1st Vitebskaia – fond 3889, 2 items, 1942-1943
the 1st Vitebskaia (second staff) – fond 3888, 8 items, 1942-1944
the 1st Drissenskaia – fond 3894, 8 items, 1942-1944
the 1st brigade named after K.S. Zaslonov – fond 3896, 27 items, 1941-1946
the 1st Smolenskaia – fond 3910, 7 items, 1942-1944
the 2nd brigade named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3882, 9 items, 1941-1944
the 2nd Drissenskaia – fond 3895, 10 items, 1943-1944
the 2nd brigade named after K.S. Zaslonov – fond 3897, 15 items, 1943-1944
the 3d Belorusskaia named after A.Y. Marchenko – fond 3883, 16 items, 1942-1946
the 16th Smolenskaia – fond 3909, 13 items, 1942-1944
Gomel region
“Bolshevik” – fond 3941, 14 items, 1943
“Zhelezniak” – fond 3945, 16 items, 1943-1944
“Za Rodinu” – fond 3947, 14 items, 1941-1943
“Mstitel” – fond 4402, 7 items, 1943
named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 3943, 13 items, 1941-1945
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3948, 13 items, 1942-1943
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 4404, 2 items, 1942-1943
named after N.A. Shchors – fond 3950, 3 items, 1943
the 1st Buda-Koshelevskaia – fond 3942, 9 items, 1943
the 1st Gomelskaia – fond 3944, 3 items, 1942-1943
the 50th Zhitkovichskaia – fond 4140, 16 items, 1943-1944
the 10th Zhuravichskaia – fond 3946, 19 items, 1942-1944
the 37th Elskaia – fond 4156, 7 items, 1942-1944
the 8th Rogachevskaia – fond 3949, 25 items, 1943-1944
Minsk region
“Belarus” – fond 4053, 81 items, 1941-1944
“Bolshevik” – fond 4080, 40 items, 1941-1982
“Burevestnik” – fond 4334, 5 items, 1943-1944
“Dyadi Koli” – fond 4081, 31 items, 1942-1944
“Zhelezniak” – fond 4082, 7 items, 1942-1944
“Za Sovetskuiu Belorussiiu” – fond 4071, 223 items, 1942-1944
“Krasnoe Znamia” – fond 4073, 43 items, 1942-1944
“Narodnye mstiteli” – fond 4085, 136 items, 1939-1944
“Plamia” – fond 4076, 58 items, 1942-1944
“Razgrom” – fond 4077, 262 items, 1942-1944
“Smert fashizmu” – fond 4087, 61 items, 1942-1944
“Starik” – fond 4088, 1 item, 1942
“Shturmovaia” – fond 4089, 246 items, 1942-1944
named after newspaper “Pravda” – fond 4075, 95 items, 1942-1963
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 4083, 13 items, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 4065, 10 items, 1943-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4084, 19 items, 1942-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4072, 94 items, 1942-1944
named after A. Nevsky – fond 4052, 27 items, 1943-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 4086, 58 items, 1942-1944
named after K.K. Rokossovski – fond 4061, 31 items, 1942-1944
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 4070, 15 items, 1942-1944
named after N.A. Shchors – fond 4078, 103 items, 1941-1944
the 1st Antifashistskaia – fondd 4374, 1 item, 1943-1944
the 1st named after Bragin – fond 4091, 11 items, 1941-1944
the 1st Minskaia – fond 4057, 134 items, 1942-1944
the 1st Minskaia – fond 4074, 2203 items, 1942-1944
the 3d Minskaia named after S.M. Budenny – fond 4058, 59 items, 1942-1945
the 12th Cavalry named after I.V. Stalin – fond 4064, 13 items, 1942-1944
the 25th named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 4060, 29 items, 1942-1944
the 25th named after M.V. Frunze – fond 4062, 42 items, 1942-1944
the 32th named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 4054, 28 items, 1942-1944
the 37th named after A.Y. Parkhomenko – fond 4059, 40 items, 1941-1944
the 64th named after V.P. Chkalov – fond 4063, 36 items, 1942-1944
the 100th named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4056, 228 items, 1941-1944
the 161th named after G.I. Kotovski – fond 4055, 4 items, 1941-1944
the 225th named after A.V. Suvorov – fond 4069, 44 items, 1942-1944
the 300th named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 4068, 79 items, 1941-1975
Mogilev region
the 1st Bobruiskaia – fond 4240, 25 items, 1942-1943
the 2nd Klichevskaia – fond 4241, 3 items, 1942-1943
the 3d Berezinskaia – fond 4242, 1 item, 1942-1943
the 5th Klichevskaia – fond 4243, 1 item, 1942-1943
the 11th Bykhovskaia – fond 4244, 1 item, 1943
the 13th Kostyukovichskaia – fond 4245, 5 items, 1943
the 14th Tyomnolesskaia – fond 4246, 22 items, 1941-1943
the 17th – fond 4247, 5 items, 1941-1943
the 47th “Pobeda” – fond 4249, 3 items, 1943-1944
the 130th “Mest'” – fond 4250, 8 items, 1942-1944
Pinsk region
Pinskaia – fond 4123, 19 items, 1942-1944
“Sovetskaia Belarus” – fond 4124, 13 items, 1943-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4119, 53 items, 1942-1944
named after V.V. Kuibyshev – fond 4120, 108 items, 1943-1944
named after V.I. Lenin – fond 4121, 108 items, 1942-1944
named after V.M. Molotov – fond 4122, 23 items, 1942-1945
Polesie region
Lelchitskaia – fond 4150, 10 items, 1942-1944
Mozyrskaia named after A. Nevsky – fond 4157, 5 items, 1943-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 4147, 1 item, 1943
the 2nd Kalinkovichskaia named after M.V. Frunze – fond 4141, 4 items, 1943-1944
the 27th Narovlianskaia named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4155, 16 items, 1943-1944
the 99th Kalinkovichskaia – fond 4839, 4 items, 1943-1945
the 100th Glusskaia – fond 4143, 2 items, 1942-1944
the 101th Domanovichskaia – fond 4142, 2 items, 1943-1944
the 123th Oktiabrskaia named after 25 years of the BSSR – fond 4333, 10 items, 1942-1944
the 125th Kopatkevichskaia – fond 4144, 8 items, 1943-1944
the 130th Petrikovskaia – fond 4145, 20 items, 1942-1944
the 225th – fond 4146, 3 items, 1943-1944
Partisan regiments
NARB, 1941 – 1988
Vitebsk region
regiment of I.F. Sadchikov (of special assignment) – fond 3908, 4 items, 1942-1944
the 13th – fond 3911, 6 items, 1942-1944
Mogilev region
the 15th – fond 4251, 7 items, 1942-1944
the 113th – fond 4252, 1 item, 1943-1944
the 120th – fond 4253, 21 items, 1942-1944
the 121th named after O.M. Kasaev – fond 4254, 13 items, 1941-1944
the 122th “Za Rodinu” (For Motherland) – fond 4255, 9 items, 1942-1944
the 208th named after I.V. Stalin – fond 4257, 30 items, 1942-1944
the 277th – fond 4258, 11 items, 1941-1944
the 425th – fond 4259, 8 items, 1942-1944
the 537th – fond 4260, 14 items, 1941-1944
the 600th – fond 4261, 30 items, 1942-1944
the 810th – fond 4262, 7 items, 1942-1944
Partisan detachments
NARB, 1941 – 1944
Baranovichi region
named after L.P. Beria – fond 3607, 7 items, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 3623, 7 items, 1943-1944
the 62th named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 3629, 6 items, 1942-1944
Bialystok region
“Boevoi” named after Dunaev – fond 3655, 12 items, 1942-1944
named after S.M. Budenny – fond 3656, 7 items, 1942-1944
named after F.E. Dzerzhinski – fond 3657, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after G.K. Zhukov – fond 3658, 3 items, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 3659, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after B. Khmelnitski – fond 3654, 2 items, 1943-1944
Brest region
named after S.M. Budenny – fond 3717, 5 items, 1942-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 3721, 11 items, 1943-1944
named after G.I. Kotovski – fond 3719, 9 items, 1942-1944
named after G.I. Kotovski (second staff) – fond 3722, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kutuzov – fond 3722, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after M.V. Frunze – fond 3723, 1 item, 1944
named after N.A. Shchors – fond 3718, 12 items, 1942-1944
the 345th – fond 3724, 15 items, 1942-1944
the 347th – fond 3725, 2 items, 1944
Vileika region
“Boets” – fond 3790, 4 items, 1943-1944
“Za Sovetskuiu Belorussiiu” – fond 3788, 7 items, 1943-1944
detachment of S.G. Suslov – fond 3786, 4 items, 1942-1944
named after P.K. Ponomarenko – fond 3792, 1 item, 1944
named after I.V. Stalin – fond 3789, 2 items, 1943
named after G.I. Kotovski (second staff) – fond 3722, 1 item, 1943-1944
Gomel region
assault detachment of the Zhlobin district – fond 3952, 1 item, 1943-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 3951, 3 items, 1943
Minsk region
assault detachment of the Rudensk district – fond 4445, 3 items, 1944
“Mstitel” – fond 4066, 8 items, 1943-1944
named after M.I. Kalinin – fond 4067, 6 items, 1943-1944
named after I.V. Stalin – fond 4284, 7 items, 1942-1943
Mogilev region
Anatoli Tair’s detachment – fond 4955, 1 item, 1970-1988
“Za Sovetskuiu Belarus” – fond 4283, 3 items, 1942-1943
under the Belynichi underground district committee of the CP(B)B – fond 4280, 8 items,
1942-1944
the 3d – fond 4263, 1 item, 1942-1943
the 25th of the Klichev VOG (military-operational group) named after 25 years of the
October – fond 4264, 2 items, 1942-1944
the 35th of the Belynichi VOG – fond 4265, 1 item, 1943-1944
the 42th – fond 4266, 5 items, 1 item, 1943-1944
the 43th named after K.E. Voroshilov – fond 4267, 3 items, 1942-1944
the 45th “Za Rodinu” – fond 4268, 2 items, 1942-1943
the 48th – fond 4332, 2 items, 1943
the 61th – fond 4269, 5 items, 1941-1944
the 100th – fond 4270, 11 items, 1942-1944
the 112th – fond 4271, 3 items, 1943-1944
the 115th – fond 4272, 1 item, 1942-1944
the 120th – fond 4281, 2 items, 1943-1944
the 225th – fond 4273, 1 item, 1943-1944
the 340th – fond 4274, 5 items, 1943-1944
the 346th – fond 4275, 22 items, 1943-1944
the 435th – fond 4276, 2 items, 1943-1944
the 538th – fond 4277, 6 items, 1943-1944
the 539th – fond 4285, 9 items, 1942-1944
the 720th – fond 4278, 7 items, 1942-1975
the 721th – fond 4279, 2 items, 1943
the 830th – fond 4282, 3 items, 1943-1944
Pinsk region
named after S.M. Budenny – fond 4118, 112 items, 1941-1944
Polesie region
“Za Rodinu” – fond 4149, 3 items, 1943-1944
named after S.M. Kirov – fond 4152, 3 items, 1943
named after G.I. Kotovski – fond 4153, 6 items, 1942-1950
named after A.V. Suvorov – fond 4148, 2 items, 1943-1944
named after V.I. Chapaev – fond 4151, 2 items, 1942-1949
Joint archival fonds of the primary party organizations of the partisan
units
NARB, fond 4950, 391 items, 1942 – 1944
Resolutions and instructions of the CP(B)B regional and district committees, minutes of the party meetings and bureau sessions. Plans of work and reports on their fulfillment. Schedules of the party and political work; information on the number of CP members and member candidates; lists of the communists recommended for the government awards and military ranks. Applications for the CP membership. Autobiographies of the partisans-communists. Sheets of payments to the Defence Fund.
Joint archival fonds of the primary komsomol organizations
of the partisan units
NARB, fond 4949, 146 items, 1942 – 1944
Resolutions and instructions of the LYCLB regional and district committees. Plans of work of the komsomol organizations, reports on their fulfillment. Minutes of the komsomol meetings and bureau sessions; extracts from the minutes about recommendations for the CP membership. Registers of combat operations of the partisans-komsomol members. Information on combat activities of the komsomol members, and those killed and lost. Lists and references of the komsomol members (including those staying in the enemy’s formations for the underground work). Applications for membership in the Komsomol League.
Abbreviations:
CC CP(B)B – Central Committee of the Communist Party (of
Bolsheviks) of Belarus
LYCLB – Lenin’s Young Communist League of Belarus (Komsomol)
CHPM – Central Headquarters of Partisan Movement
BHPM – Belarusian Headquarters of Partisan Movement