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Documents in the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus on the relationship between Partisans and the local population in Belarus
Documents relating to the combat operations of Partisans and the participation of the local population in combat operations
| Document name and date | Fond/Inventory number | File/Folio number |
| Summary report for 1943 of the Partisan brigade named after Dzerzhinsky (Brest Region) on the participation in the brigade’s combat operations by local residents from the villages Gitchychitsy, Vlasovtsy and Khodoki | 4/33а | 479/8–9 |
| Order of 17.01.1943 on establishing Partisan reserves and combat groups in the Ponomarenko brigade (Minsk Region) | 4/ 33а | 495/116–117 |
| Order of 3.02.1943 for the Kirov detachment (Luninets district, Polesie region) on the organization of commandant’s offices; instructions on the rights and activities of the village commandants | 4119/1 | 2/47 |
| Letter to the commander of the Partisan formation in the Slutsk Partisan-controlled zone (Minsk Region) dated 9.02.1943 concerning the armed reinforcement of Partisan struggle | 3515/1 | 1/24-26 |
| Order of 21.04.1943 on the formation of the Partisan armed group in the village of Snyadyn, Petrikov district | 4126/1 | 20/8 |
| Order on the organization of voluntary groups in the Marchenko brigade (Minsk Region), dated June, 1943 | 3500/4 | 24/22-23 |
| Instruction to the Pervomaisky Partisan detachment in the Pervomaisky brigade (Baranovichi Region) of 29.06.1943 concerning the Partisan attack on the guard-house in the town of Novogrudok | 3610/1 | 16/4 |
| Order of 8.09.1943 on establishing Partisan reserve bases in the brigade named after D.V. Tyabut (Vitebsk Region) | 3793/1 | 3/176 |
| Report for the Voroshilov Partisan brigade (Vitebsk Region) for November, 1943 on the assistance with intelligence, communication and combat operations of Partisans by the local population | 3887/1 | 47/2-3 |
| Order No.15 for the Bogushevsk Partisan brigade (Vitebsk Region) dated 12.12.1943 on the organization of short-term training courses to prepare junior commanders from the local populace | 3884/1 | 1/14 |
| Order No.14 dated March, 1944 for the Partisan detachment named after I. I. Chukhlai (Pinsk Region) on the organization of training centers for the residents of Leninsky District | 3500/4 | 287/32-33 |
Documents concerning the material support of the Partisan formations
| Document name and date | Fond/Inventory number | File/Folio number |
| From the chronicle of the 1st Belarusian Partisan Brigade (Vitebsk region): concerning the collection of arms carried out by the local people for Partisans in 1941-1944 | 3500/4 | 16/667-668 |
| Report (1942-1943) concerning the political work carried out amongst the local population by the propagandists of the Molotov Partisan Regiment (Suvorov Partisan Brigade, Pinsk region) | 3500/4 | 283/17 |
| Resolutions of the Vitebsk CP(b)B Underground Committee, 1942 | 3796/1 | 1/ |
| Resolutions of the Cherven CP(b)B Underground Committee, Minsk region, 1942 | 4074/1 | 83/ |
| Order for the Lenin Partisan Brigade (Baranovichi region) dated 20.03.1942 concerning the collection of foodstuffs carried out by the local people for the brigade’s hospital | 3613/1 | 20/129 |
| Resolution of the Klichev DC CP(b)B of 23.04.1942 concerning the spring sowing campaign in the Klichev district, Mogilev region | 4164/1 | 1/7 |
| Data of May, 1942 referring to the economic actions carried out by the detachments of the 1st Stalin Partisan Brigade in the Rossony district, Minsk region | 3500/4 | 27/19 |
| Report of the Bogushevsk Brigade’s command (Vitebsk region) to the BHPM concerning the local people’s assistance to Partisans, June 1942 | 3884/1 | 7/5 |
| Report dated 4.09.1942 of the 2nd Belarusian Partisan Brigade (Vitebsk region) about the work carried out amongst the population | 4412/1 | 5/49-55 |
| Order for the 3rd Belarusian Partisan Brigade (Vitebsk region) dated 6.09.1942 about the partisans’ work amongst the population and the brigade’s preparation for winter | 4412/1 | 20/84-88 |
| Order No.17 dated 8.11.1942 for the 2nd Minsk Partisan Brigade referring to the quarterage of the brigade’s personnel | 4057, op. 1, d. 1, l. 54 | 1/54 |
| Resolutions of the Gantsevichi Underground DC CP(b)B (Pinsk region), 1943 . | 4092/1 | 8/ |
| Resolutions of the Kruglyansky Underground DC CP(b)B (Mogilev region), 1943 | 4166/1 | 2/ |
| Resolutions of the Polotsk Underground DC CP(b)B, 1943 | 3806/1 | 1/ |
| Reference for I. Maksimovich, the resident of the village of Petry (Dokudovo selsovet, Lida district), who helped Partisans with ammunition and medicines, 1943 | 3618/1 | 2/213-213 ob. |
| Order No.22 of 16.01.1943 for the Partisan detachments in the Minsk and Polesie regions detailing the instances of poor attitude of the Partisans towards the local people | 3500/3 | 52/55-56 |
| Political report to the secretary of the Vitebsk RC CP(b)B Stulov concerning the state of the Partisan movement in the Ushachi district, March 1943 | 4/33а | 257/28-30 |
| Certificate of 5. 04.1943 confirming the voluntary collection of clothes for the Partisan Brigade “Za Sovetskuyu Belarus” (For Soviet Belarus) by the residents of the Ushachi district, Vitebsk region | 3500/4 | 43a/14 |
| Closed letter of the secretary of the Baranovichi Underground RC CP(b)B Platon dated 15.05.1943 detailing the violations in economic actions carried out in the Republic’s regions | 3619/1 | 1/40-41 |
| Report of 20.05.1943 concerning the activities of the “Zheleznyak” brigade (Begoml district, Minsk region) for 1943 | 3957/1 | 4/53-60 |
| Data of May 1943 concerning the collection of money carried out in the Zaslavl and Dzerzhinsk districts (Baranovichi region) by the Schors Partisan Detachment | 3605/1 | 4/344 |
| Report of 1.06.1943 to the BHPM referring to the 2nd Mikhailov Partisan Brigade | 3500/4 | 130/126-128 |
| Internal report of 3.06.1943 of the secretary of the Berezino DC CP(b)B to D. Movchansky, chief of the Mogilev Partisan Formation concerning helping the residents of the Berezino district а | 4161/1 | 2/23 |
| Certificate of 5.06.1943 confirming the handing over of gold to the Chkalov Partisan Detachment by a local resident | 3620/1 | 10/21 |
| Order No.0057 dated 12.06.1943 of the Pinsk Partisan Formation’s command concerning the protection of local people by Partisans during the harvesting campaign | 4117/1 | 1/50 |
| From the report dated 29.06.1943 of the Gomel Partisan Formation commander I. Kozhar to the BHPM chief P.Z. Kalinin concerning helping the local population | 4/33а | 184/31-33 |
| Political report dated 4.07.1943 of the Ponomarenko Partisan Brigade’s commissar to the secretary of the Minsk Underground RC CP(b)B Machulsky concerning the material procurement of the Partisan detachments | 4/33а | 495/275 |
| Order of 12.07.1943 for the Partisan detachment “Sokol” (Bialystok region) concerning the gathering of the most active village residents for carrying out grain purchases | 3653/1 | 5/114 |
| Political report of 12.07.1943 to the BHPM for the Marchenko Partisan Brigade (Polotsk district, Minsk region) concerning the brigade’s food supply | 3500/4 | 24/262 |
| Resolution dated 16.07.1943 of the Vetrino Underground DC CP(b)B (Vitebsk region) concerning helping the local residents of the Vetrino and Polotsk district’s villages burned down by the Nazis | 3793/1 | 128/213-214 |
| From the resolution of the Cherven Underground DC CP(b)B (Minsk region) dated 23.07.1943 concerning the harvesting campaign and the food supply for the Partisans detachments of Cherven district | 4074/1 | 83/103-105 |
| Resolution of the Senno Underground DC CP(b)B (Vitebsk region) dated 24.07.1943 concerning the preparation for winter of the Partisan detachments and the brigades deployed in the Senno district | 4/33а | 484/214 |
| Resolution dated 28.07.1943 of the Begoml Underground DC CP(b)B concerning the harvesting campaign of 1943, and the grain purchases for the Partisan detachments | 3957/1 | 2/6 |
| Report dated 29.07.1943 of the 3rd Belarusian Partisan Brigade’s command (Vitebsk region) to the Vitebsk Underground RC CP(b)B concerning the harvesting campaign | 3500/4 | 24/304-305 |
| Resolution dated 30.07.1943 of the Gressk Underground DC CP(b)B (Minsk region) concerning the harvesting campaign and food supplies for Partisans and the local population | 4/33а | 497/30 |
| Resolution of the CC CP(b)B dated 14.08.1943 signed by Ponomarenko referring to the harvesting campaign of 1943 | 4/3 | 1245/40 |
| Order of 20.08.1943 for the Kirov Partisan Brigade (Baranovichi region) concerning making lists of the peasants liable to food tax | 3618/1 | 3/60 |
| Order No.5 dated 20.08.1943 for the Kirov Partisan Brigade (Baranovichi region) concerning poor attitude of Partisans towards the local people | 3618/1 | 3/10-10 об. |
| Order of September, 1943 for the “Bolshevik” Partisan Detachment (“Vpered” Partisan Brigade, Baranovichi region) concerning the collection of arms carried out by the local people for the detachment’s Partisans | 3620/1/ | 34/6 |
| Record of the Drissa Partisan Brigade (Vitebsk region), September 1943 | 4/33а | 177/173-177 |
| Reports of 7.09.1943 to the BHPM concerning the protection of the local people, the work amongst the population of the Borisov, Begoml, Logoisk, and Pleshchenitsy districts | 4/33а | 509/260-261 |
| Order No.0077 dated 23.09.1943 of the Rokossovsky Partisan Brigade’s command (Vileika region) concerning the preparation for combat actions in autumn and winter | 3500/ 4 | 61/198 |
| Order dated 3.11.1943 for the Suvorov Partisan Brigade (Plissa district, Vileika region) concerning the foodstuffs issue | 3782/1 | 12/142-142 об. |
| Resolution dated 13.11. 1943 of the Senno DC CP(b)B concerning the food purchases for the Partisan brigades deployed in the Senno district | 4/33а | 484/275-275 об. |
| Registration form for food delivery in the Minsk region, 1943 | 3500/4 | 140а/105 |
| Order No.6 dated 20.11.1943 for the Dzerzhinsky Partisan Brigade (Baranovichi region) detailing the instances of looting amongst the Partisans | 3619/1 | 49/23 |
| Order of 27.11.1943 for the Stalin Partisan Detachment concerning the protection and accommodation of the local people who ran away into the detachment-controlled zone | 4053/1 | 12/2 |
| Report dated 5.04.1944 of Ya. Dmitriev, deputy commissar of the Zhdanov Partisan Detachment (Sverdlov Partisan Brigade, Brest region) concerning local people’s assistance to the Partisans from October 1943 to March 1944 | 4/33а | 479/122-123 |
| From the report of P. Kalinin, the BHPM chief to the CC CP(b)B referring to the technical and material supplies for the Belarusian Partisans from 1.01 to 1.08.1944 | 3500/2 | 1012/35-37 |
| Order No.12 dated 9.02.1944 for the Mikoyan Partisan Detachment (Shchors Partisan Brigade, Baranovichi region) referring to the instances of looting amongst the Partisans during food purchases | 3605/1 | |
| Minutes No.19 of the meeting of the Gantsevichi Underground DC CP(b)B (Pinsk region) dated 25.03.1944 concerning the spring sowing campaign | 4092/1 | 8/54 |
| Report dated 26.03.1944 of S. Stankevich, secretary of the Mogilev Underground DC CP(b)B to the CC CP(b)B secretaries Ponomarenko and Kalinin concerning the collection of funds for the country’s defence amongst the Partisans and local population of the Mogilev region | 4160/1 | 12/19 |
| Report dated 27.03.1944 of Yastrebov, 2nd secretary of the Ushachi Underground DC CP(b)B (Vitebsk region) to the BHPM chief Kalinin concerning the collection of funds for the defence amongst the population | 3812/1 | 10/117 |
| Instruction of the CC CP(b)B and BHPM commissioner V.E. Lobanok to the secretary of the Ushachi Underground DC CP(b)B (Vitebsk region) I. Korenevsky dated 7.04.1944 concerning the spring sowing campaign | 3812/1 | 11/19 |
| Minutes of the meeting of the Krugloe Underground DC CP(b)B (Mogilev region) dated 21.04.1944 concerning helping the local people in the sowing campaign | 4166/1 | 2/19-20 |
| Resolution of the Mogilev Underground RC CP(b)B dated 23.04.1944 concerning the spring sowing campaign in the occupied districts | 3500/4 | 97а/296 |
| Letter of the CPC BSSR chairman P. K. Ponomarenko to the command of the Belarusian Partisan formations dated 27.04.1944 concerning the spring sowing campaign | 3500/23 | 82/43 |
| Order No.0166 dated 1.05.1944 for the Frunze Partisan Brigade (Vileika region) concerning the instances of looting amongst the Partisans during food purchases | 3785/1 | 1/170-171 |
| Certificate of the BHPM Operational Department dated 8.05.1944 detailing the enemy’s attempts to derange the work of the sowing campaign | 3500/3 | 120/12-18 |
| Resolutions of the Stolbtsy RC CP(b)B dated 11.05.1944 concerning carrying out of P.K. Ponomarenko’s instructions for the sowing campaign in the Stolbtsy district | 3519/1 | 6/22-23 |
| Meeting at the Lazo Partisan Detachment (Budenny Partisan Brigade, Minsk region) dated 22.05.1944 detailing the sowing campaign in the Starye Dorogi district | 3956/1 | 10/15-16 |
| Report dated 6.06.1944 of I. Laktionov, the commissar of the “Razgrom” Partisan Brigade (Minsk region) to the BHPM chief P. Kalinin concerning the sowing campaign and helping the local population | 3500/4 | 138/392 |
| Report of I. Petrov, the commissar of the Orlov Partisan Detachment (Chapaev Partisan Brigade, Brest region) dated 9.07.1944 concerning the local people’s assistance to the Partisans in the Kobrin district | 4/33а | 481/195-199 |
| Report dated 30.07.1944 detailing the battle given by the Partisans of the Lazo Partisan Detachment (Molotov Partisan Brigade, Pinsk region) aimed to preserve the harvest gathered by the residents of Rodogoshch village, Ivanovo district | 3500/4 | 283/232-233 |
Documents relating to the medical service of Partisans and the civilian population
| Document name and date | Fond/Inventory number | File/Folio number |
| Report of 28.01.1943 on the Partisan hospital in the Slutsk Partisan-controlled zone | 3500/4 | 158/39 |
| Letter of September, 1942 addressed to the CC CP(b)B by the secretary of the Klichev underground district committee of the CP(b)B Y.I. Zayats with a request for a doctor and medicines | 4164/1 | 3/3 |
| Report of 15.05.1943 on the state of the medical and health service in the Chapaev brigade (Vitebsk Region) | 3793/1 | 81/112 |
| Final examination register of nurses from the Voroshilov and Kutuzov detachments in the brigade “Smert fashizmu” (Death to fascism) (Minsk Region), dated 12.12.1943 | 4087/1 | 6/15 |
| Order No.0119 for the Frunze brigade (Vileika Region) dated 22.12.1943 on the medical service of Partisans and the local population | 3785/1 | 37/102-103 |
| Extract from the report on the state of the medical service in the Bialystok Partisan formation from August 1943 to July 1944 | 3649/1 | 5/98-103 |
| Extract from the report to the BHPM on the organization of the medical service in the Suvorov brigade (Vileika Region) and the health care of Partisans and the local population in 1944. | 3782/1 | 12/98, 100-102, 106 |
| Extract from the report of I. Insarov, the chief of the BHPM Medical Service, addressed to the CC CP(b)B dated March 1944 on the supply of medicines and medical equipment to the Belarusian Partisans | 3500/2 | 1027/77-79 |
Documents illustrating different aspects of the relationship between Partisans and the local population
| Document name and date | Fond/Inventory number | File/Folio number |
| Report on the Chechersk district underground organization (Gomel Region) for the period from 14.08.1941 to 1.08.1943 | 4/33а | 184/19 |
| Resolution of the CPC BSSR and CC CP(b)B on the creation of food bases for the Partisan detachments in the Vitebsk region, 1942 . | 4/3 | 1232/200 |
| Report dated 12.07.1942 of the Berezino DC CP(b)B Chief to the field commandant’s office in Mogilev on Partisan disruption to the Occupation authorities’ tax collection | 3500/4 | 89/1 |
| Instructions of P.K. Ponomarenko dated 5.02.1943, concerning orders for all Partisans detachments to be ready for action to defend the local population | 3500/4 | 30/344 |
| Brief survey of the BHPD intelligence department dated 15.02.1943 referring to the situation in the occupied territory of the Polesie region | 3500/4 | 216/6-11 |
| Report of the commander of the “Chekist” Partisan brigade (Mogilev Region) dated March 1943 concerning the formation of self-defence groups and their combat actions | 3500/4 | 88/32-34 |
| Extract from the report of the Suvorov Partisan detachment (Khoiniki district, Polesie region) dated 4.04.1943 referring to the assistance given to the local population by draught animals | 3500/4 | 231/56 |
| Minutes of the meetings of the Gressk DC CP(b)B (Minsk Region) for May 1943 | 4/33а | 497/ |
| Resolution of the Senno underground DC CP(b)B (Vitebsk Region) dated 24.07.1943 concerning winter preparation of the Partisan brigades, the detachments deployed in the Senno district and referring to the participation of the local population in this work | 4/33а | 484/214 |
| Resolution of the Gressk underground DC CP(b)B (Minsk Region) dated 30.07.1943 concerning the harvesting campaign and food supplies for the Partisans and the local population | 4/33а | 497/30 |
| Resolution signed by the CC CP(b)B Secretary P.K. Ponomarenko on the harvesting campaign of 1943 | 4/3 | 1245/40 |
| Internal report of 7.09.1943 referring to the tasks of the Iliya DC CP(b)B | 4/33а | 490/175-178 |
| Order of B. Platon, the BHPM and CC CP(b)B Commissioner, member of the Baranovichi underground RC CP(b)B dated 6.12.1943 to the secretaries of the Yuratishki and Ivie RC CP(b)B, and to the commander and commissar of the brigade “Vpered” (Forward) | 3620/1 | 1/19 |
| Report of the Vitebsk RC CP(b)B Secretary B. Stulov to the CC CP(b)B dated 24.04.1944 on the state of the Partisan movement in the occupied districts of the Vitebsk region and the situation in the Surazh Partisan-controlled zone | 4/ 29 | 158/201-208 |
| Report of the 15th Partisan brigade’s commander M.I. Badin to the BHPM commissioner at the Kalinin front Ryzhykov, dated 25.08.1944, detailing the instances of looting amongst the Partisans | 3500/4 | 16/179-180 |
| Political report of the “Dyadi Koli” brigade’s commissar, dated August 1944, to the secretary of the Minsk RC CP(b)B Machulsky on the the poor attitude of the brigade’s Partisans towards the local population | 4/33а | 495/55 |
| Record of the Danukalov Partisan brigade (Liozno district, Vitebsk region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 22/ |
| Record of the Dovator Partisan brigade (Kurenets district, Vileika region), 1944 . | 3500/4 | |
| Record of the 32th Partisan brigade named after Kalinin (Krasnaya Sloboda district, Minsk region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 163а/ |
| Record of the Partisan brigade named after Stalin (Baranovichi region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 245а/ |
| Record of the Chapaev Partisan brigade (Kobrin district, Brest region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 317а/ |
| Record of the Partisan brigade named after Lenin (Gantsevichi district, Pinsk region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 281а/ |
| Record of the Shchors Partisan brigade (Chechersk district, Gomel region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 197/ |
| Record of the Partisan brigade named after A. Nevsky (Baranovichi region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 243/ |
| Record of the 8th Partisan brigade (Brest region), 1944 | 3500/4 | 315/ |
Abbreviations:
CC CP(B)B -Central Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Belarus
RC CP(B)B – Regional Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Belarus
DC CP(B)B – District Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Belarus
CPC BSSR – Council of People’s Commissars of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
CHPM – Central Headquarters of Partisan Movement
BHPM – Belarusian Headquarters of Partisan Movement