Partisan regiment

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Soviet partisan regiment (1941–1944) (

Soviet partisan units. On the BSSR territory[1]
it was used rarely.

The numerical and weapons complement and the

partisan brigade
, 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

military-operational groups
and 3 separately).

After the joining with the Red Army, the

Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement
re-classified its partisan regiments as brigades.


  1. ^ a b As in the 1941 borders.

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.