the commissar of the kirov partisan detachment , ivan germanov, urgently arrived at the location of the palik, along with his family member and intelligence chief mashkov. the information they had was of particular importance. operation cottbus is planned in the area of ​​our partisan zone. the formations of derlivanger, darmagen, and gilradionov will be thrown against the partisans. aviation - tanks, reported mashkov to the secretary of the minsk underground regional party committee, roman machulsky. this is confirmed by our contacts from borisov and leppel. moshkov circled the areas of proposed military operations on the map. holopenicheskiy, krupsky, begomlsky, borisovsky, lepelsky. germanov unfolded another map, a german one, and circled these districts on it. they found a downed german pilot in a tablet near the village of chisti melchanskie. germanov attached another document to the map. the combat order to begin the punitive operation was also on the tablet, signed by von godber. may 15, 1943 of the year. roman machulsky, having once again carefully studied the documents, began t