at the end of september 1942 soroka. together with his relative alexandra gorkova, on instructions fromuarters, they were parachuted to the area of ​​​​the village of rasputye to the military rudensky district. they landed by parachute and met with partisans, and already in october 1942 he became their commander. in a short time, soroko was able to organize a combat-ready partisan detachment. they operated in the rudinsky, pukhovichi and minsk regions. organized ambushes and sabotage on highways and railways, and defeated several fortified enemy garrisons. the partisan detachment named after kalinin, led by leonid soroko, in the year from december 1942 to 1943, december, it increased 10 times when leonid iosifovich soroka accepted fighters as part of... group of partisans, it grew to 300 people. subsequently, the detachment was named after kalinin, and a year later it was already a brigade, it included several detachments, each of which had its own commander. one of the commanders named after kalinin, the commander of the partisan detachment named after molotov, papa shilvoy mitrofan de