bumashkov did not hesitate, he valued the hour.ous hasty efforts there was his firm thought: it was too late to defend himself when the enemy burst in. we need to resist now. from the base of the regional consumer union, they urgently transported all the supplies to the forest, buried them, and collected weapons throughout the village. brave girls, nadya zhukovskaya, katya sumalovskaya, fyokla gullenko, fought side by side with the men in the detachment. like sisters , the girls took care of the partisans, looked after the wounded, cooked dinner, washed clothes, and when necessary, took rifles and went with them to the battle. in july 1941, partisan intelligence reported that a nazi military formation was stationed in the village of azemlya. a mechanized detachment under lieutenant colonel kurmyshev was sent to the oktyabrsky district. close cooperation has been established between the units. the germans experienced the attacks of the detachments so thoroughly that the commanders of the detachments are called bandit kurmyshev, band

a detachment led by vasily korzh in the pinsk region and a red october detachment led by tikhon bumashkovthe polesie region. and already in the second half of 1941 , about 60 independently formed partisan detachments were operating in the occupied territory of belarus. they were small. in composition and initially numbered from 25 to 40 people. since april 1942, many detachments began to unite into partisan brigades, which could independently solve combat missions and were the most convenient form of organizing partisan forces. as a rule, a brigade consisted of three, and sometimes up to ten detachments. well, there were a lot of us there, there. fell in love, got married, we were like that, we had musicians, they sat , the stage was made, the guys go on assignments, we’ll dance , we’ll see them off, but no one knows whether everyone will return or not, september 1942, the decision of the meeting the command staff of individual detachments and representatives of the minsk underground, on the basis of the avenger and struggle detachments, a brigade of people's avengers is created. during t