brave girls, nadya zhukovskaya, katya sumalovskaya, fyokla gullenko, fought side by side with the menchment. 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, bandit bumashkov. after consulting with the headquarters of kurmyshev’s detachment, bumazhkov and pavlovsky decide to attack the village. concluding his speech, bumashkov said: we are the owners of the region, and we will remain so. and so not far from oktyabrsky , literally 12 kilometers, there is the village of ozemlya, where the german headquarters was located, since for rest and very close there was a