on july 9, 1941, on the instructions of the surazh district party committee, a the partisan detachmentas minai filippovich shmarev, was entrusted to him. the organization of this first partisan detachment in our territory of the vitebsk region, and due to the fact that he already had extensive combat experience during the first world war, the civil war, during the years of the fight against banditry, and since he headed one of the largest cardboard factories in territory of the bssr, that is , he was also a party member, here at this moment minaya shmarev organizes a partisan detachment of 25 from a working factory people, already in the tenth of july the detachment leaves completely for the forests. the detachment carried out its first combat operation on july 25 in the area of ​​samakhvalikha farm. on the banks of the turovka river, partisan reconnaissance discovered an enemy unit. the germans were relaxing on the river. the open fire on the enemy was so sudden that the enemy was unable to find his bearings and provide organized resistance. the fight was fast. and was one-sided in na