everyone went into the forest on july 9, 1941, on the instructions of the surovsky district party partypartisan detachment was organized on the territory of the surovsky district , the commander of which was mina filippovich , shmav, it was he who was entrusted with the organization of this first partisan detachment in our territory of the vitebsk region, and for the reason that that he already had a great combat experience during the years of the first world war, the civil years of the fight against banditry, and how he headed one of the largest cardboard factories. e on the territory of the bssr that is, he was and party man. here, at this moment, minaev organizes a partisan detachment from the factory workers in the amount of 25 people, and already in the tenth of july, the detachment leaves completely for the forests. the detachment conducted its first combat operation on july 25 in the area of a self-praise farm on the river bank, turovka, reconnaissance, partizan discovered an enemy unit, the germans, rested on the river. open fire on the enemy was so sudden. that the enemy co