the surush district party committee , a partisan detachment was organized on the territory of the surozhmmander of which was minai filipovich shmarev. it was he who was entrusted with the organization of this first partisan detachment here on the territory of the vitebsk region, 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 largest cardboard factories on the territory of the bssr, that is, he was also a party member, here at this moment, minai shmarev organizes a partisan detachment of 25 people from the work of the factory, already on the tenth day of july... the detachment is already completely leaving for the forests. the detachment carried out its first combat operation on july 25 in the area of ​​samokhvalikha 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 re