The first detachments commanded by Red Army officers and local Communist Party activists were formed in the first days of the war between former allies Germany and the Soviet partisans Union, including the Starasyel'ski detachment of Major Dorodnykh in the Zhabinka district and the Pinsk detachment of Vasily Korzh on June 26,1941.
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