Leningrad Headquarters for Partisan Operations

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LENINGRAD HEADQUARTERS FOR PARTISAN OPERATIONS. Established on 27 September 1941 under the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (of Bolsheviks), headed by M. N. Nikitin, Secretary of the Regional Committee). In June 1942, it came under the control of the Central Partisan Headquarters, which was part of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. It was first situated at 41 Vosstania Street; then, from September 1943, at 59 Herzen Street (Bolshaya Morskaya Street). The Leningrad Headquarters coordinated all activities of partisan troop units and detachments, underground district committees, and interregional party centres (established in early 1943) in the Leningrad Region. Over 4.600 soldiers were trained at the Leningrad Headquarters for Partisan Operations' training facilities. It also provided contact between partisan and Red Army units during the Lifting of the Siege. It was disbanded in May 1944.

References: Петров Ю. П. Партизанское движение в Ленинградской области, 1941-1944. Л., 1973.

A. Y. Chistyakov. Nikitin Mikhail Nikitich
Bolshaya Morskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 59
Vosstaniya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 41
Петров Ю. П. Партизанское движение в Ленинградской области, 1941-1944. Л., 1973 Lifting of the Siege, 1944