ORDERS OF THE LENINGRAD HEADQUARTERS OF THE PARTISAN MOVEMENT AS A SOURCE OF A PARTISAN MOVEMENT HISTORY
The headquarters of the partisan movement at the Leningrad regional committee AUCPB was created on the 27th of September 1941. In June 1942, it was reformed into the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement. From 1941-1944 the headquarters controlled the partisan movement in the Leningrad region directly and through its tactical groups in the zones of the Leningrad, Volkhov and North-Western fronts. Structural changes of the partisan movement, the creation and the dissolution, the change of the location of partisan commands (brigades, detachments, groups), the transfer of the authority, the organization of the raiding, intelligence gathering operations in the enemy’s home front and other partisan movement key moments which affected the course of the war on the region territory, are reflected in the headquarters’, its departments’ and tactical groups’ orders.