Voennyi Sbornik

11-29

Authors: Aleksandr A. Cherkasov

The paper attempts to consider the history of the partisan detachment “Battle Cry”, which operated on the territory of Karelia during the Second World War. The detachment was created in June 1941, and disbanded in October 1944. The work is based on two groups of historical sources: the archival materials and the materials of personal origin. The archival documents include documents of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Podolsk, Russian Federation). This archive in the work is represented by the award documents of the partisans, during the analysis of which the combat operations of the partisan detachment were restored. The documents of the National Archive of Finland (Uusimaa, Finland) were also used, in which the case of the military field trial of the partisan of the detachment Pyotr Pavlovich Cherkasov was postponed. The materials of personal origin, namely the memoirs of the former commander of the partisan detachment M.V. Medvedev are also an important source on the topic of the study. In conclusion, the author states that the partisan detachment “Battle Cry” existed for a little more than three years, from July 1941 to October 1944. After the liberation of the territory of Karelia from enemy troops, the need for partisan detachments for the command of the Red Army disappeared. Partisan detachments were disbanded, including the “Battle Cry” detachment, and most of the personnel entered the Red Army as marching replacements. In total, during the period from 1941 to 1944, the partisan detachment “Battle Cry” took part in 32 raids on the enemy's rear, having passed about 10 thousand km during this time. At the same time, the enemy suffered significant losses both in manpower and logistics, including the destruction of communications. In turn, the partisan detachment “Battle Cry” lost at least 32 people killed during the fighting.

43-49

Authors: Nicholas W. Mitiukov, Yury L. Kim

The Great Patriotic War became a serious test for the river transport of the USSR. A lot of timber-rafting trusts ships were mobilized and took part in the fighting. On the basis of office documentation and documentation on the personnel of the Sarapul raid of the trust “Kamlesosplav”, which was seriously supplemented by the funds of the statistics department of the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Sarapul region, a reconstruction was made of the dynamics of the ship's composition of the raid during the war years. The strength of the Sarapul raid throughout the war remained approximately the same size – 2-3 ships. Basically, there was a rotation of boats as part of the trust: they were transferred to neighboring raids, replaced from other raids. The ships that fell into disrepair were transferred for repair to other divisions of the trust, which is why it is not clear whether they were decommissioned or transferred to other divisions as they were restored. The mobilization of boats from the Sarapul Trust has not been established for certain, but it is very likely that boat No. 33, transferred in 1942 for overhaul, was eventually transferred to the front. The absence of mobilized vessels is explained by the strategically important tasks that the «Kamlesosplav’s» vessels solved, namely, the provision of timber for the lower Volga region.