Partisan detachments in various regions of the USSR conduct combat operations against the enemy; deal with everyday problems in forest partisan camps; help the population of liberated territories establish a peaceful life during the war.




A detachment of partisans goes through the forest on skis.
Partisans in camouflage suits cross a river on skis.
1942-1943
Winter




A detachment of partisans in camouflage suits skis through the forest.
Winter




A group of partisans around a fire.
Several people are leaning over a map.




A partisan detachment walks through the forest on skis.
Winter




A detachment of partisans walks through the forest. (Autumn or spring).
Spring, Autumn




A partisan detachment is walking through the forest.
Autumn, Spring




Partisans buried a comrade.
Machine gun salute.
Partisans stand around the grave.




A detachment of partisans is walking along a village street.
Villagers are standing on the side of the road.
A group of partisans is riding in a cart.
One of the fighters is playing the accordion.




A group of partisans stack cartridges in a pile.




Several partisans are carrying a wounded comrade on an improvised stretcher.




The partisans took a "tongue".
Spring




A detachment of partisans walks through the reeds.
Summer




The partisans throw a grenade into the hut and run towards it.
Summer




Partisans lead prisoners out of the hut under escort.
Summer




The partisans cross the river by boat and by ford.




The signalman transmits a message.
Summer




Partisans mine the bridge.
The blown up bridge.
Summer




Faces of the partisans.
Summer




Faces of the partisans.
Summer




A detachment of partisans is walking along the road.
Horse-drawn convoys are carrying guns.
The commanders are examining the map.
Summer




A partisan detachment on horseback and on foot moves along the road.
The horses carry guns.
Summer




A partisan detachment is moving along the road.
There are wounded on the carts.
Summer




Steep river bank.
Partisans cross the river (on carts and on horseback).
Summer




The detachment commander on horseback.




The commanders are examining the map.
A detachment is moving along the road.
Summer




The partisans gathered in a circle and listened to what the commander was saying.
Summer




A woman shoots a rifle.
Machine gunner.




A machine gunner fires from a trench.
Summer




Formation of the detachment.
On command, the detachment set off.




A detachment of partisans moves along a forest road.
The horses are carrying guns.
Summer




The partisans are given rifles and cartridges.




Formation of a partisan detachment on a village street.
The detachment moves along the street.
Spring




The commander speaks to the assembled partisans.
Spring




The partisans advance slowly through the forest.
Summer




A group of partisans swims across a river on a raft.
A machine gunner is hiding in the bushes.
One of the partisans swims across the river.
Summer




Partisans mine the bridge.
Explosion.
Summer




The partisans are sitting in a circle, looking at a map.
A report is brought to the commander.
The typist is typing something under dictation.
Summer




Partisans running along the trench.
Shooting.
Taking prisoners.
Cleaning shells.
Summer




A man and a child stand on the ashes of a burnt village.
The bodies of the murdered villagers.
Summer




A woman on the ashes of a burnt village.
Walking slowly, examining the remains of the dead.




Burnt bodies.




The partisans are talking and laughing about something.
Autumn




Burning carriage.




Burning carriages.




Burning carriages on the railway tracks.




Partisans mine the road.
They saw off a pole.




Partisan camp.
Partisans cleaning their weapons.




The partisans gathered around the commander.
There are teenagers among the partisans.




An airplane camouflaged by branches.
A partisan detachment is walking along the road.
Winter




Partisans in the village.
A partisan reads a leaflet to his comrades.




A radio operator in headphones.
He hands one headphone to his comrade, and the two listen.
The partisans have gathered around their comrade, who is reading a leaflet.
Winter




The soldiers crawl through the snow, throwing grenades into the bushes where the enemy is holed up.
The infantry goes on the attack.
Winter




The partisan loads the gun and fires.
The soldiers roll the gun.
The machine gunner covers the infantry.
Winter




Battle.
The infantry goes on the attack.
The machine gunner covers the infantry.




The fighters run to attack.




The fighters run to attack, taking weapons from the dead along the way.
The bodies of the dead in the snow.
The frame of a stove.
Winter




The partisans leave the village.
They carry guns on horses.
Winter




A partisan detachment is walking along a village street.
Residents are standing on the side of the street.
They are seeing the detachment off, waving their hands.
Winter




The commander receives a report.
The partisans are in a hut, looking at a map.




A group of fighters waves at a flying plane and shoots into the air.




The pilot gets out of the plane.
His comrades greet him.
The pilot gives them cigarettes.




A group of partisans in a hut discuss the next operation and look at a map.




Partisans are riding in carts.
Spring




A detachment of partisans is moving along a village road.
Peasant women are standing on the road.
Summer




A detachment is moving along the road.
Reindeer are carrying luggage on sleds.
Spring




The detachment is walking across the tundra.
The reindeer are carrying the luggage.
Spring




Partisans ford a river.




The partisans walk through the forest ankle-deep in water.
Spring




Partisans walk through the spring forest
Spring




The commander reads out some paper in front of the lined-up members of the partisan detachment.
Spring




The partisan reads some paper and signs it.




The infantry goes on the attack.
Summer




The fighters shoot while lying on the grass.
Summer




Partisans walking down the street.
A fighter crawls with a weapon in his hands.
A burnt village, the remains of ovens.
Summer




Fighters run past a bombed-out building.
They shoot as they go.
A burning village.
A horseman races down the street.
Two horsemen gallop down the street.
Fighters with weapons pass by a burning house.
Summer




A detachment of partisans is walking along a village street.
Summer




A detachment of partisans is walking along a village street.
Residents are standing on the side of the road.
Summer




The soldiers load the gun.
They shoot.




Funeral of the fallen soldiers.
The commander speaks to the assembled crowd.
Villagers.
Bodies of the fallen.
The soldiers take off their hats and throw handfuls of earth into the grave.
A rifle salute.
The grave.
A pyramid with a star.




Partisans mine railway tracks.




A partisan mines a wooden bridge.
Summer




Mining the bridge.




The fighters are lying on the grass with weapons.
They are watching the bridge.




Partisans chop down and saw off power transmission poles.




The partisans are mining the area.
Summer




A mounted detachment passes through a village.
It is seen off by village women.
A foot detachment passes along the street, an armored car passes by.
A village woman hands over food to the fighters.
Summer




A detachment passes through a burning village.




A detachment of partisans slowly advances through the forest.




A partisan detachment is moving through the forest.
Spring




The partisans are warming themselves by the fire.
Melting snow in a pot.
Eating porridge.
Winter




A group of partisans on skis walks through the forest.
Winter




A meeting of two groups of partisans in the forest.
The partisans lay down their captured weapons.
Winter




Burning huts.
Winter




Burning hut.
Partisans cut down power transmission poles.
Winter




A detachment of partisans walks through a winter forest.
Winter




Partisans run out of the hut and start shooting.
Spring




Fight in the village.
Spring




Bodies in the snow.
Burning village.
Winter




Burning village.
Bodies in the snow.
A fighter takes a weapon from a dead man.
Fight in the village.
Winter




The pilot gets out of the plane and greets the people who meet him.
Winter




They unload boxes and weapons from the plane.
They load it onto sleds.




Presentation of party cards(?).




A peasant plowing a field on a horse.




A peasant plows a field with a pair of horses.




Harrowing a field with horses.
Peasants sow grain by hand.




Order of the chief of staff of the partisan movement.




Partisans crawling towards the railway.
They plant explosives under the rails.
Partisan girls.
Explosions.
Overturned carriages.
Autumn




A partisan shaves, having placed a mirror on a weapon.
Another partisan washes himself.
Summer




The partisans ford the river.
They help a wounded comrade get to the shore.
Summer




Partisans plant explosives under the rails.
They cut down a telegraph pole.
Winter




A group of military and civilians inspect an enemy dugout.




The children lie in bed, covered with a blanket.
The prisoners are led under guard.
The children beat them with twigs.
Winter




The villagers gather and listen as a partisan reads out the sentence to the captured German.
The prisoner is shot.




Panorama of the partisans' faces.
In the foreground are teenagers.
A medal is on the chest of one of them.




Parade.
Cavalry passing.
A detachment of partisans passes.




A small group of partisans runs through the forest.
Summer




A group of prisoners surrender their weapons and belongings.
Summer




The partisans lay down in the grass and began fighting.




The infantry is fighting.
A group of prisoners is being led under escort.
Summer




The partisans captured several prisoners.
Summer




A machine gunner shoots.
Shooting from a gun hidden in the bushes.
Summer




Partisan parade on the occasion of the liberation of Minsk.
Troops marching.
A tank passing.
Horses carrying guns.
A goat named Malysh, the mascot of the partisan detachment "Borba", runs among the partisans.
1944
Summer




Partisan parade.
Tribune with representatives of the leadership.




The partisan detachment lined up in a row.
A group of commanders in front of the formation.




A detachment of partisans walks along the edge of the forest.
Summer




Cavalry passes along the road, followed by a foot detachment of partisans.




A partisan detachment walks along the street of a liberated village.




Residents of the liberated village meet the partisans.
Summer




A detachment of partisans walks down the street.




Panorama of the partisans' faces.




A man gives a wounded (or sick) person something to drink.
Inventory of captured weapons.




A man cleans a gun.
A woman irons.




The men run out of the bathhouse for water, and after collecting the water, they run back.




The man sharpened his razor and shaved his friend.




A man shaves his friend.
A girl and a guy are walking along a forest path, the guy is playing the accordion.




Partisans plant explosives on the railway.
Summer




Steam locomotive.
Burning train.




Execution of a prisoner.




Burning hut.
Burning village.




A man at the map explains something to the listeners.




Close-up of a man explaining something.




The military are at some kind of meeting.




Military personnel at a meeting.




Printing leaflets in the hut.




The peasants are harrowing, the women are throwing seeds from baskets into the ground.




Agricultural work




The partisan detachment lined up on the street.
Awarding.
Winter




German prisoners are led under guard along a village street.
Summer




The partisan reports something.
The detachment is walking through the forest.
Autumn




Close-up: fire.
Bodies of the dead.




Partisans mine the railway tracks.
Explosion.
Summer




A female partisan passes a note to a fellow partisan.




A man watches a girl in the forest.
The girl puts a note in a hollow.




An officer is writing something at the table.
Panorama of the line of soldiers.




A partisan is writing something down, sitting on a bench near a hut.
Several prisoners are lined up in front of him.




The soldiers take off their tunics and change into civilian clothes.




Repeat of the previous passage.




A detachment of partisans is walking along the road.
A wounded man is being carried in a cart.