 Partisan united formation

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945, a Soviet partisan united formation (1941–1944) ( united formation), also called a military-operational group or a centre (), became one of the organisational forms which grouped together various Soviet partisan units.A united formation linked several of the smaller partisan units - partisan brigades or regiments or detachments - with a view to conducting wide-scale and center-coordinated military operations in the rear of occupying Axis forces.