 On the territory of the BSSR about 40 such units developed in the period 1941 to 1944, mostly in 1943.The higher-level Soviet ruling bodies - the Headquarters of the Partisan Movement, the Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement, and underground Province, Inter-District and District Committees of the Communist Party - organised units of this kind.Usually, local Communist leaders or higher Red Army officers took command, and the staffs of the respective united formations carried out management functions.