Memorial complex "Rassokha"

14 kilometers northwest of the village of Lozovoe, in the forested area of "Rassokha", there is a memorial complex dedicated to the feat of the partisans. During the Great Patriotic War, underground district committees of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Belarus and the Leninist Young Communist League (LKSMB), as well as the headquarters of the Osipovichi military operational group, were located here.

Seven kilometers from the village, on the forest edges of Rassokha, the partisans set up their camp. They built farm buildings and a hospital, and soon life in the forest entered its usual rhythm. In small groups, the partisans regularly went out on combat missions.

Carrying out important tasks of the Minsk Partisan Unit headquarters, Flegontov's cavalry detachment carried out active organizational work to strengthen the partisan forces. Soon Flegontov's detachment grew into a full-fledged brigade, which included the detachments of Tikhomirov, Liventsev, Filippskikh and Kuznetsov. The brigade became a formidable fighting force, well-armed and powerful. It had constant radio contact with Moscow, which allowed the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement to regularly supply it with the necessary weapons, ammunition and explosives.

At the end of November 1942, cavalrymen under the command of Bobkov, together with Tikhomirov's detachment, destroyed an enemy train in the area of the Talka station in the Pukhovichi district. The operation was carefully planned and prepared. The place for the sabotage was chosen on the Vereytsy-Talka stretch. The forest in this area and hidden approaches to the railway contributed to the success of the partisans. Under the cover of their comrades, sappers Agafonov and Kuznetsov quickly and professionally mined the railway.

As a result of the explosion, a train carrying a large Nazi military unit to the front was destroyed. In January 1943, partisans from Flegontov's brigade were killed during the blockade breakthrough near the village of Kamenichi. They were breaking out of the encirclement together with the detachment of Korol-Korolev, but this fact did not receive due attention in the memoirs of N.F. Korolev. On March 11, 1943, the legendary brigade commander A.K. Flegontov died in a battle near the village of Ignatovka along with 19 of his fighters. On April 29, 1943, the brigade was named after its deceased commander, A.K. Flegontov.

According to the order of the headquarters of the partisan movement, the brigade from September 19 to December 14, 1943, made a raid from the Cherven district to the Malorita district and became part of the partisan unit of the Brest region. The brigade operated in the Cherven and Pukhovichi districts of the Minsk, Osipovichi, Babruisk-Mogilev, Malorita, Divinsky-Brest regions.

The brigade joined the Red Army units on March 25, 1944, consisting of four detachments. It was attached to the 38th Guards Rifle Division and in its combat formations until April 16 held the defense near the village of Mokrany in the Malorita District, the village of Ossa in the Divinsky District, and the crossing over the Pripyat River near the village of Vetly in the Kamen-Kashirsky District of the Ukrainian SSR.

At the time of disbandment in June 1944, the brigade consisted of 895 partisans. It was established that the 44th detachment was organized in October 1942 on the basis of the sabotage group of I.D. Yurchenko, who arrived from the Soviet rear in September 1942 on the instructions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Belarus, and from residents of the Osipovichi and Chervensky districts. According to archival documents (report), it consisted of 25 people on October 20, 1942.

The fact that the detachment was formed in October 1942 is confirmed by an analysis of the dates of the replenishment of the personnel of the 44th detachment. For a number of partisans, the time of arrival in the detachment is listed as October 1942. For example, the partisan Volchok N.A. from the village of Lochin in the Osipovichsky district has the date of arrival as October 15, 1942. According to the reference book and archival documents, the number of partisans in the 44th detachment at the time of its disbandment on June 20, 1944 in the Brest region was 218.

The Osipovichi period of the Flegontov partisans was remembered for the following significant events:

1. The arrival of a cavalry unit in full uniform, with equipment and weapons, behind enemy lines caused admiration among local partisans, their commanders and civilians. This is unanimously mentioned in their memoirs by V. I. Liventsev, V. I. Kozlov, Lemeshenok and others.
2. Flegontovtsy provided significant assistance in arming and organizing the partisans' combat operations. They changed the tactics of combat: instead of ambushing small enemy groups, they began to plan full-scale operations. When a train derailed, the partisans entered the battle rather than retreating.
3. To coordinate actions and increase efficiency, the organization of partisan brigades was initiated in the Osipovichi region.
4. Regular, almost daily radio communication with Moscow and the Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement was established and maintained.
5. They established the production of printed materials: leaflets, combat leaflets and partisan "samizdat". Poems of partisan poets from Flegontov's detachment were published.
6. The weapons of the Flegontov partisans deserve special attention. Tikhomirov's detachment had two guns and about 600 shells for them. On horses, Flegontov's detachment delivered not only mines (including magnetic ones) and cartridges, but also anti-tank rifles (PTR). The use of PTRs is mentioned many times in the Flegontov diary, especially in the context of sabotage on the railway. In addition, local partisans learned from the Flegontovites how to make "silent" weapons with silencers, saddles for cavalry and other necessary things.

The Osipovichi-Cherven period of the Flegontov partisans ended on September 19, 1943, when the A.K. Flegontov brigade marched towards the Brest region.

The Osipovichi period of the Flegontov partisans' activities was distinguished by high productivity, activity and results. In my opinion, this is largely explained by the personal qualities, organizational skills and authority of A.K. Flegontov, as well as the "mighty" team that united under his leadership in October 1942. Tikhomirov, Filipskikh, Liventsev, Kuznetsov - all of them subsequently received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.