2nd Kletnya Partisan Brigade was created in October 1942 from scattered detachments of Bryansk and Smolensk partisans (Commander A. N. Galyuga, Commissar P. V. Lebedev). The brigade consisted of four battalions and numbered more than a thousand people, actively interacted with the Command of the 43rd Army and the recon department of the Reserve Front. Since March 1943 the 2nd Kletnya Brigade was commanded by T. M. Korotchenko.