Rank: Red army Branch of military: Land Forces, Air Forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, NKVD troops, border guards. 16th SMOLENSK PARTISAN BRIGADE, which fought Krasovskii Ephraim I. created 28 Jul 1942 in Casblanca district of Smolensk region based on units Telishevska V. I. and A. S. Leshcheva, allocated to the 3rd brigade connection "dad". Later, 6 more detachments were organized as part of the brigade. Until the spring of 1943, the brigade was called the 5th, operated in the Smolensk region (in the Kasplyansky and Rudnyansky districts), in March 1943. relocated in Vileyka and Vitebsk region of Belarus. During three years of fighting, the brigade defeated 16 punitive detachments, suppressed 53 enemy garrisons, destroyed several thousand enemy soldiers and officers, and derailed dozens of echelons. The brigade's combat path ended in Lithuania on the outskirts of Vilnius. It joined the Red Army on July 4, 1944 as part of 7 detachments with a total of 637 partisans. Brigade commanders: T. G. Davydkin (July 1942-August 1942), I. R. Shlapakov (August 1942 - July 1944); Commissars: D. T. Golnev (July 1942 - September 1943), a.m. Kulichkov (October 1942-October 1944), G. N. Timoshenkov (March 1944-July 1944). Krasovsky Efrem Ivanovich partisan, commander of the anti-tank gun unit, fought in partisan detachments from the beginning of the war. He passed a glorious military path as part of the 16th Smolensk partisan brigade and died heroically in battle with the German-fascist invaders on June 27, 1944, a week before the partisan brigade joined the red Army. Posthumously awarded the order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.