Belastok Region

Belastok Region, also known as Belastok Voblasts or Belostok Oblast, was a short-lived region (oblast) of the Byelorussian SSR during World War II, lasting from September 1939 until Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and again for a short period in 1944. The administrative center of the region was the city of Białystok (Belastok), which was annexed from Poland in 1939.

From 23 September to October 1939, the secretary of the central committee of the Belarusian SSR lived in Bialystok due to the protracted procedures for the transfer of the territories west of Bialystok by German troops to Białystok.

While the leaders of provincial boards and were immediately established at the level of the Central Committee and the Military Front Council, the lower structures (powiat, gmina) were established "in consultation with the military authorities", which most often boiled down to providing these authorities with the right to choose the right people from a proven, in-flowing party stream into these lands. As explained on 4 October 1939 at a meeting of the chairmen of the Provisional Boards and the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, "Temporary local boards – these are the organs of military power and the war council of this or other unit that is stationed in this area, has the right to direct the activities of the temporary administration, has the right and should do so within the framework of the applicable directives of the Front War Council and the Central Committee of the Byelorussian Communist Party.

Vladimir-Wulf Boruchowicz Gajsin served as chairman of the Provisional Board of the Voivodeship from 3rd of October 1939, then of the Provisional District Board, and finally from 4.12.1939 the first chairman of the Obispolkom. From November 29th, 1939, the composition of the Obispolkom included Sergey Ivanovich Maltsev as chairman, Semyon Stepanovich Igaev as 1st secretary of the Obkom, Samuil Semyonovich Kostiuk as 2nd secretary of the Obkom and Pyotr Andreevich Gladkov as head of the District Board of the NKVD. On April 23rd, 1940 after the end of the First Białystok District Conference, the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party decided to change the composition of the Party District Committee in Białystok with new composition which included Semyon Stepanovich Igaev as First Secretary, Filip J. Popov as Second Secretary, Aleksand I. Savalov as Third Secretary, Pyotr S. Spasov as Secretary for Personnel, Gavril I. Semyonov as Secretary for Propaganda and Sergei Ivanovich Maltsev as Chairman of the Obisplkom.

Since December 1940, Vladimir G. Kudrayev became the First Secretary of the Białystok District Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus. On June 22, 1941, the Bureau of the Białystok District Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia consisted of Vladimir G. Kudrayev as First Secretary, Andrei P. Elman as Second Secretary, Aleksander I. Anisimov as Third Secretary and Aleksander A. Kilbin as Secretary for Personnel. The official newspaper of the Belastok Region Party Committee and Białystok City Party Committee of the Communist Party of Byelorussia was Wolna Praca.

In April 1944 a special operational group was established, headed by D. K. Sukaczew, dismissed for this purpose from the oblast on 25 January 1944, which was to deal with reconstruction in triggered peripheral and district areas and municipal executive committees. Preparation also began operational groups from which activists of district committees were to be selected. Over 3,000 cadres who were selected underwent special training in Moscow and Gomel. On 18 April during the meeting of the Central Committee of the CP (b) B an action plan was approved Belostok Region for the coming months was approved. The office agreed to include a group of obek employees (operating in Moscow) together with the second secretary of the Belostok Obkom Andrei Elman as part of the operational group of the Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement operating under the command of the 1st Belorussian Front. P. Z. Kalinin, commander of BSzRP, commander of the operational group of the staff at the 1st Belarusian Front, and Andrey Elman organized communication with underground party organs and partisan units operating in the territory of the Bialystok region and help them by providing weapons and organizing the dispatch of propaganda literature.

And so, In May 1944, after several months of absence, Sukaczew returned to BZP, already as the chairman of the Regional Executive Committee of the Council of Workers' Delegates in Bialystok. On 15 May 1944, the authorities of the Białystok underground obkom issued a decision to issue more local newspaper.

Upon the liberation of the district headquarters, the secretaries of the district of Communist Party of Byelorussia and representatives of the district executive committees were to install there. Immediately they were to start establishing local self-government and party structures. All actions were due inform the secretaries of the circuit committee without delay. The implementation of this plan from the beginning was very difficult, as many branches failed to reach the designated areas. The situation was complicated by the fact that the Red Army stopped at the end of September on the Narew – Biebrza – Augustów Canal – Czarna Hańcza rivers, which caused that part of the Augustów region and located on the left bank of the Narew, the areas of the Grajewski, Łomżyński and Ostrołęka regions remained under German control. In spite of the failures in other areas, successive ones began installing Soviet power. He informed about installation in a designated area.