Partisans and Underground Resistance Fighters’ Day in Russia
June 29 · Level 10 · #60 of 2238
Russia’s Partisans and Underground Resistance Fighters’ Day honours those who resisted Nazi forces behind enemy lines during the Second World War. It remembers their operations, assistance to civilians and the dangers of clandestine work.
How it is celebrated: people lay flowers at memorials and graves, attend commemorative gatherings and visit museum exhibitions. Historians and relatives share stories preserved in archives and family memories.
The date recalls a directive issued on 29 June 1941. Just one week after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, it called for partisan units in occupied territory.