Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-4907 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1913 (Online)


NKVD troops; nationalist groups; struggle against underground nationalists; Command of the interior troops of the Baltic district.

The Engagement of the NKVD Troops in the Struggle Against Nationalist Groups on the Territory of the Baltic States in the Final Period of the Great Patriotic War (1944–1945)

The article deals with the features of the service and combat activity
of the NKVD troops struggling against nationalist groups on the
territory of the Baltic states. The author characterizes the nationalist
organizations, operating in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and shows
the peculiarities of the forces’ units’ engagement in the struggle
against banditism in the Baltic republics.