Among the Soviet regular and partisan formations operating in the rear of the Nazi-occupied territory of the USSR in 1942, a special place is occupied by the group of troops of Lieutenant General P.A. Belov with all the partisans of the Dorogobuzh and Southern Elninsky partisan regions. In the work offered to the reader, for the first time, using the memories of participants in the events, information from local residents, and archival sources, specific military operations of the Belovtsy and Smolensk partisans against the Nazis and their accomplices during the main period of hostilities - from January to May 1942 in the rear of the Rzhev salient - are examined in detail. .The book is published in the author's edition.