About the book: 1976 / The book of Hero of the Soviet Union V. E. Lobanok "Partisans take the fight", first published by the publishing house of political literature in 1972, is dedicated to one of major battles of the people's avengers of Belarus with the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. For six months (from December 1943 to May 1944), the front-line Vitebsk partisan group in the Polotsk-Ushachi-Lepel region attracted several enemy divisions from the reserve of Army Group Center. The history of the heroic struggle of the partisans of the Vitebsk region against the punitive forces is the basis of the book. Using extensive documentary material and his personal impressions, the author - the head of the operational group of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus and the Belarusian headquarters of the partisan movement in the Polotsk-Lepel zone and a direct participant in the events described - talks about the main combat operations of the partisans, about the heroes of the battles. The author has supplemented this publication with new ones materials, made a number of corrections to it.