Georgi Benkovski Partisan Brigade

The Georgi Benkovski Partisan Brigade was a division of the Third Pazardzhik Insurgent Operational Zone of NOVA during the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II.

The two detachments separated after a major battle with the police and gendarmerie in the Konska Polyana area on August 28, 1943.

[4] In July 1944, the detachment grew to the size of a Brigade, consisting of four companies named 'Raina Knyaginya', 'Bozhko Ivanov', 'Todor Kableshkov', and 'Polska'.

At this time the Commander was Ivan Vrachev, the political commissar was Stoyan Michev,[5] and the Chief of Staff was Georgi Momekov.

On September 9, 1944, the partisans of the brigade took part in the establishment of the Fatherland Front in the towns of Koprivshtitsa, Klisura, and Panagyurishte.