Numerical and structural complement of the partisan detachment varied, with usual number of about 100 to several hundred personnel, organised in the 3—4 companies, 3 platoons each, 3 sections each.
Each detachment maintained primary structures of the Communist Party and Komsomol.
From 9 September 1942 the Belarusian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement[1] classified detachments by their numerical complement: 100–150, 151–350, 351 and more personnel.
By their objectives, detachments could be: common (unitary), diversionist-recon, cavalry, artillery, staff, reserve, local defense, marching.
On the BSSR territory (as in the 1941 borders), 1255 distinguishable detachments had operated in 1941–1944, majority of them in the structures of the partisan brigades, but 203 separately.