1st Czechoslovak Partisan Brigade of Jan Žižka

It was the most numerous partisan group in the Protectorate. The basis of the brigade was formed by an organizer airdrop from the Soviet Union, whose two groups landed in the area of Sklabina near Martin at the end of August 1944. The commander of the airdrop was Lt. Ján Ušiak, the chief of staff was Capt. Dajan Bajanovič Murzin, whose task was to support the insurgent activity within the Slovak National Uprising. During September 1944, the partisans crossed the border to Moravia and established a connection with the local resistance. The first commander, Ján Ušiak, was killed on November 3, 1944 in Čeladná, and the command was taken over by the Soviet officer Dajan Bajanovič Murzin. The brigade was active not only in the Beskydy area, but also in East Moravia; its units operated in the Kroměříž, Zlín and Vyškov regions, where they carried out a number of successful actions at the end of the war, e.g. the Olga squad captured the commander of the 16th Panzer Division, Major General Dietrich von Müller, at Count Dubský's castle in Hoštice.