From the experience of organizing and operating fighter battalions in Western Ukraine in the 1940s-1950s

The paper reveals the regulation and practice of the activities of fighter battalions to combat nationalist gangs on the territory of Western Ukraine in the 1940s - 1950s from a historical and legal point of view. The research is based on archival materials of the Main Directorate of the Internal Troops of the NKVD, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security of the USSR, which were introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.