Crimean resistance during World War II

Crimean resistance movement
Crimean resistance movement
	Flag of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the de jure government of Crimea throughout World War II
Leader	Various:; Alexei Mokrousov (1941–1942); Georgy Seversky (1942); Pyotr Seleznyov (1942–1943); Vladimir Bulatov (1943–1944);
Dates of operation	1941–1944
Ideology	Various:; Anti-fascism; Primary:; Marxism-Leninism; Stalinism;
Allies	Allies Soviet Union; ;
Opponents	Axis Nazi Germany; Kingdom of Romania; Slovak Republic; ;

The Crimean resistance movement during World War II refers to various decentralised groups who resisted the occupation of Crimea by Nazi Germany during World War II. Also often referred to by the term Crimean partisans, the resistance movement in the Crimean peninsula formed a significant part of the Soviet partisan movement during World War II, and included many of the peninsula's various ethnic groups, such as Russians, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars, and Greeks.

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