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| Remains of 11 Red Army soldiers were buried on the Day of Liberation of Melitopol |
| 2023-10-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The remains of 11 Red Army soldiers who died in late September - early October 1943 during the breakthrough of the German “Wotan Line” on the Molochnaya River were solemnly buried today, October 22, at a memorial near the village of Mordvinovka near Melitopol. As the director of the Melitopol Museum of Local Lore and the commander of the search party, Evgeny Gorlachev , told a Regnum correspondent, only one of the dead had a death medallion with him; he turned out to be Private Alexander Gavrilovich Sartakov from the 463rd Infantry Regiment, which captured the German bridgehead on the right bank of the Molochnaya. In total, search engines found the remains of 57 fighters during the season. As you know, the section of the German Eastern Wall along the Molochnaya River was so important that it received its own name: “Wotan Line”. It provided cover for Nikopol, a source of manganese, and protected the railway running through Melitopol, the main supply line to the Crimea. The city became a key defense point, which Soviet troops stormed from September 26 to October 23, 1943. Now there are plans to create a new memorial here. “This is for all residents of the Zaporozhye region, and soon for all residents of our large country, there will be an absolutely sacred place, comparable to the places of military glory in Rzhev, Sevastopol, Stalingrad, and the Kursk Bulge. These are places comparable in their importance for achieving victory in the Great Patriotic War , ” Nikolai Ovsienko , deputy chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, told IA Regnum. According to him, RVIO specialists are now assessing the scale of the work, and an international competition for the memorial project will be announced in the near future. And for the Day of Liberation of Melitopol, a “city of military glory” stele was erected in its center and a T-70 tank was put into operation. RVIO specialists prepared the car for participation in the parade in honor of the 80th anniversary of the city’s liberation from the Nazis. |
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