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| Liberation of Kyiv. The most famous regrouping of the Great Patriotic War |
| 2024-11-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Video is translatable into English. And Rozhin is correct. The battles that ensued after the Dnepr River crossings near Lutezh are the most important maneuvers of the Great Patriotic War. [ColonelCassad] Military historian Alexey Isayev on the operation to liberate Kiev and the military trickery of the Red Army command with the transfer of an entire tank army from bridgehead to bridgehead. Liberation of Kiev. The most famous regrouping of the Great Patriotic War Abstract: The area north of Kiev was initially underestimated by the Soviet command as an operational direction in the Battle of the Dnieper in September 1943. Here it was necessary to overcome not only the Dnieper, but also the Desna, and on the right bank of the path of attack further to the west lay the Irpen and Teterev rivers. The wooded terrain was not conducive to the use of mechanized units, which were the Red Army's strength. On the contrary, the command of Army Group South gathered considerable infantry forces in this area under the command of the 4th Tank Army. In early October, the 5th Guards Tank Corps of A. Kravchenko advanced to the Lyutezh bridgehead occupied by the 38th Army. Its actions immediately sharply enlivened the battle north of Kiev. The Lyutezh bridgehead's finest hour came at the end of October 1943, when even nature itself supported the plans of the Soviet Headquarters. |
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