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Volgogradskaya oblast
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| February 2 - Day of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) began on the right bank of the Don, more than 2 million people took part in it, and more than a million died. It was marked by the bloodiest street fighting in the destroyed Stalingrad and the incredible heroism of Soviet soldiers on three fronts, which shocked the Germans, destroyed Army Group B and undermined their morale. This battle marked the beginning of a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. The beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad is considered to be July 17, 1942. Then the vanguards of Paulus's 6th Army on the Chir and Tsimla rivers entered into battle with units of the 62nd and 64th armies of the Stalingrad Front. Completion - February 2, 1943, when the Nazi group surrendered, the basis of which was the remnants of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht, as well as units of the 8th Italian, 3rd and 4th Romanian and 2nd Hungarian armies in the Stalingrad cauldron . By mid-July 1942, in the Stalingrad direction, the enemy's superiority over the Red Army in aircraft was more than doubled. In tanks and artillery - 1.3 times. By the end of July - beginning of August, units of the 62nd and 64th armies were driven out by the Germans to the left bank of the Don. Under these conditions, on July 28, 1942, the State Defense Committee issued order No. 227, popularly known as “Not a step back!” On August 23, the city on the Volga was destroyed by the most massive daily bombing in the history of the war - 2 thousand sorties of the 4th Luftwaffe Air Fleet destroyed the city, where about 400 thousand people lived before the start of the fighting, killing a fifth of the townspeople. The tractor plant, under fire, continued to produce tanks that went into battle from the checkpoint. Reinforcements came from the left bank of the Volga by boats and barges. They were subjected to constant bombing by the Luftwaffe. On October 14, five German divisions launched an offensive supported by thousands of aircraft. By November 11, the Germans reached the Volga in a half-kilometer area. But they lost up to half of the personnel. On November 19, the Red Army counteroffensive began. The Stalingrad offensive operation was codenamed "Uranus". It began on November 19, 1942, after a powerful 80-minute artillery barrage and salvos of Katyusha rocket launchers. The troops of three fronts launched a counteroffensive: Southwestern, Stalingrad and Don (commander - General N.F. Vatutin) - General A.I. Eremenko) (commander - General K.K. Rokossovsky) The coordination of the actions of the three fronts was carried out by the Chief of the General Staff A.M. Vasilevsky. The main idea of the counteroffensive was a two-way envelopment of the enemy’s Stalingrad group with its subsequent encirclement and destruction. On November 23, in the Kalach-on-Don area, a huge fascist group trying to capture Stalingrad was surrounded. During December, Italian, Romanian and some German units were defeated. Attempts by Manstein's tank divisions to break through a corridor to Paulus were repulsed. In January 1943, the 6th Army was divided into two parts by Soviet attacks. Operation Ring - ended on February 2, 1943. The battles in Stalingrad (January 10 - February 2, 1943) a front-line military operation of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army against German troops during the Great Patriotic War, the final part of the Battle of Stalingrad. The purpose of the operation was to destroy enemy troops surrounded in Stalingrad. As a result of Operation Ring, 22 German divisions and 149 separate units were defeated, over 91 thousand people were captured, including 24 generals. Stalingrad was named a hero city for the first time on May 1, 1945 in the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. In 1965, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Regulations on the honorary title “Hero City” were approved. It was assigned to six cities, including Stalingrad. The city has over 200 historical sites associated with its heroic past. Among them are the memorial ensemble “To the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” on Mamayev Kurgan, the House of Soldiers’ Glory (Pavlov’s House) and others. In 1982, the Panorama Museum “Battle of Stalingrad” was opened. The day of February 2, 1943, in accordance with the Federal Law of March 13, 1995 “On Days of Military Glory and Memorable Dates of Russia,” is celebrated as the Day of Military Glory of Russia - the Day of the defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943) |