Некоторые малоизвестные эпизоды Мгинской операции лета 1943 г.
Poorly studied episodes of Mga offensive: summer 1943

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to poorly studied and little known episodes of Battle for Leningrad: offensive of Leningrad and Volkhov fronts during summer of 1943. The Soviet and Russian studies consider this operation as distracting one with primary goal of “grinding enemy divisions”. However the primary goal of operation was the taking of Mga settlement and railway station by the Volkhov front 8th Army troops and encirclement and destruction of German troops of 18th Army to the south of Ladoga lake. During the operation the heavy fighting for Sinyavino heights and fortified positions Voronovo, Tortolovo, Poretchie had been taken place. Red Army troops suffered heavy casualties without achieving much success.

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