On its way, the armored boat came under German machine gun fire from the captured building of the State Bank, and a division engineer was wounded.Ī railway branch line clogged with wagons was laid along the quays. At 10:00, when it was already dawn, the division headquarters and the commander were the last to cross. The motorist of another boat refused to lead the barge to the shore and was shot. When crossing a boat with fighters was hit by a shell, 12 men were killed.
The station area was the key to the defense of the city center, the wide space of the railway tracks and the broad Communist Street made it possible to look far ahead and all around.ĭuring the night from September 14 to 15, following the units of the 42nd Guards Regiment, the 34th Guards Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel D.I. Chervyakov new objectives: to recapture the central station of Stalingrad and take up a circular defense there. Breaking the chain of subordination, the commander put the battalion commander Z.P.
This battalion became the notorious «last battalion» that turned out to have received direct orders from Chuikov. But contrary to commander Rodimtsev’s order, the guardsmen of the first battalion, passing the «houses of specialists» occupied by the Germans from the south, under cover of the steep bank, began to advance further into the city center. The first battalion of this regiment, reinforced by a company of machine gunners and several detachments of 45 mm guns, had already landed on the right bank with the task of clearing the crossing area from the Germans, thus securing a foothold on the bridgehead. Towards midnight, the 42nd Guards Regiment of Colonel I.P. 4 is still visible, and to the right the Refinery is burning In the distance, in the center of the picture, a whole chimney of mill No. The bank of the Volga opposite the brewery and the complex of buildings of the NKVD, the landing place of Colonel Elin’s 42 Guards Rifle Regiment. Explosions were visible on the shore and the sound of machine gun fire could be heard, which meant the Germans were already in the city and had reached the Volga. The opposite side of the river, glowing with fires, showed skeletons of high-rise buildings. There the half-tracks were delivering ammunition and food, which was stocked up by the soldiers and loaded onto boats and barges. The division commander was thinking about this and much more, standing on the eastern bank of the Volga. It now faced a river and a city where it had to fight and win, because there was no other way out.
On the evening of September 14, the 13th Guards Rifle Division concentrated in the area of the Krasnaya Sloboda, after having been urgently transferred to the area of Central Akhtuba the day before. His biography, like many of his peers who genuinely loved the motherland and communist ideals, in many ways resembled the lines of the famous Grenada poem of the 1920s by M. The division was commanded by Major-General Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev’s, a seasoned soldier who devoted his life to service and had two wars behind him: the Soviet-Finnish and the Spanish Civil War. The building of the State Bank after the August bombingīut the backbone of the division consisted in the paratroopers of the 5th Airborne Brigade, that benefited from the experience of fierce battles in the summer of 1942.
0 kommentar(er)
