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Hello! I want to tell you about"Liberation of the Zaporizhzhia region from Nazi invaders" Liberation of Zaporizhzhia (22 1945) June 1941 - May 9, the liberation war of the Soviet people against fascist Germany and its allies.  June 22, 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union and launched an offensive on its territory.  It was Ukraine that sued the first horrors in the Summer to know all of the 1942 invasion of Hitler.  G. the whole territory of Ukraine was captured.  The occupation began on August 17 and ended on October 28 and lasted from September 11, 1943 to February 8, 1944.  Zaporizhzhia region 1941

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The feat of the crew of Lieutenant Yatsenko's T-34 tank during the liberation of Zaporizhzhia.
After the city was cleansed of the Nazis, in the evening of October 14, 1943 Zaporizhzhia was notified and the Komsomol crew with the commander Lieutenant Yatsenko accepted the battle with self-propelled guns of the enemy. They were very calm, and we are alive, we will smash the enemies. These were the last words of Mr. Yatsenko to his commander.
For this feat, Lieutenant Yatsenko was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" - posthumously. The remaining crew members were awarded orders. In these battles, the crew of the tank of Lieutenant Yatsenko destroyed 4 tanks and self-propelled guns, 6 guns and mortars, 7 machine guns, 7 vehicles, 10 firing points and more than 100 fascist soldiers and officers. In Zaporozhye, T-34-85 tank was installed on Sovetskaya Square in honor of the feat of crew of N. L. Yatsenko.
To my mind the crew of Lieuutinant Yatsenko's tankT-34 is one of the striking examples of the courage and power of the army and folk in those days!

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Hello!  Please read the article by Ann Dikarevа before reading it, otherwise you will not understand what is being discussed in my article.
The exhibits found by members of the Search group are of great interest in the museum.  The museum has photos of brave people:
Alexei Danilov - Commander of the 12th Army,
Georgii Afanasyev - Commander of the 244th Infantry Division,
Vladimir Sudets - Marshal of Aviation, Commander of the 17th Air Army - 90th Infantry Regiment  - Rifle Division,
Gavril Zdanovich - Commander of the 203rd Rifle Division.
Students linger for a long time near the display cases, where the finds, relics of the past are presented: the uniform of General - Lieutenant Danilov, the coat of Staff Sergeant Mykola Tymonin, a former spy, son of the 292nd Regiment of the 203rd Division.  With awe, the students look at the cap of an unnamed hero, a soldier of the 244th Division, a rifle of one of the liberators of the city, soldier's ammunition shot by enemy bullets: a field marching flask, a trench shovel, a marching cauldron.
It is impossible to read without worries the front-line diary "Day after day" of the officer of the 244th division Veretennikov  for 1943 or the last letter of Weiner  to his wife Alexandra, found in clothes after his execution by the Nazis.
As for me, our school museum is very interesting and informative.  I advise everyone to visit it.
In the photo you can see this museum, the stands and exhibits that are in it.

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Hello! I would like to tell you about our school museum.
The WW2 Museum Glory of the 244th Rifle Division is the center of patriotic education for students of school 67.
The WW2 Museum of Glory was created at the school in May 1971. The organizer of the museum was a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, a veteran of World War II -Hryhoriy Potapenko. He conducted extensive research work in the museum with students, collected with them invaluable material about the feats of our people in the war.
In March 2008, the museum came under the leadership of history teacher Sobolenko Julia Petrovna.
At present, members of the school group, students of 6-B, 8-A, 9-A classes conduct interesting excursions in honor of October 14 and May 9.
As far as I can tell, our museum play a great role in patriotic education for students of different schools.

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I want to tell you about teachers-veterans  of Zavodskiy district.
Gritsaenko Vasily Rodionovich
World War II Veteran, teacher of Labor.
Potapenko Grigory Timofeevich
Underground fighter. Veteran of labor, teacher of Ukrainian language and Literature.
Kirichenko Leonid Fillipovich
He was deputy battalion commander of 222 separate fighter division.  He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 8 military medals. Veteran of labour.  Director of secondary school No. 67 in 1973-1979.
Tronkina Polina Fedorovna
Sanitary instructor 341 medical sambat of the 1052th Berlin-Guards Regiment 5 successful army.  Has combat awards.  Veteran of labor, excellent student of public education.  In 1951-1976 a primary school teacher.
Bushtruk Vladimir Antonovich
Head of aerial photography intelligence  of the 174th Guards Air Regiment. Has combat awards. Veteran of labour, from 1953-1978 teacher of the Ukrainian language and Literature.

Let's remember the great sacrifice of our teachers!

You can see Grygoriy Potapenko in the photo

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Tоday I want to tell you about the Zaporizhzhia operation (October 10-14, 1943).
After the conquest of the city, the Nazis created a Zaporizhzhia bridgehead 40 km long and 20 km deep prepared for a long defense. The German army lost 23,000 soldiers and officers, 160 tanks, 430 cannons and mortars, and many other equipment in the battle for the city.
On September 23-24, the crossing of the Dnieper between Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia was started. Soviet soldiers advancing in the Zaporizhzhiа way met fierce resistance from opponents. In the following battles, they managed to break through the enemy defenses.
For my opinion the elimination of the Zaporizhzhia bridgehead removed the threat of the enemy from the south, advancing in the Dnepropetrovsk direction, and also created good conditions for the isolation of enemy troops in the Crimea.

You can see in the photo Dneproges which was partly destroyed by enemy soldiers, and Soviet soldiers with a civilian.

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On May 9 our nation celebrate the victory in World War II. The German Empire declared war on the Soviet Union and launched an offensive on its territory.  It was our territory that judged  horrors of the Nazi invasion the first.  In the summer of 1942 the entire territory of present-day Ukraine had been captured.
The occupation of the Zaporizhzhia region began on August 17 and ended on October and lasted from September 11, 1943 to February 8, 1944.  January 28, 1941 Even so, German Empire had a more modified weapon.  They used such weapons as KwK 39 "Panther" "Tiger" 10.5 cm leFH 18 and others.
The Focke-Wulf FW-190 was also quite popular  .  German  single-engine reciprocated monoplane fighter, which was in service with the Luftwaffe during World War II. One of the best fighters of its time.  Fw 190 has increased firepower and maneuverability at low and medium height.
Despite all the above, I believe that everyone knows how much has been done for us by  heroes in those difficult times.

On the photo you can see The Focke-Wulf FW-190 .

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My great-grandfather Avramenko Vasily Maksimovich (1913-1972) Hero Of The Soviet Union (19.03.1944). The participant of the great World War II from 1941. Participated in the defense of the Crimea. He fought in the South, Stalingrad, South-West and 3  Ukrainian fronts.
On the night of 28 September 1943, he was in the office, crossed to the right Bank with the first echelon.  Assessing the combat situation, he made his way to the trenches of the enemy and destroyed the machine-gun point, which prevented the advance of troops, and threw grenades into the dugout. It was destroyed by ten fascists, and three were taken prisoner.
Only in the battles for the Dnieper he killed thirty, and captured three fascists.
For courage, bravery and heroism in the struggle against fascist invaders, the red army Avramenko Vasily Maksimovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the order of Lenin and medal "gold Star". But by mistake a staff clerk he received the award in 1952.

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My great-grandma Korban Nina Stepanivna was born on the 28 th of June in 1927 in the village Menchikury, Veselovsky district. There were three children in her family and she was the eldest one. From 1930 to 1934 they survived the famine. In 1941, in the beginning of war her father went to the front. A week later, a letter arrived stating that he had died. Also the great-grandma told that the fighting weapon got to a window to their house and the house was covered with the ground. At the age of 15 she helped the wounded. 6 times she ran away from invaders. For some time they went to work in Zaporozhye ran together several times and returned to Zaporizhzhia. So, my great-grandma told me a story that really impressed me and made me think. When the Germans took them to the cars she and two other friend tried to run away. When they were spotted, soldiers started firing at them and unfortunately only two girls were able to escape. They were my great-grandmother and her friend. After that, they ran barefoot about 50 km to their homes. After the war, the family was consisted of mother and only two children. Now she lives in Zaporizhzhia and during her life she raised a daughter, two granddaughters and two great-granddaughters

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Lyudmila Mikhailovich Pavlichenko - Soviet sniper of the 25th Chapaev Rifle Division of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army.  The hero of the USSR.  After the end of World War II, until 1956, she was an officer of the General Staff of the Navy of the USSR with the rank of Major of the Coastal Service.
The most successful female sniper in world history is 309 enemy soldiers and officers destroyed.  With the filing of American journalists, she received the nickname "Lady Death" [1].  However, this nickname was used exclusively by the American and European press, since in the USSR the image for the perception of the mass audience was not promoted in this way.  In the USSR, the image of the honored hero and war veteran was assigned to her

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My great-grandfather Fyodor Petrovich Kirichenko was born in 1914 in the village of Orlyanka. He was born in a large family. He was a major in a tank brigade, served at the border, defended the city of Grodno from attack by fascist invaders.  He died in the first days of the war, defending his homeland. He was erected a monument in the city of "Grodno" as a hero of the Soviet Union. In honor of him they named the street in "Orlyanka" by his last name "Kirichenko." I am proud of my great-grandfather.

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Defense Zaporizhzhia
The defense of Zaporizhzhia was conducted from August 18 to October 3, 1941.  As a result of the fact that about.  Khortytsya was occupied by enemy troops, the evacuation of industrial enterprises of the city was much more complicated.  On the night of September 3–4, Red Army and militia detachments crossed the Dnipro and landed on Fr.  Khortytsia.  After the liberation of the island, shelling of enterprises and the city was significantly weakened, which allowed for the dismantling and evacuation of industrial enterprises and the population.  In a short time, the Cossacks managed to take out 22 factories of national importance, 26 enterprises of the light and food industries, and institutes, educational institutions, a theater, and a museum were evacuated.  The defense of the city lasts a month and a half.

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I want to tell about Dnipro HPP.
Soviet troops sought at all costs to prevent the invaders from destroying the Dnieper hydroelectric station. To destroy the station, the Nazis drove more than 200 thousand kg of explosives. To destroy the dam alone, they carefully planted 40 thousand kg of explosives into its body, and laid 100 aviation bombs

For almost two months, scouts every night examined the dam, which was under German control. Passed a huge network of underground corridors and tunnels inside the concrete body of the Dnieper. They did not just cut the explosive cables, but pulled out their many-meter pieces. Military experts call this operation unprecedented in degree of complexity and effectiveness. When, on the night of December 29-30, 1943, our troops unexpectedly advanced, the Nazis tried to turn on the "infernal machine." In my opinion Soviet troops did everything to protect us from enemies.they defended the homeland!I think that these people are worthy of our respect and reverence for them !!

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Hey. I hope you have read the article by Sofia Sipakova. If not, then so that you can understand what I'm talking about, please read. Well, I will continue.
The order for the explosion was given by the commander of the 1st Tank Army of the Wehrmacht, Mackensen, and the direct responsibility for the activation of the charge lay with the commander of the 40th Panzer Corps, General Henrici. But there was no explosion! ..
In the galleries of the surviving Dneproges, half of the reconnaissance group remained.
Odessa Petya Starodub killed on the Polish border.
The name of intelligence officer Abdarakhman Shabanov is carved in Berlin Treptower Park among those who fell in recent battles.
The family of Staff Sergeant Nasibulla Yamalov from Bashkiria received a funeral after the Oder. But the sergeant returned alive with two orders of the Red Star and the medal "For Courage."
Only he, captain Soshinsky and lieutenant Kuruzov reached the Victory. A German attempt to blow up the Dnieper hydroelectric dam was among the points of indictment of German war criminals during the Nuremberg trials.
What can I add from myself?  I am proud of those people who gave their lives for the defense of Zaporizhzhia! After all, who knows what we would have now, if not for them.

You can see in the photos the captain Soshinsky Nasibulla Yamalov

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The German occupation of Zaporizhzhia lasted 2 years and 10 days. During this time, the Germans shot more than 35 thousand people and sent 58,000 people to Germany for forced labor. The Germans used forced labor, mainly prisoners of war, to try to restore the Dnieper hydroelectric power station. Local residents established an underground resistance organization in the spring of 1942.

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I want to tell about the participant of the World War 2, Nikolai Gonchar.

In April 1942, an underground organization was established Gonchara, former employee of Zaporizhstal. Since September 1942, they were part of the partisan detachment of Kopenkin, and then they led an underground group with occupants.The underground members gathered weapons,getting ready for a campaign against the nazis, with the approach of our troops, helped the fugitives, didn't allow the nazis to expand production. Underground members workers saved youth from transportation to Germany, threw metal "hedgehogs" under the wheels of enemy cars.The group members organized diversions, collected weapons and ammunition. On September 14, 1943, the leader of the group, Gonchar and a number of other active members of the group, were shot after severe torture. Before his death, Gonchar wrote a letter to his mother:

September 13, 1943

Mommy!
Got everything you handed over, but probably all in vain, they should shoot us before Sunday. Mommy, dear. How do I want to live! Pass the apples today ...
I kiss everyone except Vali, because of her I die.
We must remember and value those who defended us!

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I want to tell about my great-grandfather. Babenko Hryhoriy Yosypovych was born on April 22, 1917. He worked at the plant №29 of the "People's Commissariat of Aviation Industry".
My great-grandfather and the whole plant were evacuated to Siberia. In 1943 he was called from the city of Omsk to the front. The fighting took place in the trenches and due to severe frosts he lost his teeth. He was a machine gunner and a tanker. During the fighting he received 3 wounds: in the neck, chest and leg, but this did not prevent great-grandfather to survive and continue the fight for the Motherland. The last injury was severe, so Hryhoriy Yosypovych became a sanitary instructor. He reached Berlin and was at the front until the end of the war. The title "Veteran of the Great Patriotic War." He was awarded the medal "For Courage". Died for 2 months before his 89th birthday.

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Developing the offensive for the liberation of Ukraine, on September 14, 1943, Red Army troops entered the territory of the region. The Nazis wanted to keep Zaporizhzhia at all costs. For them, this was a key milestone in protecting the still occupied Crimea and Kryvyi Rih.
Connection of the South-Western Front of General R.Ya. Malinowski came close to Zaporizhzhia. At the Military Council with the participation of the outstanding Soviet commander A.M. Vasilevsky was decided to take Zaporizhzhia by night assault. Here, in Zaporizhzhia, for the first time in the history of wars, such a night assault on a large city with the participation of large tank forces was used
On the afternoon of October 14, Soviet troops liberated the city and reached the Dnieper. At 11.30 p.m. on October 14, Moscow saluted to the valiant warriors-liberators of Zaporizhzhia.
I believe that the commanders of the detachments who fought for our hometown deserve respect, because they did everything to save our city from the Nazis.

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I want to talk about our compatriot . Konstantin Velikiy was born in 1923 in Zaporszhzhia in a working class family.   After the occupation of the city by German troops, he joined a partisan detachment, was a scout ...
On the night of October 25-26, 1943, the Great, along with three other scouts, crossed the Dnieper to the island of Khortytsya.  Secretly stepping deep into the island, the reconnaissance group discovered a firing point and threw grenades at it.  The group took an active part in the capture of two enemy trenches.  In battle, Velikiy destroyed the machine-gun point with grenades, and then killed four enemy soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.  The next day, the enemy launched 6 enemy counterattacks on the positions of the Soviet troops.  The battle passed into melee several times, but all counterattacks were successfully repelled.  When the ammunition ended, Velikiy, collecting all the wounded on the left flank of the bridgehead, pelted the enemy with stones.  In hand-to-hand combat, he destroyed three more enemy soldiers.  Being wounded, the Great did not leave the battlefield, continuing to hold the bridgehead until reinforcements arrived.  They fought for us to live ...

On the photo you can see Konstantin Velikiy

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October 14 - Day of the liberation of Zaporizhzhia from the Nazi invaders.
The fascist invaders were also approaching our land.  Prior to the liberation of Zaporizhzhia, Soviet troops liberated the Donbass and Left-Bank of Ukraine, the Dnieper was boosted and 23 bridgeheads formed on its right bank.  In 1943  Zaporizhzhia was liberated during the Zaporizhzhia offensive operation.

The city was stormed at night by the forces of several Soviet armies.  Successful actions created favourable conditions for the attack on the Krivoy Rog, and also saved from the complete destruction of the Dnieper.

The eternal flame and the monuments to the liberators are still witnesses of fierce battles for the city and a symbol of the heroic resistance of the townspeople and the Soviet army.

A reminder to future generations of the heroic liberation of Zaporizhzhia is the eternal flame, monuments and memorials in the city.

We will always remember the millions of Ukrainians who died in the fire of war, and we are proud of their courage.

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I would like to tell you about Zaporizhzhia operation.

The operation began on October 10th. After four days of stubborn fighting, the front troops broke through the external and intermediate lines of defense and on October 13th reached the near approaches to Zaporizhzhia. At 22:00 the same day the assault began. More than 200 tanks and self-propelled guns were thrown to capture. After the previous intense and fierce day battle, the attacks overwhelmed the enemy, but he soon came to his senses and put up stubborn resistance, while simultaneously trying to transfer his units to the right bank of the Dnieper. On October 14th, the operation ended. The city was liberated.
In five-day battles, German troops lost 23 thousand soldiers and officers, more than 160 tanks and assault guns, 430 guns and mortars.
The southern front went to the flank and rear of the Melitopol group of German troops, to the lower reaches of the Dnieper. The elimination of the Zaporizhzhia bridgehead removed the threat of the enemy from the south to Soviet troops advancing in the Dnepropetrovsk direction, and also created favourable conditions for the isolation of enemy troops in Crimea.
For the first time in World War II, a night assault on the city was carried out by a large group of troops.
Now, in Zaporizhzhia there are monuments to people who fought for this city. They risked their lives for their family and us. I think they should be respected and not forgotten.

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The World War II (June 22, 1941-May 9, 1945) - the liberation war of Soviet fascist Germany and its allies.  It was Ukraine that was first come to know all the horrors of the Nazi invasion.  In the summer of 1942, the entire territory of Ukraine was captured.  The occupation of Zaporizhzhia region began on August 17 and ended on October 28, 1941. The liberation lasted from September 11, 1943 to February 8, 1944.
I think that after the war our city became much better, new endeavors, new technologies and other things. But a lot of things have not changed, a couple remained a monument to the memory of this war

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In October 1943, in the battle for the village of Verbove (now Gnarovske), a sanitary instructor, Komsomol member from the Leningrad region Valeria Gnarovska, died heroically.
The health instructor of the 907th Rifle Regiment (244th Rifle Division, 12th Army, South-Western Front) Valeria Hnarovska saved the lives of many soldiers and officers.
Only in the battle near the village of Gola Dolyna, Slovyansky district, Donetsk region of Ukraine, she took 47 wounded from the battle field. Defending the wounded, she killed more than 20 enemy soldiers and officers.
During the battle near Verbov, Nazi tanks approached the place where the wounded lay. Valeria, with a bunch of grenades, rushed to meet the enemy "tiger" and blew it up. The girl saved dozens of wounded with her life. By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 3, 1944, Red Army soldier Valery Yosypivna Gnarovskaya was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for exemplary performance of command tasks and courage and heroism in battles with Nazi invaders.
She was awarded the Order of Lenin, a medal.
An obelisk was erected at the site of the heroine's death, near the Moscow-Simferopol highway.

     In my opinion, Valeria Hnorovska will forever live in our hearts. We are grateful for her courage, determination and patriotism towards our own country, thanks to which we were able to see this world.

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Every day I think about people who can be said: “They are from a legend!” What do they remember about them in our city? Does a schoolboy who has not given up a place in transport an old man or an old woman know what these people did for him personally? All of them are people of the highest sense of duty, in the fire of war that separates life from death, they showed fortitude, stamina, courage, the ability to withstand in any circumstances. In the trials, they did not think about themselves, about saving their own lives. Each of them, contemplated the fear of death. And he won! I often wonder what had to endure in my lifetime these, sometimes invisible, silent old people. We must remember the past, we must go to the Victory Parade, we must give flowers to veterans. This is the only thing that we can do for those who did not live up to 1945, burned alive, strangled in gas chambers, shot and tortured.
Back in 2003, our Museum of  Glory of the 244th Rifle Division of Zaporizhzhia educational school 67 was visited by Shestak Nikolay Minovich, hero of the World War II, liberator of the city of Zaporizhzhia. He came to the front in 1943 at the age of 17, his first battles were near Moscow, then Stalingrad and his entourage. Nikolai Minovich walked along the military roads of Tokmak, Manganese, Nikopol, liberated Zaporizhzhia, and met Victory Day in Bulgaria. When he visited our school, the hero had 18 orders and medals on his chest! The motto in his battles was the phrase that his father often said, “Help out a comrade in battle. You will save his life, and he will save yours. ” He forever remained in the memory of not only our hero, but also all those who fought until the last breath, to the last drop of blood, to the last projectile released.
These years left a big mark on everyone's hearts. We must remember those who fought for our freedom, and teach this to the next generation. After all, we are the last who can hear the stories of War Veterans.

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Now I tell you about Zaporizhzhia during the occupation.
During the German occupation, the city administration was appointed in the city, headed by the mayor. During the occupation, there were two mayors: one from the local Germans, Mennonites, the other from Ukraine. The administration consisted of the following departments: general, German, managerial, agricultural, housing section, personnel, trade, taxes, industry, finance, urban economy, transport, education, health and social security. Before the war, about 300 thousand people lived in the city. A part of the inhabitants left for the Red Army in 1941, a part was evacuated with factories, a lot of young people were hijacked to work in Germany. During the occupation, the Germans conducted a census, according to it, on May 1, 1942, 103,375 people lived in Zaporizhzhia. In total, 43 thousand people were killed by occupiers in Zaporizhzhia, and 58 thousand were sent to forced labour in Germany!

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We want to tell about "Liberation of Zaporizhzhia".
On October 14, 1943, Soviet  liberated Zaporizhia from Nazi invaders. October 14 as a result of violent military clashes from 10 to 14 October 1943. As part of the Zaporizhzhian offensive, the city of Zaporizhzhia was liberated from Nazi created. In total, the troops of three fronts were involved in the offensive: Stepnoy, South-West and South, renamed October 2, 1943 in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian, respectively. At the time of the Lower Dnieper strategic offensive operation, the fronts were commanded by Marshal I.S. Konev, Army General R.Ya. Malinovsky and Army General F.I. Tolbukhin.

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In 1943, after a series of unsuccessful attempts to drive Zaporizhzhia from the Nazis, on October 10, General Malinovsky launched a new attack.  The Nazis resisted, but suffered significant losses.
And on October 13, the Red Army launched a powerful tank assault and by the end of the day completely ousted the invaders from the city.  And already on October 14 Zaporizhzhia was liberated from the Nazis.
We remember our heroes, they saved our lives and our future! We are proud of them and decided to create this post to remember them always!

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Developing the offensive for the liberation of Ukraine, on September 14, 1943, Red Army troops entered the territory of the region.
Hitler arrived here in February 1943 to determine the defensive line and reform the fronts. In September 1943, the Nazi Fuhrer again brought here. He demanded from the commander of the Army Group "South" Field Marshal Manstein at any cost to keep Zaporizhzhia, Melitopol and other nodes of resistance.
But stopping the Soviet soldiers was already impossible.
Connection of the South-Western Front of General R.Ya. Malinovsky carefully approached Zaporizhzhia . At the military council with the participation of the prominent Soviet commander A.M. Vasilevsky was decided to take Zaporizhzhia by night assault. Here in Zaporizhzhia, for the first time in history, such a large number of large tank forces were used.
The evening arrived on October 13, 1943. At 10 p.m., a 10-minute artillery bombardment began. And then ...
Additional lighting on all tanks. They included sirens, all kinds of noise devices. And - to attack!
A powerful blow stunned the Nazis, but they defended themselves with the fuse of the doomed.
Our tanks broke into the city and occupied the southern village. Ahead was the tank of Lieutenant N.L. Yatsenko. The crew of the combat vehicle picks up four enemy tanks, destroys several firing points, more than a hundred Nazi soldiers.
On the afternoon of October 14, Soviet troops liberated the city and reached the Dnieper. At 11.30 p.m. on October 14, Moscow saluted to the valiant warriors-liberators of Zaporizhzhia.
I think that we should not forget about heroes who gave their lives for our freedom. Numerous monuments now serve as a reminder of the bloody battles: a tank frozen on a pedestal, eternal flame on Freedom Square, Sorrowful mother on the right bank of the Dnieper. The fight against Nazi invaders in our territory is a part of World War II, which makes up the Great Victory.

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Hi, now I want to talk about the Zaporizhzhya operation in October 10-14, 1943.  In October 1943, the troops of the left wing of the southwestern front, consisting of three armies and two corps, went on the offensive on the fortified Zaporizhzhia Territory.  The shock front group was supported by the 17th Air Army under the command of General V. A. Sudets.  For 4 days there were stubborn battles.  Having overcome the fierce resistance of opponents, Soviet troops broke through the enemy’s defenses and broke into Zaporozhzhia at night of October 13.  In October 14, they completely liberated the left-bank part of the city.  The 31st headquarters and units were awarded the honorary title of Zaporozhzhia.  For the first time in World War II, a large group of troops stormed the city at night.  The rapid offensive of Soviet troops saved from the complete destruction of the Dnieper hydroelectric station.

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I want to tell about World War 2 veteran Viktor Varvashenya, partisan of the detachment of Sergei Maltsev, retired colonel.
In his life, Viktor Pavlovich - assistant professor, worked all his life as a surgeon in the 5th Zaporizhzhya hospital - operated on 3 567 patients. During the World War 2  he took part in hostilities in the occupied territory in Belarus. Together with other partisans, he laid mines on highway and railway bridges, blew up strategic interchanges, fuel tanks, trains with manpower and equipment - all this brought closer the day of victory.
We must remember and value those who defended us.

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My grandfather Vasily Fateyev
(July 22, 1925 - December - 1993), my dad's father. He was called to the ranks of the Soviet Army when he was 18 years old and immediately entered Czechoslovakia. He served in the anti-aircraft artillery. When my dad studied at school  67 (1970-1977), my grandfather came to school many times and talked about wartime.