🌟 On January 12, 1943, the Red Army forces launched an offensive that was later codenamed Iskra (Spark).
The goal of the operation was to break the siege of Russia’s city of Leningrad.
⚔️ At 9.30 am on January 12, two thousand Soviet weapons opened fired on Nazi positions. Soviet artillery of the Leningrad Front shelled the left bank of the Neva River for two hours and twenty minutes. After the barrage, soldiers of four first-echelon divisions launched an attack across the frozen river. Light tanks and armoured vehicles supported the infantry.
By late January, the troops of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts dissected the Wehrmacht’s defences with powerful strikes from both sides and pushed the enemy 12 kilometres back from Lake Ladoga.
❗️The Germans lost about 30,000 killed, wounded and missing.
☝️ Although the siege of Leningrad was completely lifted only on January 27, 1944, Operation Iskra made it possible to partially unblock the city, considerably improving conditions of living for the besieged people.
🌟 Before that, the famous Road of Life across the ice of Lake Ladoga was the city’s only connection to the mainland.
#WWII #Victory78 #WeRemember #SiegeOfLeningrad
The goal of the operation was to break the siege of Russia’s city of Leningrad.
⚔️ At 9.30 am on January 12, two thousand Soviet weapons opened fired on Nazi positions. Soviet artillery of the Leningrad Front shelled the left bank of the Neva River for two hours and twenty minutes. After the barrage, soldiers of four first-echelon divisions launched an attack across the frozen river. Light tanks and armoured vehicles supported the infantry.
By late January, the troops of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts dissected the Wehrmacht’s defences with powerful strikes from both sides and pushed the enemy 12 kilometres back from Lake Ladoga.
❗️The Germans lost about 30,000 killed, wounded and missing.
☝️ Although the siege of Leningrad was completely lifted only on January 27, 1944, Operation Iskra made it possible to partially unblock the city, considerably improving conditions of living for the besieged people.
🌟 Before that, the famous Road of Life across the ice of Lake Ladoga was the city’s only connection to the mainland.
#WWII #Victory78 #WeRemember #SiegeOfLeningrad
📆 124 years ago, on 12 February 1900, Vasily Chuikov was born, a prominent Soviet military commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
He participated in the Russian Civil War and the Winter War with Finland. In 1940-1942 he served as a military attache and the chief military adviser to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.
🌟 Vasily Chuikov is best remembered to have commanded the 62nd Army involved in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. V.Chuikov adopted the “hugging” tactic – keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible, in order to escape the unimpeded bombing by Nazi aviation.
⚔️ Another V.Chuikov’s tactical option was using of small assault units which repeatedly counterattacked the Nazis not allowing them to consolidate their positions in the city’s ruined blocks.
💬 When given the command of the defense of Stalingrad, V.Chuikov reportedly said: “I swear that I won’t leave the city. We shall hold Stalingrad or die there.”
#Victory78 #WWII
He participated in the Russian Civil War and the Winter War with Finland. In 1940-1942 he served as a military attache and the chief military adviser to Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek.
🌟 Vasily Chuikov is best remembered to have commanded the 62nd Army involved in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. V.Chuikov adopted the “hugging” tactic – keeping the Soviet front-line positions as close to the Germans as physically possible, in order to escape the unimpeded bombing by Nazi aviation.
⚔️ Another V.Chuikov’s tactical option was using of small assault units which repeatedly counterattacked the Nazis not allowing them to consolidate their positions in the city’s ruined blocks.
💬 When given the command of the defense of Stalingrad, V.Chuikov reportedly said: “I swear that I won’t leave the city. We shall hold Stalingrad or die there.”
#Victory78 #WWII