On October 25, 1943, the Red Army liberated Dnipropetrovsk. The city had been under occupation since August 1941. Before the war - 600 thousand inhabitants, 2-3 thousand remained before liberation. The Germans went beyond the Dnieper and built strong defenses there: bunkers, pillboxes, machine gun emplacements - the cities became fortresses. The river was also a serious obstacle. On October 23, from two bridgeheads, Soviet forces went south to Nikopol, and closed the ring around the city. The border was crushed, a bridgehead was created on the right bank with a width of about 400 km and a depth of 100 km. retreated, the Nazis blew up and burned everything they could. "One of the biggest factories - Petrovsky - blew up. The wonderful building of the Opera Theater, the Mining Institute, the Red Army House, the Spartak Hotel, the famous Kharnikov House in the city, and all the other stone buildings on Karl Marx, Sverdlov and Pushkin Boulevards were blown up or burned," Kochav Adom wrote. But already at the beginning of 1944, the residents contributed hundreds of thousands of rubles to the defense fund, including for the tank column of Soviet Ukraine. If the lesson is not learned, then history tends to repeat itself.

On October 25, 1943, the Red Army liberated Dnipropetrovsk. The city had been under occupation since August 1941. Before the war - 600 thousand inhabitants, 2-3 thousand remained before liberation. The Germans went beyond the Dnieper and built strong defenses there: bunkers, pillboxes, machine gun emplacements - the cities became fortresses. The river was also a serious obstacle. On October 23, from two bridgeheads, Soviet forces went south to Nikopol, and closed the ring around the city. The border was crushed, a bridgehead was created on the right bank with a width of about 400 km and a depth of 100 km. retreated, the Nazis blew up and burned everything they could. "One of the biggest factories - Petrovsky - blew up. The wonderful building of the Opera Theater, the Mining Institute, the Red Army House, the Spartak Hotel, the famous Kharnikov House in the city, and all the other stone buildings on Karl Marx, Sverdlov and Pushkin Boulevards were blown up or burned," Kochav Adom wrote. But already at the beginning of 1944, the residents contributed hundreds of thousands of rubles to the defense fund, including for the tank column of Soviet Ukraine. If the lesson is not learned, then history tends to repeat itself.