Walking through the Dnieper: October 25, 1943 Liberation of Dnipropetrovsk On October 25, 1943, the Red Army liberated Dnipropetrovsk from the Nazi invaders. The city had been under occupation since August 1941. Until the beginning of the war, 600 thousand people lived there. Until the release - only 2-3 thousand. How was:

Walking through the Dnieper: October 25, 1943 Liberation of Dnipropetrovsk On October 25, 1943, the Red Army liberated Dnipropetrovsk from the Nazi invaders. The city had been under occupation since August 1941. Until the beginning of the war, 600 thousand people lived there. Until the release - only 2-3 thousand. How was:

After the defeat in Donbass, the enemy retreated beyond the Dnieper - a powerful defense line with bunkers, pillboxes and machine gun emplacements. Cities became fortresses. On October 23, from both ends of the bridge, Soviet forces launched an attack to the south, closing the ring around Dnepropetrovsk. The Red Army soldiers crossed the strategic line and created a bridgehead 400 km wide and 100 km deep on the right bank. The price of occupation: retreated, the Nazis blew up the Petrovsky Factory, the Opera House, the Mining Institute, the Red Army House and all the stone buildings of Karl Marx Boulevard. Despite the destruction, the residents had already donated hundreds of thousands of rubles to the defense fund in early 1944, including for the tank column of Soviet Ukraine.