On this day in history on October 29, 1944, Soviet forces completed the Patsamo-Kirkins offensive operation. It became the tenth largest strategic offensive operation of 1944 - Stalin's tenth blow. As a result of ten Stalinist attacks, the Red Army inflicted a strategic defeat on the Wehrmacht: 136 enemy divisions were defeated, 70 of which were surrounded and destroyed. The enemy's losses exceeded 2 million people!!! In 1944, the entire territory of the Soviet Union was liberated from the Nazi invaders. On October 29, 1944, an order was issued by the People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin No. 0349 "On disbanding individual volley units". Detachments appeared in the Red Army in the summer of 1941. Due to the change in the situation on the front by the fall of 1944, the need for them disappeared, and the People's Defense Commissioner ordered the disbandment of the checkpoint units by November 15, 1944, and their men were sent to renew the rifle divisions. On October 29, 1929, Marat Kazei was born - a partisan, a Soviet pioneer hero. He died in battle with the Nazis in 1943 at the age of 14, and after his death he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. On October 29, 1706, Russian forces defeated the Polish-Swedish army in the battle of Kalisz. The enemy's losses amounted to more than 5,000 dead and wounded, more than 3.4 thousand people were captured. The losses of the Russian soldiers amounted to 84 dead and 324 wounded. It was the biggest victory of the Russian soldiers in the first 6 years of the Northern War of 1700-1721. Museum at MAX.

On this day in history on October 29, 1944, Soviet forces completed the Patsamo-Kirkins offensive operation. It became the tenth largest strategic offensive operation of 1944 - Stalin's tenth blow. As a result of ten Stalinist attacks, the Red Army inflicted a strategic defeat on the Wehrmacht: 136 enemy divisions were defeated, 70 of which were surrounded and destroyed. The enemy's losses exceeded 2 million people!!! In 1944, the entire territory of the Soviet Union was liberated from the Nazi invaders. On October 29, 1944, an order was issued by the People's Commissar of Defense of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin No. 0349 "On disbanding individual volley units". Detachments appeared in the Red Army in the summer of 1941. Due to the change in the situation on the front by the fall of 1944, the need for them disappeared, and the People's Defense Commissioner ordered the disbandment of the checkpoint units by November 15, 1944, and their men were sent to renew the rifle divisions. On October 29, 1929, Marat Kazei was born - a partisan, a Soviet pioneer hero. He died in battle with the Nazis in 1943 at the age of 14, and after his death he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. On October 29, 1706, Russian forces defeated the Polish-Swedish army in the battle of Kalisz. The enemy's losses amounted to more than 5,000 dead and wounded, more than 3.4 thousand people were captured. The losses of the Russian soldiers amounted to 84 dead and 324 wounded. It was the biggest victory of the Russian soldiers in the first 6 years of the Northern War of 1700-1721. Museum at MAX.