this is the highest point of the krevtsovsky heights on the left bank of the aka river.a small section of the front, fighting continued continuously for almost 2 years. fights in were mainly of a positional nature; three front-line, strategic offensive operations were carried out here. the goal of these operations was only one: to take the city of orel. more than forty soviet divisions took part in the battles on the krevtsovsky heights. the life of the division in these battles was measured literally in days; the division lost personnel in offensive, especially winter operations, on average in 3-5 days. not far from the krevtsovsky heights, close to the front line, there was the village of spasskoye lutovinova and the estate of the writer ivan turgenev. the soldiers who liberated these lands from the nazis are buried in a large mass grave, in the manor park of the restored house. the small museum of the search association fiery arc stores documents of fighters and fragments of equipment. found personal belongings help to restore the dead. by the summer of 1943, the sovi