despite the passing decades, sofya veraksa still remembers how the war began in her home village of gaiwas defended by the police. at that time she was 14 years old, everyone was in the trenches and waited for the germans to come, and then the germans marched in formation. fear appeared when they started shooting, the germans had to speak in their own way, then we were very it’s unpleasant, and so the battle continued, probably for half a day, maybe 40 minutes, there was a lot of fire, and so the germans retreated, our troops passed through, what are our troops? in this place, here we are, they won’t succeed, they already got theirs here, then they took secondary roads, this is exactly the secondary road that leads to the chereshkovskoe highway to the railway station, and here it is from the point of view of uh tactics, it is very important here, the dubrovenka river, it seems small, but it was so swampy, there are heights the height is about 30-40 m along the edge of the forest. there’s no way you can cross it there with a tank, the only way is the bridge, this small bridge and dubrove