soviet paratroopers landed on the western coast of tsimes bay.ture a small piece of land with an area of 28 km. the marines nicknamed it little land. they held this bridgehead for 225 days. kleist managed to withdraw army group a from the caucasus, this was generally even appreciated by hitler. hitler, in principle, never did not encourage anyone to withdraw troops. admit it, but he withdrew his first tank army, and other troops as well. and so kleist received the title of felix marshal in february 1943. that is, the man received the title of general fred marshall, in fact, because he was able to lead the group out. this group a , which actually carried out the attack on the caucasus, was, of course, very battered, but not defeated , it was not possible to completely defeat this combat-ready german fist, but nevertheless we can take this into account to say that a very long, difficult, very bloody battle for the caucasus ended in our victory, because we liberated all the occupied territories, we did not let them, most importantly, seize the oil