moment from the biography smirnov which happened in the first days of august near the village of alessovost days of august of the forty- third year, he directly collided with german tanks, a tiger and a panther. according to the documents, the mortars developed such a massive fire during the german offensive that they were able to cut off the infantry from tanks yes, and keep in the village, that is, the germans were able to surround the village, but could not take it as a result, the germans lost more than 20 tanks that day. the order of the red star is an award for courage shown in battles for he received the order of glory of the second degree from the liberation of kiev that same summer, but already near leo, from the award list, he personally captured 17 fascists. the german garrison went on a breakthrough from the lvov pocket, the enemy column collided with ours head- on. and uh, there's one. in general, quite a hodgepodge arose, because such an oncoming battle of mortars began. they didn't have time to deploy. that is, as if unexpectedly, these two columns bumped into each other. a