on september 21, 1943, advanced soviet divisions began crossing the river, british journalist alexander werthn as soviet troops reached the dnieper , thousands of soldiers began to cross to its other side in fishing boats, boats or improvised fruits with each other barrels. or even just in terms of clinging to boards or garden benches. soviet correspondent vasily grossman wrote in his diary that there were cases when soldiers transported regimental field guns on wooden gates and crossed the dnieper on canvas bags. uh, the western bank of the dnieper is higher than the eastern one and the width of the dnieper is three kilometers indifferent, that is, to overcome the water surface 3 km wide, with the dominant west bank. this is in general, well, a very serious thing, that is, fire from a high bank. it’s just that from machine guns, even without artillery or an artery, with a tip, so throw mortars at the river. in general, this is a very serious obstacle. on september 22, 1943, the soviet troops managed to capture the first bridgehead on the right bank of the dnieper in the area of ​​​​its confl

on september 21 , 1943, advanced soviet divisions began crossing the river, british journalist alexander werthsoon as soviet troops reached the dnieper, thousands of soldiers began to cross to its other side on fishing boats or improvised boards on barrels connected to each other. or even just in terms of clinging to boards or garden benches. soviet correspondent vasily grossman wrote in his diary that there were cases when soldiers transported regimental field guns on wooden gates and crossed the dnieper on canvas bags. the width of the dnieper on september 22, 1943, soviet troops managed to capture the first bridgehead on the right bank of the dnieper in the area of ​​​​its confluence with the pripyat. the soldiers who managed to get to the right bank were under heavy enemy fire and were forced to dig in to the ground by the beginning of october, in some divisions that crossed to the right bank of the dnieper, no more than a third of the personnel remained in the ranks. one of the soviet soldiers who served in the funeral team wrote, we collected the bodies of the dead and drowned and stored