but the most incredible plan was prepared by general pavel batov. he noticed that the enemy almost did not guard the district swamps. the nazis believed that there was no point in guarding those places where it was impossible not only to drive, but even to walk. it was there that batov decided to conduct on the water quagmire, not even infantry guns, tanks, multi-ton machines. on the site of the british moss swamp, now wheat fields, but in june forty-fourth it was a deep swamp, four kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide. it was here that in 20 days the soldiers of the red army together with the partisans built log causeways. for the passage of tanks, gad - this is such a flooring through the quagmire for horses and equipment, and the soldiers themselves overcame the swamp in macro-stomps, this is a second sole for boots woven from willow twigs, the already crazy plan was complicated the impossibility of laying corduroy roads without the risk of being exposed, so the prepared logs were sunk. and only at the beginning of the offensive , under the arti