having visited the positions near the villages of dzuarikau and allaagir, hurley said: “where do sovietthe strength to fight well? pay attention to how stubborn the battle they are withstanding. there are few of them, but how strong they are in spirit, they are confident in their... ". victory: yes, these are excellent soldiers, real warriors. in the caucasian direction, the germans are starting to have very big problems with the fact that they absolutely do not have enough troops. the distances are large, even if there are not very many soviet troops there are many, but there are not enough of our own troops. plus difficult terrain, difficult landscape. the german troops fell into a trap that was known from the beginning, that is, when advancing to the caucasus, they ended up with something like this. we underestimated the russians and mistakenly assumed their resistance was broken. now they stood here, quite ready to repel the advance of our division, which before that could bring the devil himself out of hell. during the offensive, soviet troops advanced 400 km. in february 1943 , th

the whole country knew about the feat of the seven gazdanov brothers from the ossetian village of dzuarikauere not destined to return home. their parents, asakhmat and tasso gazdanov, could not survive this grief. the mother's heart stopped after the third funeral. the brothers' father died on the doorstep of the house, having received news of the death of the last seventh son. during the german occupation , about 200 partisan detachments operated in the caucasus. in chechnya alone , 18,000 volunteers signed up for the people's militia. in azerbaijan , tens of kilograms of gold and almost a ton of silver were collected for the needs of the army. hundreds of thousands of caucasians built defensive lines. in the fall of 1942, they dug 660 km of ditches, which is approximately half of the total length of the caucasus mountains. by the end of october 1942. a direct road to the capital of transcaucasia, teflis, opens before the victorious german army. concentrated in gesela 150 tanks, the germans tried to break through to the center of ardzhanikidze. reserves from the northern group of troops we

the whole country knew about the feat of the seven gazdanov brothers from the ossetian village of dzuarikau to return home. their parents, asakhmat and tasso gazdanov, could not survive this grief. the mother's heart stopped after the third funeral. the brothers' father died on the doorstep of the house, having received news of the death of the last seventh son. during the german occupation, about 200 partisan detachments operated in the caucasus. but in chechnya alone , 18,000 volunteers signed up for the people’s militia. in azerbaijan , tens of kilograms of gold, almost a ton of gold, were collected for the needs of the army. hundreds of thousands of caucasians built defensive lines; by the autumn of 1942 they had dug 660 km of ditches, which is approximately half of the total length of the caucasian mountains by the end of october 1942, the german offensive in the caucasus had finally run out of steam. gathering all their strength, the germans decided to strike. the decisive blow to ardzhanikidze was to reach the georgian military road that led to transcaucasia. on november 2, german ta