among them, two heroes of the soviet union, special forces commanders boris galushkin and fyodor azmitelthrough the ring of the nazi blockade, from which more than 10,000 people were saved. after the battles, local residents tried to collect the bodies of the dead in order to bury them, but the brutalized nazis, who stayed here after breaking the blockade, used tanks to iron the makovskoe field, crushed the bodies of the dead with caterpillars, pressed them into the ground, so they only managed to collect. before our units attacked orsha, the commander of the third belarusian front, ivan chernyakhovsky, had complete information about the situation in the city and its environs from a special message from the group. over the past few days , air defense work has been intensified in the city of orsha, training is being conducted, and people are walking around with gas masks. around the city at all heights, excavation work was carried out to install artillery, machine guns and mortars. along the highways, bridges and bridges are built along the highways. similar work was carried out before th