for example, maria botrakova, the future hero of the soviet union.battalion commander and led the fighters into the attack, while she herself was wounded. the entire melitopol operation, it was short-lived from september 20 , 1943, and it ended in november, november 5, 1943, and the city is ours. liberated in 10 days; the american press of that time in 1943 reported that the german command believed the battle for melitopol and the lands of the melitopol region with small stalingrad. the section of the eastern rampart on the approaches to the city covered an important railway line. it connected the main enemy forces with crimea. for the soviet troops, it was through melitopol that the path to the liberation of the crimean peninsula lay. true, our commanders, they wrote about this. in their memoirs, inspired by the victories on the mius front, they underestimated the thorough german defense. a very important thing is always the ratio of people against the two hundred thousand sixth army, reinforced, again, due to transportation from the toman peninsula