melitopol is located on the right bank of the molochnaya river, the bank is up to 80 m high.ldiers found themselves under heavy fire from german guns, this moment was captured in the museum diorama: in the area of the village of mordvinovka, in a swampy area, showing incredible heroism, the soldiers of the twenty-eighth army not only broke through the defenses, but also managed to gain a foothold on the conquered lines. the shells were delivered by ours on carts, there were not enough vehicles to deliver many shells, they accumulated, time was running out, and germans, here you are... the city streets were turned by the germans into impregnable fortresses, all approaches to the positions were mined and shrouded in barbed wire, the fighting here was very difficult, only after breaking through melitopol were the soviet troops able to use their main trump card, the nineteenth tank corps, which has already led to the collapse of the entire german front. our city was liberated by 102,000 red army soldiers consisting of 69, 69 military units and subunits; as a result of the mel