, even though godyryan walked quickly, they had already gone these 20 km for 5 days to mtsensk, that, learned to outplay a pedantic, predictable opponent. here, for the first time , t-34 tanks showed their superiority in battle. the memorial to the tank guards and the monument to the soviet soldier perpetuate the heroism of the defenders. where the bronze soldier is buried 40 soldiers of the red army and two pilots who liberated the oryol region. their remains were found by searchers during the regional memory watch campaign. it is not known for certain how many lives the war in the oryol region claimed; researchers say that the final number is unlikely to be established. is on on oryol land, a place that was called the “valley of death” is the highest point of the krevtsovsky heights on the left bank of the aka river. on a small section of the front, fighting continued continuously for almost 2 years. the fighting was mainly of a positional nature; three front-line strategic offensive operations were carried out here. task there was only one of these operations: to take the city of