nikolai borisenka, historian, local historian, member of the writers' union, head of the vikru historicalb, who annually participates in excavations of places of military glory, literally digging up historical facts. archeology, it is a very exact science, this is what we see now in the folds of the terrain, we can assume that... at this height , a unit of both policemen and soldiers of the red army occupied the defense. there are trenches along all the slopes of this height, many of them... historical decisions, not to surrender the city until the last, to create a powerful line of defense along the dnieper, because there is no such water line before moscow, soviet troops are being pulled up here, a second echelon of defense is being formed, mogilev begins to dig in and prepare for fierce battles. on june 28, 1941 , preparations began for defensive fortifications around the city of mogilevo, literally in 6-7 days , two lines of fortifications were prepared and one of the lines was an anti-tank ditch, which had a length of about 25 km and... massive defensive fortifications, extensive min