the village of povenets was washed away by water.s intended to hold the bearish gorsk at all costs. every meter of the city fired from the heights. in 1944, the red army liberated the city with heavy fighting. by august 9, during the svir-petrozavodsk operation , red army troops approached the former soviet-finnish border and stopped the offensive. the war with finland was over. capital. republic, the city of petrozavodsk was liberated earlier, on june 28 , 1944. in 2015, petrozavodsk was awarded the honorary title of city of military glory. thought. from the first millennium ad to the middle of the 20th century in the territory of the present volgograd region on the volga-don the isthmus was an ancient trade and military route. in the middle ages , settlements of the turkic and khazar khanates and the golden horde existed on these lands. after joining. tatar astrakhan kingdom to russia, these lands began to be settled by the cossacks. for the cossacks who inhabited the volga and don steppes, military service was the main business of