defense of luzhsky at the border, the battles for the old rus demyansky landing pulled the enemy forces over and not far from capturing leningrad, but claimed thousands of lives due to the fact that the germans were superior in strength. e parts of the retreating northwestern front, then there, in general, on average 2-3 days , the defense of one or another settlement took place, and then the red army rolled back one of the important strategic points turned out to be staraya russa , a railway line passed through the city with a centuries-old history, which connected the baltic states with leningrad. and moscow that allowed the wehrmacht to transfer new forces to the clinic and the front and bring up weapons, fights for the old hand - this is an opportunity to cut the next railway of 1941. and by the end of the city months , the forces of the sixteenth field army of the wehrmacht were practically thrown into the capture. the nazis broke into the city center on august 9, however, after 3 days , soviet troops launched a counteroffensive. fierce battles went on for every quarter, every hous