On Pulkovo Direction

On January 15, 1944, the troops of the Leningrad Front (Pulkovo direction) went on the offensive. The offensive began at 09:20 with a powerful artillery raid. All types of artillery took part in the raid. After artillery preparation at 11 o'clock in the morning, the infantry went on the offensive. During the fighting, a large number of prisoners were taken. On January 19, 1944, our troops captured the city and the Krasnoye Selo railway station. BOX 1. In the cockpit of the destroyer "Terrible", the ship's commander, 2nd-Class Captain Yuri Andrianovich Polsky, and the ship's artilleryman, Lieutenant-Commander BP Yakovenko, are directing fire at the telephones and maps. The movement of infantry, artillery and tank units along the roads to Krasnoe Selo and along the streets of the city. Destroyed buildings of houses and a railway station in Krasnoye Selo. On the roads, on the field, on the streets of Krasnoe Selo, there is a mass of broken German equipment, ammunition, destroyed trenches and reinforced concrete pillboxes. Soldiers are repairing a German self-propelled artillery gun. Large and small groups of German prisoners pass along the roads and streets of Krasnoe Selo. Among them is the Chief Corporal of the 3rd Artillery Battery of the 914th Artillery Division of the 170th Infantry Division Adolf Lippert, the sergeant of the 12th Artillery Battery of the 4th Artillery Division of the 240th Artillery Regiment of the 170th Infantry Division Otto Fetsch and the corporation of the 2nd reconnaissance battalion of the 240th artillery regiment Rudolf Lovin. Cemetery of the German military in Krasnoe Selo. (285.4 m) BOX 2. City of Leningrad. Enemy artillery fire from ships of the Baltic Fleet from guns of various calibers, from coastal artillery installations, from "Katyushas"; shooting from a gun of an armored train. Tank and infantry attack. Four planes fly over rural houses. The dilapidated building of the Trinity Church, the railway station in Krasnoe Selo. The officers inspect the section of the railway track, over which the pedestrian bridge has been destroyed. (293.7 m)

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