South of Voronezh

Voronezh Front, January 14-18, 1943 Troops of the Southern Group of Forces of the Voronezh Front, which included the 3rd Panzer Army under the command of P.S. Rybalko, breaking through the enemy's defenses in the Kantemirovka area, rushed to Rossosh, which was given special importance. The city was adjoined by a railway station, through which the supply of the Italian Alpine corps and the 24th German tank corps went. The loss of Rossosh, for the enemy, meant the collapse of the right flank of a group of German, Hungarian and Italian troops. The offensive of the tank army of P.S. Rybalko began on January 14, 1943. Tanks of the 106th Tank Brigade under the command of Colonel I.K. Alekseev were the first to break into Rossosh. The commander of the 3rd Tank Army, Major General Pavel Semyonovich Rybalko, before the start of the offensive operation (cr.ppan). General view of the military group. Sign on the building of the former prison with the NDP in Italian "CARCERIDELLA POLIZIA LOKALE". A group of women on the territory of the prison, where the bodies of the executed Red Army soldiers and civilians lie. General view of the corpses. Citizen Belinova is crying by the body of her shot husband. Soviet soldiers inspect the corpses of the Nazis, search them, take out documents and photographs belonging to the killed. A group of Italian prisoners on Rossosh street. Soviet submachine gunners escort a column of prisoners who walk past the corpses lying on the ground in the snow. General view of the city of Rossosh. Subdivisions of the Soviet troops are passing by.

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T. Bunimovich, S. Uralov