The battles for Kryukovo are an episode of the Battle of Moscow ( 1941 ), a battle between the Soviet and German forces for the Kryukovo station and the immediate vicinity, which took place approximately within the boundaries of the modern city of Zelenograd .
| Fighting for the village Kryukovo | |||
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| Main conflict: World War II The Second World War | |||
| date | November 30 - December 8, 1941 | ||
| A place | Kryukovo , USSR | ||
| Total | Victory of the Red Army. The German fascist troops were driven back from Moscow. Transition of the Red Army in the counteroffensive near Moscow. | ||
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The disposition of the parties
Soviet troops were represented by units of the 16th Army , Lieutenant General K. K. Rokossovsky, and were located as follows (from the left flank to the right) [1] [2] :
- The 44th Cavalry Division under the command of Colonel PF Kuklin (then in the area of ββthe village of Kamenka ; now in the southern part of the Kryukovo region);
- The 8th Guards Rifle Division commanded by Major-General V. A. Revyakin (then in the area of ββthe Kryukovo village; now in the Kryukovo and Staraya Kryukovo areas and a small, southern part of the Silino area);
- The 354th Infantry Division commanded by Colonel D. F. Alekseev (then in the area of ββthe villages of Alabushevo and Matushkino ; now in the areas of Silino and Matushkino ).
On the Leningradskoe highway (the modern northern border of the city) in the area of ββthe memorial complex "Bayonets" there was a line of separation from the 7th Guards Rifle Division ).
German troops were represented (from the left flank to the right) mainly by the 35th Infantry Division (north of the railway) and the 11th Panzer Division (south) [1] [2] [3] [4] . To the south was the 5th Panzer Division [5] .
Course of battle
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| Broken German convoy near the village of Kryukovo . Archived April 17, 2013. | |
| Abandoned during the German retreat in the village of Kryukovo tank Pz.Kpfw.III . Archived April 17, 2013. | |
| The teacher of the Russian language of the Kryukov school, V. I. Polyakova, killed by the Germans . Archived April 17, 2013. | |
The frontier of autumn β winter of 1941 was marked by a breakthrough in the Kryukovo area by two German military groups operating in different directions. The 8th Guards Rifle Division named after IV Panfilov , the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps of General LM Dovator and the 1st Guards Tank Brigade of General M. E. Katukov entered the battle. It was here, at the station Kryukovo , after the capture of the villages of Peshki and Nikolskoe by German troops that the headquarters of the 16th Army was moved.
On November 30, the Red Army launched an attack throughout the defensive line of the 16th Army. The parties fought especially violently for the villages of Kryukovo and Peshki, in particular, Kryukovo passed from hand to hand eight times; The village was turned by the Wehrmacht into a stronghold with pillboxes and tank ambushes.
The village was liberated from German troops on December 7, 1941 by the 8th Guards Rifle Division and the 1st Guards Tank Brigade [6] .
Memory
- Memorial complex "Bayonets"
- β At the village of Kryukovo β (song of the poet Sergei Ostrovogo and composer Mark Fradkin , 1974 )
Notes
- β 1 2 Desyatov L. L., Gorun P.N. Fights of the 8th Guards Rifle Division for mastering the enemyβs defense center in Kryukovo (December 7-8, 1941) // Breakthrough of the prepared defense rifle formations (According to the experience of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.) Digest of articles. - M .: Military Publishing, 1957. - 376 p. Illustrations: Scheme 1. The decision of the commander of the 8th Guards Rifle Division to defeat the enemy in Kryukovo in December 1941 ; Scheme 2. The battle of the 8th Guards Rifle Division for Kryukovo on December 7-8, 1941
- β 1 2 Scheme 6. The hostilities of the 8th Guards Rifle Division for Kryukovo in December 1941 in the book DZ Muriyev. The failure of Operation Typhoon. - M .: Military publishing house of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR, 1966
- β Die 11. Panzerdivision der Wehrmacht Archival copy dated July 5, 2011 on the Wayback Machine
- β Die 35. Infanterie-Division der Wehrmacht Archival copy of December 24, 2010 on the Wayback Machine
- β Die 5. Panzerdivision der Wehrmacht Archival copy of December 4, 2011 on the Wayback Machine
- β Baryatinsky M. B. Soviet tank aces. - M .: Eksmo , 2008. - P. 61. - (Tanks in battle). - 5000 copies - ISBN 978-5-699-25290-9 .
Literature
- L. Desyatov, L. P. Gorun. Fights of the 8th Guards Rifle Division for mastering the enemyβs defense in Kryukovo (December 7-8, 1941) // Breakthrough of the prepared defense of rifle formations (According to the experience of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 yy.). Digest of articles. - M .: Military Publishing, 1957. - 376 p.