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Image: After the presentation of the orders, the army commander made a speech. “We are in a responsible sector of the front,” he said. - Our land, though small, fetters the great forces of the Germans. I am faithful that you will do whatever it takes to win
Image: Ostapenko, Zhukovsky, Petryaev, Samarkhanov, Vorobyov, Chechin, Yakkov, Alekseenko, Rakhimov, Naydenov, Rezanov, Grigorenko, Bolbas, Safaryan - all of them received the Order of the Red Banner that day. Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees were received by Goroshin, Klimenko, Orekhov, Koval, Sinyavsky and Mitin
Image: July 6, 1943. "Small Land". Commander of the 18th Airborne Army, Lieutenant General Leselidze presents orders to the people of our units
Image: Order to the 591st Red Banner Rifle Regiment of the 176th Red Banner Rifle Division of the North Caucasian Front
Image: Commander of the 20th Airborne Corps, Major General Dmitry Vasilyevich Gordeev, who led operations on Small land
Image: "Small land"
Image: Battery commissar of the 188th Separate Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion Titar talks to soldiers after a combat operation
Image: Near Shapsugskaya. Deputy Political Department Major Karpeshin conducts a conversation in the 3rd battalion of the 109th regiment before carrying out a combat mission
Image: Foreman  Mikhail Sakhanev (591st Regiment). He distinguished himself in the battles near Shapsugskaya
Image: On the Kabardian Pass near Shapsugskaya
Image: Near Shapsugskaya. Scouts of a separate reconnaissance company (a platoon of junior lieutenant Evseenko) at a halt by the fire
Image: After the presentation of the orders, the army commander made a speech. “We are in a responsible sector of the front,” he said. - Our land, though small, fetters the great forces of the Germans. I am faithful that you will do whatever it takes to win
Image: Ostapenko, Zhukovsky, Petryaev, Samarkhanov, Vorobyov, Chechin, Yakkov, Alekseenko, Rakhimov, Naydenov, Rezanov, Grigorenko, Bolbas, Safaryan - all of them received the Order of the Red Banner that day. Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees were received by Goroshin, Klimenko, Orekhov, Koval, Sinyavsky and Mitin
Image: July 6, 1943. "Small Land". Commander of the 18th Airborne Army, Lieutenant General Leselidze presents orders to the people of our units
Image: Order to the 591st Red Banner Rifle Regiment of the 176th Red Banner Rifle Division of the North Caucasian Front
Image: Commander of the 20th Airborne Corps, Major General Dmitry Vasilyevich Gordeev, who led operations on Small land
Image: "Small land"
Image: Battery commissar of the 188th Separate Anti-Tank Destroyer Battalion Titar talks to soldiers after a combat operation
Image: Near Shapsugskaya. Deputy Political Department Major Karpeshin conducts a conversation in the 3rd battalion of the 109th regiment before carrying out a combat mission
Image: Foreman  Mikhail Sakhanev (591st Regiment). He distinguished himself in the battles near Shapsugskaya
Image: On the Kabardian Pass near Shapsugskaya
Image: Near Shapsugskaya. Scouts of a separate reconnaissance company (a platoon of junior lieutenant Evseenko) at a halt by the fire
Image: "Small land"

Image: "Small land"

Image: "Small land"

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