of Army of the LENINGRAD front, continuing a razvivatnastupleniye, on the night of January 26 storm our armies seized the city and zheleznodorozhnymuzly Gatchina (KRASNOGVARDEYSK).<"7>"
Within January 26 to the west of, South to the west and to the south Gatchina, continuing to develop approach, seized KLYaSINO,ShUNDOROVO, KASKOVO, KANDOKYuLYa settlements. MURATOVO, MEDNIKOVO, LUYSKO-VITsY, VALERIYaNOVKA, SMALL and BIG BORNITSY, ILNINO, PARITsY, MALOE KOLPANO, PROLETARSKAYA SLOBODA, BOLSHAYA ZAGVOZDKA, PIZHMA, Pustoshka and VOYSKOVITsY railway station.
To the west and North to the west of TOCHO our armies, having broken a soprotivleniyeprotivnik, with fights occupied some settlements and among them the SABLINO, NOVO-LISINO, SUSANINO krupnyenaselenny points, and also the uzlovuyuzheleznodorozhny NEW LISINO station and the GALAShEVKA,STEKOLNYY, SEMRINO, SUSANINO railway stations.
during approach from January 14 to January 25, 1944 armies Leningrad frontananesli to fascist armies the following losses:
during offensive combats of army of the front 10 infantry divisions inanesli broke heavy losses to 2 infantry divisions.
byAre taken, according to incomplete data, the following trophies: tools of different calibers — 619, including heavy tools of calibers from 150 mm to 406 mm — 116, minometovrazny — 454, self-propelled tools — 20, machine guns — 1.360, rifles and machine guns — 7.286, tanks — 60, armored cars — 24, shells — 173.000, mines — 85.000, rifle cartridges — to 9 million pieces, cars — 350, vehicles with razlichnymgruzy — 413, horses — 300, warehouses artillery, engineering, ware iprodovolstvenny — 65.<"12>"
the Accounting of the taken trophies in Gatchina is not finished yet.
byIt is destroyed: tanks — 158, tools of different caliber — 200, machine guns — 497, mortars — 245, cars — 901, warehouses with ammunition, arms an iprodovolstviye — 30, railway echelons — 5, engines — 5, cars — 300, vehicles with freights — 200.<"14>"
the Opponent lost only the killed over 40 thousand soldiers and officers.
captured about 3 thousand soldiers and officers.
To the north and North to the west gorod Lyuban our armies with fights moved ahead, occupied settlements of RAMTsY, BUDKOVO, VERIGOVShchINA, the NOVELTY, PELGORA, UShAKI,ZhARY and railway stations of RYaBOVO and GEORGIEVSKAYA.
North to the west, to the west and South to the west Veliky Novgorod our armies, a prodolzhayanastupleniye, seized LIBUNITsY, KROMY, NEHINO, BODRINO, STAROE VERETE, GORNOE VERETE, MALINOVKA, BELETs, GOLINO, OSPINO settlements izheleznodorozhny station LYUBOLYADY.<"18>"
To the east of VINNYTSIA and to the north of Khrystynivka our armies continued uspeshnootbivat attacks of large forces of infantry and tanks of the opponent and put to it bolshiyepoteri in manpower and equipment.
On other sectors of the front in a number of points there were fights of local value.
Within January 25 our armies on all fronts linedand destroyed 144nemetskikh the tank. In air fights and fire of an antiaircraft artillery 49 samoletovprotivnik are brought down.
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of Army of the Leningrad front on the night of January 26 storm seized gorodomgatchina (Krasnogvardeysk). Germans turned the city into fortress and sosredotochilizdes a huge number of fire weapons. Working with assault groups, the Soviet fighters beat out the opponent from ferroconcrete strengthenings and cleared otgitlerovets one street for another. At this time parts of other ours soyedineniyasovershili roundabout maneuver also attacked Germans from the West. The enemy armies defending the city, were crushed. Only separate groups of the German soldiers, having thrown arms, escaped. Having seized a large railway junction igorody Gatchina, our armies took big trophies. In fights on approaches kgorodu and on its streets some thousands of German soldiers of iofitser are destroyed.
To the west, South to the west and to the south Gatchina our armies continued approach and, successfully moving ahead, occupied a number of settlements. Fighters N-skoy parts, having promptly rushed into one settlement, took 40 German avtomashins the weapon and ammunition. In other area it is taken prisoner considerable chislonemetsky soldiers and officers.
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To the west and North to the west of Tosno our armies with fights moved ahead. Parts N-skogo of connection borrowed with prompt attack railway uzelnovo-Lisino, and also some other settlements. Soviet artilleristyunichtozhili 12 German tanks, 22 tools, to 100 cars also blew up two skladaboyepripasov. Pursuing the opponent, divisions N-skoy speak rapidly a razgromilinemetsky autoanimal-drawn column. 9 staff buses, 26 legkovykhavtomashin are seized and it is a lot of vehicles with freights. About 400 Hitlerites, sledovavshikhza are destroyed by vehicles.
the Soviet pilots made a raid on enemy airfield and destroyed on zemle13 the German planes.
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To the north and North to the west gorod Lyuban our armies, overcoming an upornoyesoprotivleniye of Germans, seized Ryabovo and Georgiyevskayan's railway stations of the highway Leningrad-Moscow. In fight for these stations it is destroyed to batalyonagitlerovets. It is taken at Germans of 8 tools, 59 machine guns and a large warehouse with a voyennymimushchestvo. The group of skiers-submachine gunners under command of the senior serzhantabelogubova got into the back of the opponent and crushed a staff of the German part.
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To the west Veliky Novgorod our armies broke resistance of large forces of the opponent iovladeli Lyubolyada's railway station. In fight for Lyubolyady it is destroyed do1.500 the German soldiers and officers. Big trophies and captured are taken. In the drugomrayena the Soviet tankmen, quickly moving ahead, in large naselennompunkte crushed a staff of the German division. Tens cars, to 200loshadey and vehicles and other trophies are taken. One of taken prisoner German ofitserovzayavil that their division is completely crushed, and small groups of the remained lousy soldiers ran up on the woods.
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East Vinnytsia and to the north of Khrystynivka our armies continued to conduct battles by skrupny forces of tanks and infantry of the opponent. In the morning Germans from two napravleniyatakovali the Soviet positions. The opponent counted simultaneous udaramiprorvat defense and to surround our parts operating on this site. Heavy fighting lasted throughout the day. All attacks of Germans were uspeshnootbity our armies. Especially heavy losses were put to the opponent by sovetskiyeartillerist and mortars. On approaches to our positions it is burned and podbitosvyshe 100 German tanks and self-propelled tools, 35 armored troop-carriers and 11bronemashin.
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the Guerrilla group operating in one of regions of the Rovno area, mined a big site of highway roads. At night a motorcade protivnikanaskochila on a minefield. Some German cars exploded. Nakhodivshiyesyav to an ambush guerrillas machine-gun fire interrupted over 50 Hitlerites. It is taken in plen8 the German soldiers and trophies are taken.
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On the Leningrad front the corporal of the 399th regiment 170nemetskoy divisions Gustav M. Perebezhchik came over to our to side declared: "The first two days of a russkogonastupleniye were the most awful in my life. On my eyes were lost sotninemetsky soldiers. When the shelling ended, soldiers 12, 13 and 14rot abandoned the weapon and ran up, despite hails and threats of officers. Yanikogda did not think that for such short term quite efficient voinskiyepodrazdeleniye can turn into mad people. In November diviziyaprazdnovala fourth anniversary of the existence. To us announced the order in which the review of a fighting way of a division and its losses was given. During fighting deystviyv Russian Federation it lost 650 officers and 24.450 soldiers and corporals. These dannyemenya stunned. Thus, as I learned later, these figures are takzhepreumenshenny. It is actually even more loss. Due to the vseobshcheyrasteryannost and a panic at retreat I lagged behind the and was given vplen".