To Kursk Region opened a monument to Heroes and commanders of connections of the 70th army

The monument was opened in honor of the 80 anniversary of Kursk fight on the Memorial complex "Bow Height — 269" at the village Molotychi by Fatezh district. The monument is devoted to Heroes and commanders of connections of the 70th army who stopped the enemy in July, 1943 at Teplovsky, Molotychevsky and Olkhovatsky heights, from where then and counterattack of the Soviet armies that became a turning point in Kursk fight began. It is important to note that the Resolution of the State Committee of Defense against October 14, 1942 the National commissariat of internal affairs of the USSR was entrusted to create separate army from the military personnel boundary...