The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has published unique historical documents on tank forces.
The basis of the section is the military documents of the autumn of 1944, when the Red Army troops approached the borders of Slovakia. The decisive role in breaking through the powerful defenses of the fascist German forces in the Carpathians was played by Soviet tank units and formations that were at the forefront of the strikes of the 1 and 4 of the Ukrainian fronts in September of the 1944 year during the Carpathian-Dukla operation.
The merits of our tankers in those bloody battles were marked by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 11 1946, which established the Day of Tankers. Celebrate it was prescribed annually on the second Sunday of September.
The multimedia section opens the Orders of the Minister of the Armed Forces of the USSR on 16 July 1946 No. 27 “On the Establishment of the Annual Celebration of the Day of the Tankers” and on 8 September 1946 No. 43 on holding the 4 Guards Tank Division in September XNUMX Tank Division on the march of the march of the XNUMX Guards Tank Division on the Red Square on the march of the march of the XNUMX Guards Tank Division on the Red Square on the march of the march of the XNUMX Guards Tank Division on the Red Square on the march of the 15th Guards Kantemirovsky Tank Division on the march of the march of the XNUMX Guards Tank Division on the Red Square on the march of the Kantemirovsky Tank Division on the red square of the march of the XNUMX Guards Division in the march on the Red Square of the Guards Kantemirovsky Tank Division in the march of the march of the XNUMX Guards Tank Division on September 15 .
The section presents declassified documents on specific combat episodes involving 13-th Guards Tarnopolsko-Shepetovskaya tank brigade in 1943-1945, from which you can learn about the heroic exploits of the tank.
Among the declassified documents are combat orders, orders and operational and reconnaissance reports of the 38 army headquarters and the 25 tank corps, indicating the great contribution of the 1-th Ukrainian front tank crews to the defeat of the German and Romanian fascist troops in September 1944 during the breakthrough of the defense of the fascists in the Carpathians in the Carpathians the border with Czechoslovakia at the initial stage of the Carpathian-Dukla operation.
From the declassified photo album, published by the test site of the Red Army at the GBTU in the 1945, users will learn about the types and characteristics of combat vehicles used by the Red Army tank forces in the first post-war months.
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