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Satellite map of Polotsk - Belarus

We observe on the satellite map of Polotsk exactly how the buildings are located on Sushkova and Uspenskaya streets. Opportunity to see the entire territory of the district, streets - Gagarin and Mironova, squares and lanes.

The satellite map of Polotsk presented here online contains photos of buildings and houses from space. You can find out where the street begins. Kuibyshev and Bogdanovich. Using the search service Google, you will find the desired object in the city. We advise you to change the scale of the scheme +/- and move its center in the necessary direction, for example, to find the streets of Polotsk - Stroitelnaya and Leningradskaya.

Squares and shops, buildings and roads, squares and houses, Vologin and Zodchego streets. The page contains detailed information and photos of all objects. To find the necessary house in real time on the map of the city and the Vitebsk region in Belarus.

A detailed satellite map of Polotsk and the Polotsk region is provided by the Google Maps service.

Coordinates - 55.48,28.77

It was built along the Ushacha River to cover the Vitebsk-Smolensk direction from Poland. But in the summer of 1941 it had to be used in battles with the German tank group of Hermann Goth. Goth suggested taking Minsk by way of super-deep coverage: through Glubokoe, Postavy, Polotsk and Beshenkovichi to reach Orsha! But Hitler insisted on a less risky coverage of Minsk: through Traby and Molodechno to reach the Smolevichi, which was done. When the 19th Panzer Division ran into stubborn Russian defenses near Trabami, Hoth sent the tanks into its deep coverage towards Polotsk. As a result, the 19th Panzer Division, without meeting the Soviet troops, passed along good roads through Glubokoe and Postavy for about 200 km.

On June 27, her forward detachment reached the crossing at the Ushacha River, and was noticed by an observer of a pillbox standing near the village of Kutnyany. The enemy was immediately struck by a powerful blow from Major Kolokolov's howitzers. The Germans, who traveled as much as 200 km without a fight, were punished for their carelessness: some died, while others were captured.

Grigory Kuzmich Kolokolov later recalled: “It is difficult to say which of the Germans then managed to carry their legs away. The officers and soldiers of the observation posts, not meeting a single shot from the enemy, went to see the results of their collective labor. Small groups of Germans who survived from our artillery fire almost managed to dig trenches for themselves during this time! They were so frightened that they surrendered without any resistance. "

During interrogation, the prisoners showed that they did not expect to meet resistance here. They were going to seize the bridges across the Western Dvina in Polotsk and hold them until the main forces approached.

Meanwhile, thanks to the delay of the Germans in the battles on the Minsk fortified area, fully equipped rifle divisions from Udmurtia, Perm and Bashkiria managed to arrive in the Polotsk region. The position of the Polotsk fortified area was occupied by the division of Colonel Alexei Ivanovich Zygin, which arrived from Chelyabinsk.

In the area of ​​the village of Latyshki, three German scouts swam across the Ushacha River. Not finding a camouflaged bunker on the field and having established that there were no Red Army soldiers in the village, they gave a signal to their own that the path was clear. A German detachment of infantry with a cannon crossed the river. Entering the village, German soldiers drove all the inhabitants outside its outskirts. Having separated the men of military age from the villagers, the Germans drove them to the river. A resident of this village D.V. Tolochko later recalled: “Suddenly a command was heard, and the strangers opened fire on the men with rifles and machine guns. They fired explosive bullets. Among them was my daddy - Vasily Markovich Tolochko, 43 years old. But he dived into the water a moment before the shooting and swam away. The remaining 28 people were killed.

Then the Germans began to set fire to the houses. In the outer hut, a soldier found a baby in a cradle and carried him out into the street. The child's mother rushed to him, but she was shot. The victim was taken by the arms and legs, rocked and thrown into the fire. And the German with the baby went up to the crowd of women, asked something, and then gave the child to one of them. "

The further development of the tragedy was stopped by Soviet artillery, which opened fire from the direction of the village of Merugi. Suddenly, the pillbox, which had been silent before, struck with a machine-gun burst. The Germans, under cover of a smoke screen, tried to attack him. But every time they went up to attack, machine-gun fire forced them to cuddle to the ground. The enemy was also not helped by the direct fire gun. The outcome of the battle was decided by the attack of the battalion of Captain Kalashnikov. Having lost up to 15 people only killed, including one officer, the invaders retreated towards the village of Farinovo.

On July 3, 1941, pulling up the main forces, the 19th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht resumed the offensive. Having met a powerful rebuff in the zone of Polotsk pillboxes, Herman Goth turned the tank division around to the town of Disna. Instead, the arriving 18th Motorized Division (an infantry division moving on trucks) took up the assault on the pillboxes. At the critical moment of the battle, Alexei Zygin, who led the defense of the Polotsk fortified area, even left the observation post to personally direct the battle. All attacks of the storming men were repulsed. Goth stepped up the onslaught by bringing in the 14th motorized division, which had arrived from near Minsk. Then Zygin, having created a mobile detachment of a large number of trucks, cannons and an infantry battalion, began to transfer it to the most dangerous areas of the defense. It was commanded by Captain A.I. Kochnev. This detachment was especially helpful when unblocking our pillboxes surrounded by the Germans.

Late in the evening, a combat group from a mobile detachment under the command of political instructor M.I. Kargopoltseva arrived at the village where the Germans were going to spend the night. Some of them laid down their arms and carelessly swam in the lake. Battery commander Agapetov prepared data for firing, and his guns opened fire. The Germans and their military equipment were destroyed.

From the first days of fighting in the Polotsk fortified area, the commander of the 152-mm howitzers battery, senior lieutenant Fyodor Andreevich Demidov, became especially famous. Even before the war, he was awarded the Order of Lenin for saving him from the fire of the collective farm harvest. Now, with the fire of his powerful howitzers, he destroyed the enemy who trampled on our land. His colleague GK Kolokolov recalled Demidov: “He was a very brave and knowledgeable commander. His howitzer battery caused a lot of trouble for the Germans. He died under the following circumstances. At the water tower of the Farinovo station, the Germans equipped an artillery observation post (NP). From its height, our positions were clearly visible to a depth of 3 km. The tower was a fairly solid structure, and it is very expensive and unpromising to destroy it with artillery fire from closed firing positions. Therefore, Demidov volunteered to destroy it with fire ... direct fire! But this was very dangerous, since with such a fire the enemy would notice the howitzer and try to destroy it. Despite this, Demidov personally led the firing of a 152-mm howitzer and with only six shells destroyed the tower, and with it destroyed the ill-fated NP. Unfortunately, the Germans spotted where the fire was coming from, and opened strong mortar fire at the position of Demidov's howitzer. Our glorious artillery hero died from the rupture of one of the mines. This was our first heavy loss. They buried him in the shade of centuries-old pines not far from the firing positions of his battery. "

On July 4, the 19th Panzer Division managed to cross the Western Dvina and capture the bridgehead at Disna. Parts of three of our rifle divisions tried to shoot down the Germans in the Dvina. But they couldn't. To break the resistance of the defenders of Polotsk, the Germans fired at their positions from artillery and bombed them from the air for two days.

On July 7, about 30 German tanks of the 19th division went on the offensive. All day, a battle was going on at the edge of the forest east of Disna. Zygin's fighters repulsed enemy attacks and even captured one tank and two armored cars, including them in their mobile detachment. On July 8 and 9, the Germans tried to break through at Borkovichi. Their fierce attacks were repelled thanks to the presence of a large number of shells. Lieutenant Syrovatsky wrote in his diary that in two evenings only one of his batteries fired 442 shells at the enemy.

On July 9, the German 20th Panzer Division broke into Vitebsk. There was a danger of encirclement of the defenders of the Polotsk fortified area, but they did not retreat from the strip of pillboxes. Then about 100 German tanks attacked in the Borovukh direction. Fighting broke out in the points of Zaruchevye, Zalesye, Oserotki, and Makhirovo. Under the influence of heavy enemy fire, our units had to leave part of the pillboxes of the first line.

On July 10, near Mehelevo, the Germans managed to block 6 pillboxes, blow up 2 and move about 100 tanks to Gorodok. On the same day, the Wehrmacht infantry divisions began to approach the battlefield. Two of them crossed the Western Dvina at night. On July 11, they attacked pillboxes near Borovukha-1 and helped the 19th Panzer and 14th Motorized Divisions in the attack on Nevel.

These days, the battle for Smolensk was already beginning, and the defenders of the Polotsk fortified area still did not surrender, drawing on significant forces of German troops. As a result, 16 German attacked 6 Soviet divisions in the Polotsk area! (For comparison, in the army of Paulus, which in August 1942 will break into Stalingrad, there will be only 13 divisions). And while our troops even managed to attack! So the part of Colonel T.P. Miloradov attacked the ferry near the town of Ulla, destroying up to 50 enemy trucks. At the discovered airfield, about 30 German aircraft were disabled. Herman Goth later wrote: "The advance of the 18th motorized division from Ulla to Gorodok was delayed by an attack by the garrison of the Polotsk fortress on its rear."

The Wehrmacht infantry divisions, which had approached on foot, began to prepare for the decisive assault on the Polotsk fortified area. Artillery was delivered to the position, including 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, which had a high hitting accuracy. The reconnaissance carried out by the Germans showed that the Soviet positions were well camouflaged, had anti-tank gouges and barbed wire obstacles. Trenches were dug between the pillboxes for defenders from rifle units.

On the morning of July 15, the artillery of the 6th Infantry Division opened hurricane fire on the pillboxes near the village of Gomel. They beat 152 guns from 37-mm anti-tank guns to heavy 210-mm mortars and special 250-mm guns. The main fire of the German artillery was concentrated on two pillboxes of the first line. Within an hour, dozens of guns shot them point-blank. According to the recollections of Lieutenant Heinrich Gaape, it was surprising that the Russian concrete bunkers continued to stand in this hellish fire.

At 5 in the morning, the guns transferred their fire deep into the defenses, and assault groups went on the attack.

To the amazement of the attackers, one of the pillboxes of the first line immediately opened machine-gun fire. He was supported by the pillboxes of the second line and even the regimental artillery of rifle units! The assault dragged on. Only after destroying our soldiers in the trenches, the German assault groups were able to get close to the pillboxes and begin to destroy them. The pillbox garrisons fought to the last. The Germans, using flamethrowers and explosive charges, dealt with five concrete bunkers by noon.

In this sector, our defenses were broken. The German units that stormed the pillboxes to the left of the village of Gomel did not achieve success. All their attacks were repulsed.

However, the offensive on Nevel, launched by the Germans on July 13, could not be stopped by our units. Bypassing Polotsk from the north, the 19th tank and 14th motorized divisions of the Wehrmacht rushed to Nevel. On July 15, the Germans cut the Polotsk-Idritsa railway and even captured the left-bank part of Polotsk. Columns of German trucks with fuel and ammunition necessary to capture Smolensk immediately moved through it. On July 16, tanks of the 19th division broke into Nevel, and the defenders of the Polotsk fortified area were threatened with encirclement. The command allowed Alexei Zygin to begin the withdrawal of troops to Velikiye Luki. Their retreat was covered by the battalion of Captain Kochnev and several garrisons of machine-gun pillboxes. These heroes did everything they could, holding their positions until the evening of July 19!

On July 21, during a night attack, Zygin's units managed to break out of the encirclement along with equipment and heavy weapons. For the skillful leadership of the Polotsk fortified area, personal courage and the successful withdrawal of units from the encirclement, Alexei Zygin was awarded the Order of Lenin and he was awarded the military rank of "Major General". A.I. Kochnev - for the successful cover of the withdrawal, courage and courage.

The Polotsk fortified area, built to contain the Polish army for 14 days, was able to detain the Germans for 22 days! Thanks to this, it was possible to drag out the Smolensk battle until September 10. After its capture, the Germans had to turn to the Ukraine at all in order to break the defense of the Kiev fortified area of ​​the "Stalin's Line". Fighting there continued until September 26, 1941.

Germany could not defeat the Soviet Union in a protracted war, so it relied on lightning war. But because of such protracted battles on the fortified areas of the "Stalin's Line", the blitzkrieg plan, designed to capture Moscow by August 25, finally failed.

And although the Wehrmacht will continue to take one Soviet city after another in October and November 1941, the war between Germany and the USSR will ultimately be lost.

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Polotsk- the oldest Belarusian city, which is associated with many historical events. Polotsk was founded in 862. It was formed on the banks of the Dvina and for many centuries was a trade center through which "the way from the Varangians to the Greeks" passed. Today, 83 thousand people live in Polotsk.

There are a lot of attractions in the city, so tourists constantly come there. The main building of Polotsk is St. Sophia Cathedral. It was erected in the 11th century and since that time has gone through a lot in its lifetime. The interior of the cathedral is amazing. The frescoes on the walls of the cathedral are especially beautiful. One of them is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

Another unique religious building of the city, its spiritual center is the Savior Euphrosyne Monastery. It is within the walls of this monastery that the greatest shrine of the Belarusian land is kept - the relics of Efrosinya of Polotsk.

In addition to Orthodox buildings in Polotsk, numerous monuments to famous people of Belarus have been erected on the streets of the city and interesting museums have been opened.